Sequoia National Park - Giant Forest

Giant trees part 2. Today we drove to Sequoia National Park to see General Sherman and Co. The same morning routine: driving through some very bad air quality area, then orange plantations and at the end beautiful mountains. We had breakfast at the visitor center, with some bear proof trash containers. Then we drove all the way up to 2000 meters, in a scenic drive.
After walking up to a giant rock we drove through the Tunnel Log to the beginning of our trail. After seeing the bear warnings everywhere, we put all our food in a bear box, and hoped to find everything very we left once we come back. We walked in a beautiful forest, with giant sequoia trees and other huge pine trees around. At some point we heard some weird noises and thought someone was shooting, but it turned out, it was a tree falling over. It was quite scary seeing it so close (at least the noise scared off the bears potentially lurking around).
We were almost alone in the forest, it was truly magical walking around some 2000 years old trees. After passing by The Senate, Tres Amigos and other named trees we finally made it to the biggest tree (volume wise), General Sherman. It has a diameter of 11 meters and weighs 1200 tons.Leggi altro