Descending the precipitous divide between the King's River and Kaweah you enter the grand forests that form the main continuous portion of the belt.

Advancing southward the giants become more and more irrepressibly exuberant, heaving their massive crowns into the sky from every ridge and slope, and waving onward in graceful compliance with the complicated topography of the region.

The finest of the Kaweah section of the belt is on the broad ridge between Marble Creek and the middle fork, and extends from the granite headlands overlooking the hot plains to within a few miles of the cool glacial fountains of the summit peaks.

The extreme upper limit of the belt is reached between the middle and south forks of the Kaweah at an elevation of 8400 feet.

But the finest block of Big Tree forest in the entire belt is on the north fork of Tule River.