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    • Dia 6

      Kings Canyon and Grant Grove

      23 de maio, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 73 °F

      These national parks involve a lot of driving. The roads are narrow, winding, and hilly/mountainous, with speed limits of 15-25 MPH. Grant Grove and the King Canyon visitor center is 2 hours from our cabin, and Kings Canyon itself is an hour further. The terrain is vastly different. The Grant Grove part of the park has some of the largest Sequoias in the world, and is lush, cool, and green. KC is a rugged, more arid valley more than a mile deep (deeper than the Grand Canyon). The Kings River is large and powerful, but looks tiny from the top. The western, more scenic, hikable, and more famous part of the canyon was closed. So we drove as far as we could, where there was a lovely waterfall at our turnaround point.

      Near Grant Grove is Big Stump Trail, winding through forests and meadows to an area that was logged more than 100 years ago. There are several stumps of massive logged trees, a bit of a Sequoia graveyard. Very peaceful.

      Fun fact: If the trunk on the General Grant tree was the gas tank of a car that got 25 mpg, you could drive around the earth 350 times.
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    • Dia 7

      Crescent Meadow and Moro Rock

      24 de maio, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F

      We got up early, driving through the park to the shuttle stop at the road to the Crescent Meadow and Moro Hill area. This road had been closed, but rangers told us that the road would open to shuttles only, starting yesterday. We arrived an hour before the shuttles started and walked around the magnificent giant tree area to kill time and stay warm (40 degrees). Upon our return, we realized that the barricade was gone and cars were entering. (Not the first wrong information we have gotten here!).

      We were happy to drive to the Meadow trails area where we had the trails pretty much to ourselves. We threaded through a hilly pine forest with stands of sequoias and open meadow areas. There is even a cabin made from a hollowed-out, fallen Sequoia. Hale Tharpe is the first documented non-native American to enter the Giant Forest. He arrived in 1858 and had a seasonal grazing pasture in the meadow. Other early pioneers used the cabin, including famous naturalist John Muir.

      The trail that got away - Moro Rock is a granite monolith with steps carved into the granite so hikers can climb up. The stairway is about 800 feet long and has about 400 steps going straight up, mostly narrow and steep. We decided maybe not.

      We had an early dinner at a riverside restaurant near our cabin. Tomorrow we head to Yosemite.
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    • Dia 41

      Fish Camp, California

      2 de maio de 2019, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

      I promise. No gravesites today. Only natural beauty.

      Sequoia National Park beauty.

      Denny and I saw the majestic Redwoods along the Pacific Coast of California many years ago and that memory has stayed with us through the years.

      But we always longed to walk among the Giant Sequoias of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. And today we got to do just that.

      The Redwoods and Sequoias have many differences. The Redwoods are taller (367 feet to 311 feet) but the Sequoias are fatter (22 feet in diameter to 40 feet at the base.)

      We spent the day with General Sherman - the tree. He is 2,200 years old. 275 feet tall. 103 feet circumference at ground level.

      By volume of total wood, Giant Sequoias are the Earth's largest living tree.
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    • Dia 5

      Sequoia - Death Valley

      6 de outubro de 2022, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C

      Dopo aver dormito in un classico motel, come quelli che si vedono nei film, partiamo per entrare nel Sequoia National Park. Qui ci fermiamo in 3 diversi spot per passeggiare tra le sequoie giganti, vediamo la più vecchia al mondo (Generale Sherman), la più alta al mondo e quella con la circonferenza più grande. Sono uno spettacolo, nonostante siamo abituati ad un paesaggio di tipo montano, questo è tutta un'altra cosa. In macchina passando da un punto all'altro del parco ci attraversa la strada un orso, purtroppo non siamo riusciti a fotografarlo, ma è stato un mix di emozioni e terrore, per fortuna è corso subito via. Nel pomeriggio partiamo per un lungo viaggio con destinazione Death Valley. Qui ormai superato il tramonto, a mezz'ora dall'arrivo, senza internet perché non prendeva e con Google Maps che segnava solo le strade principali, troviamo in mezzo alla strada che stavamo percorrendo l'indicazione "Road closed". Presi dal panico torniamo indietro e non sapendo dove andare (le indicazioni scarseggiavano) prendiamo l'unica altra strada possibile, non segnata sulle mappe. Ci addentriamo quindi per una strada sterrata, dove incontriamo degli asini selvatici e per fortuna un'altra macchina nel senso opposto. Tiriamo giù il finestrino, chiediamo indicazioni, scopriamo che sono una coppia di italiani che avevano lo stesso nostro problema in senso opposto, ci dicono di aver appena incontrato un ranger, che siamo sulla strada giusta e di non disperare. Gli ringraziamo, andiamo avanti e per fortuna ritorniamo sulla strada principale e arriviamo al nostro hotel. Nota a margine: per fortuna avevamo fatto il pieno di benzina, perché anche i distributori scarseggiano nella Death Valley.Leia mais

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