In the northeast corner of Fresno County, California is Lake Thomas A. Edison, about 7 miles long and a mile or so across. Near the southeast corner of Lake Edison the John Muir Trail intersects the Bear Ridge Trail.
Looking south from the intersection you see the upper Bear Creek drainage in a glacier-carved valley. Life has been slow to move back into this area and in many places the creeks run for considerable distances over bare rock. In the rear of the view is Seven Gables crest and summit. It is over 12,000 ft in elevation, with the peak at 13,000. The rocks there were once at the bottom of a valley with unknown peaks rising still higher above. What remains is a horseshoe shaped ridge.
Access to the top is very difficult and often done in the winter when skiing and snow bridges make travel easier. Still, in the summer time it is there ... calling ... calling ...
