Yup, more trees! I'm almost done, I promise. Only one more post will follow showing random pics from around the parks (Sequoia NP, Sequoia National Monument, Kings Canyon NP).
Us in the parking lot...
Look how the trees tower over the cars!
The trail map
Sam about to enter "the Fallen Monarche," a tree hollowed out by wild fire a couple of centuries ago...
Sam decided that he wanted Dadda to go with him!
Sam was a little timid, as you can see from his face.
Cool pic
Same pic again
The Fallen Monarche (left) beside a living Giant (right)
From the inside of the tree, looking at Adam getting his history lesson for this trail...
And now for your history lesson :)
This picture really got to me...after reading the above description, I was just overwhelmed that in the time before my Grammie was even born, this log was used at a home, then a work camp and it hasn't changed. I tought, I've got to bring Grammie here, she'd love this! (I guess that thought was still with me that night, when I woke up in tears from a dream and the exact feeling of when I watched my Grammie pass from this world. Oh well, she's much too busy in heaven to marvel at some tree!) (On another side note, this log was first used by white settlers back around the same time as my Mom and Wayne's 'new' house was built...1860!!!)
Sam at the 'bottom' of the tree...
Sam and me...
Inside the Fallen Monarche
Walking thru the narrow part of the tree
The forest mid morning...
A butterfly
Baby sequoias
This 'baby' is over 10 ft tall!
General Grant
The Dyker's in front of GG
Cool pic
Adam and Sam walking up to General Grant
My boy and his bag...
General Grant, the world's 3rd largest single living organism in the world (by volume)
Cool pic of a pink flower
A little history
Adam's co-workers teased him that he'd be arrested for climbing a sequoia...he had to prove them wrong :)
Sam and I are inside the tree!
1 comment:
really amazing...its hard to believe that trees can get that big...especially in California...
Post a Comment