We started our tour of Sequoia National Park.
Our first stop was for a quick view of the Redwood Grove of giant sequoias. The world's largest grove of Sequois in the park (the grove is in the foreground of this photo).
From there it was a quick stop for a one mile hike to see the Sherman Tree.
Same bear warning we saw yesterday.
This was a well travelled paved path to the giant tree but half way to the tree, there he was on the path!
Didn't seem to be too bothered by the humans and quietly lumbered his way into the woods.
Walking quickly, we had a look at the largest living thing in the world, The Sherman Tree.
We climbed back up the hill to the car and headed to Moro Rock (not Morro Rock).
This proved to be the big test for the acrophobic (Chris). A steep 1/4 mile climb up the spine of a huge granite dome to the 6725 ft elevation.
A little coaxing and she made it to the top.
Some great panoramas.
The road through the park. Lucky to average 25 mph.
A view looking up at Moro Rock from down there..
After the climb, we did a 3 mile hike on the Crescent Meadow Trail.
We passed by the Tharp Log, the original tree house!
Now it was time to leave the park and move on to Palm Springs. The drive out of the park took a while due to the twisting roads until we got to Visalia CA. From here to Bakersfield, nothing but huge market gardening and fruit farms. Luckily it was Sunday and we managed to negotiate the freeways of the LA area without traffic jams although it was still quite busy.
We got to Palm Springs CA at around 8:00 pm and checked into a Marriott Courtyard with an in house bistro and good internet connection which allowed me to update the past few days activities.
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