Sacatar Trail Wilderness

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Nowadays I'm doing most of my hiking in the southern Sierras and have focused quite a bit on the Sacatar Trail Wilderness area. The trail starts down near Highway 395 in the canyon north of Little Lake Canyon and meanders south above and then into Little Lake Canyon before hitting the crest and dropping into Sacatar Canyon just east of Kennedy Meadows. It's a pretty good climb and what I did was split it into two hikes initially. I did the bottom half as a hike and then the top half as a hike. Since then I've explored the top half and surrounding areas fairly thoroughly. Abundant obsidian flakes make it clear that the area was used extensively by local Native American groups probably during the summer. I've found a few arrowheads and a couple broken spearheads. There are also some grinding rocks and sleeping circles in the area as well. Although I don't separate out the Sacatar pics from the general South Sierra pics, I have a lot of pics posted here:
South Sierra Pics