Hot hot hot!
2017年7月8日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 38 °C
Not sure the kids have ever felt heat like this - 102!
Pit stop at 4000' - still HOT
2017年7月8日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 36 °C
Arrival in Dinuba, CA
2017年7月8日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 39 °C
Kids missed a lot of olive trees and corn - which is to say they didn't miss much! The Best Western has a pool with our names on it though.
P.S. Who's the old guy who photo-bombed my shot here?
Breakfast at Grant's Grove
2017年7月9日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Snagged a sweet camping spot at Azalea campground. Nice ranger helped us out. Now cooking a quick breakfast in the Grant Grove parking lot.
Grant Grove
2017年7月9日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Walked among the giants. We loved climbing through the old, fallen trunks. We named the branches dragon-eating tree (left) and person raising tree hands high (right). Fun fact - General Grant tree isもっと詳しく
Setting up Camp
2017年7月9日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Kids and I are setting up a bit. I taught Franklin how to wave me back into a spot. Samantha is just relaxing.
Big Stump Loop Trail
2017年7月9日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
We went for a four mile hike through an area that had been logged a long time ago before the national park had been set up.
More stumps and bugs
2017年7月9日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
We stood on the Mark Twain stump. People in New York didn't believe the slice of tree brought out in pieces and reassembled was real. They called it a hoax. We also saw a dying tree shedding its barkもっと詳しく
Quick dip at Hume Lake
2017年7月9日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
A beautiful drive over to Hume Lake for a quick dip. Saw the remains of a forest fire from 1955! And - in the distance - snow!!
Dinner and relax
2017年7月9日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Sloppy Joes!
Hot night in van!
2017年7月10日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
We did NOT do very well last night - van was much hotter than air outside! We've talked about strategies and will try some new techniques tonight. Also we all started with our heads at one end with meもっと詳しく
Drive down to King's Canyon
2017年7月10日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Amazing drive down 22 miles - took about an hour. So many great vistas. We could hear the river roaring from way up high.
Zumwalt meadows P1
2017年7月10日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
We stopped at the end of the road and checked in with the rangers. They advised us to take the river loop as the hike up to the misty falls was muddy. Then, as we were getting our packs ready, a groupもっと詳しく
Lunch by Roaring River waterfall
2017年7月10日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
We drove just a few miles and made some freeze dried pasta - not bad. The waterfall was awesome - and loud!
Zumwalt Meadows - getting wet!
2017年7月10日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
We took a turn on the loop that got closer to the river - thinking there would be more shade - but we ended up bush whacking across a very wet meadow and got our shoes soaked. The skies were darkeningもっと詳しく
Relaxing back at camp
2017年7月10日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
First an almost nap in hammock - now we're going to play Boss Monster.
Dinner and entertainments
2017年7月10日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Nice dinner of mac 'n' cheese 'n' hot dogs. Then a little pyro training.
Up and at 'em!
2017年7月11日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Well - not exactly..we slept very well - much better than the night before. I think we got about 11 hours of sleep!
One thing I mention only for posterity- Kha seemed to have packed for home ourもっと詳しく
Climbing Moro Rock
2017年7月11日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
What a fun climb! The kids were a bit nervous - but they soldiered on. Right away the views were amazing and only got better as we went up.
We even found a little friend at the very top of theもっと詳しく
Atop Moro Rock
2017年7月11日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Amazing! The ranger told us it was the best viewing day in many months! So beautiful! I kept switching from the long view of the snow covered mountains to the slope just below - where I was hoping toもっと詳しく
Tree Fun & Housekeeping
2017年7月11日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
While mom may have had the kids shower every day in San Diego, let's just say that Daddy Camp plays by slightly different rules. We went and did laundry at a little general store - but we didn'tもっと詳しく
A change of plans
2017年7月11日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
We stopped at LodgePole and saw a very nice little documentary about bears. WE LOVE THE BEARSIES!! We just want to hug them and squeeze them and kiss their little black nosies!
Sorry - anyway - weもっと詳しく
A quick hike to a waterfall
2017年7月11日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
1.7 miles. That's what the guy told us - and every other sucker we met on the trail who all said (in one way or another) "1.7 miles my ass!" Still - the start of the hike was very pretty andもっと詳しく
Bearsies!!!
2017年7月11日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
And then it happened! We'd seen several bears from the car last summer in Shenandoah - including a baby bear eating a deer by the side of the road. And we saw fresh scat on the trail when we wereもっと詳しく
The rest of the walk up
2017年7月11日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
The rest of the walk was great - so many nice views and the roaring river often near by.
















































































































































That's the Central Valley for you. Had been a huge lake there 100 years agp. On to the Sequoias!