Day 31 May 6, 2015
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| Big Sequoias |
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| General Sherman(note small person at the base) |
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| General Sherman |
After spending our last day in Yosemite yesterday and the
weather sounds like it will stop any travel above 6000’, we visited both Kings
Canyon and Sequoia National Parks.
Taking a few minutes to study the map, we were off to Sequoia. We drove down through the San Joaquin Valley
where both sides of the road are covered with orange trees, cherry trees, grape
vines, peach trees, olive trees, and many more types of vegetables and
fruit. Turning toward the mountains we
began to see in the distance a faint outline of the mountains to come. It didn’t take long on the curvy roads to get
from 250’ above sea level to 4000’.
As
we drove along, we came upon some gigantic yucca plants. We stopped in the visitors’
center to get advice and then we were off.
I thought that the road getting to the visitors center was curvy. Well it was nothing compared to the next 10
miles going to the Sequoias. There was
no question when we arrived at the Sequoia grove. These trees are magnificent. Most of the ones we saw were anywhere from 3’
in diameter to 18’. We had to go to the world’s
largest tree, the “General Sherman”. It
is over 2200 years old, 275’ tall (nearly the length of a football field) and
the diameter is between 32’ and 36’ in diameter. Sequoias are beautiful trees. One thing we heard is that they are mostly
fire resistant. It is hard to find any
Sequoia that hasn’t been in a forest fire.
Since there was a lot of traveling involved in our visits, we were short
on time on our trip into King’s Canyon.
We were able to only get an overview of the canyon. It was very impressive even at that.
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| Oversized Yucca Plant |
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| Kings Canyon |
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