Sequoia National Park
More big trees, we love them! Here we saw the General Sherman and Grant Trees, reported as the largest trees on earth. These trees are unreal big. We liked the Sequoia National park better than the Mariposa Grove area in Yosemite because you can get closer to the trees in Sequoia. It is more of a natural setting where you can walk through the forest and sometimes not even detect the trail and ceratinly no paths bordered by fences the entire way. In Seqouia National you can touch the trees and even get inside some of them!
This is a fallen gian t that you can walk through the length of the trunk. This is a picture of Gari at the root end.
That's Steve hanging out inside the trunk reflecting on the size of these amazing trees.
This is some mighty big lumber! Actually the early settlers learned that they coud not use the Sequoia wood because it mostly shattered when it hit the ground as it was cut down.
Looking up!
Down Under in the Chimney Tree.
Inside the Chimney Tree looking up and out...
A cross-section exhibit. The surface was very smooth and flat. Someone worked very long and hard to accomplish that!
Sequoia Cones, they are relatively small. Some of the other fir and pine trees have huge cones.
See the Fox "root sculpture" in this fallen root ball?
This is a close up of the "Fox"
Steve next to the "Fox" root
These trees are huge and amazing. Enough said see the evidence below!
Gari below.
So big
Happy to be there
Way up!
Large fire scar.
Below is the Tharp Log. This Tharp guy returned to this area every year and ran cattle up here while he lived in a tree. I guess that's not so crazy... "we both live in a 40 ft RV, a 40ft RV, a 40 ft RV" (to the Beatles melody of We all live in a Yellow Submarine) :-)
Front Door
The interior of the Tharp Log
Look there goes Tharp now.... no that's Steve
This is a viewing platform for the General Sherman Tree. The Park Service laid in an outline of the trunk bottom so you can get a sense of the girth of this giant tree, It is really hard to fully understand while you stand there.
The Royal Hugeness!
Bigger than big!
A large pair of trees at the parking area.
This is a tree tunnel that has near 8 ft height clearance. I couldn't get Gari to drive her truck through it. It was too close for her comfort.
A couple giants bordering the narrow and winding road out.
A very special place on earth!
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