General Sherman Tree Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park

After a nice comfortable sleep we got showered and dressed we checked out of the room and I had my first mind blank of which side of the road I should be on. What? It was the morning. We pulled into a shop and got some supplies for the journey.
I took the first leg of the journey, as we are heading in land we had to wave goodbye to the …

General Sherman Tree
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... it is still bent where the bear chewed it. After returning to the car, we drove on to see some famous trees. The General Sherman tree is the largest non-clonal tree in the world. Not the tallest or widest at the base but the largest by volume. It's ...

... go find the General Sherman Tree, (The largest tree in the world by volume).  We found out that the General Sherman Tree's trunk was 37 ft in diameter, and 109 feet in circumference.  After that we took a bus to Morrow Rock.  We heard that ...

... et on en voit d’autre a travers des pins. En haut, des sentiers nous font découvrir la foret des géants, dont General Sherman Tree, le plus grand au monde comme volume de bois. Les sequoia géants ne sont pas les plus haut (les arbres de Redwood ...

... of food especially fresh meat etc. its all tins and packets.   We went down a mile or so to the General Sherman tree. This sequoia is taller than the General Sherman but not as big (volume wise). There were two bus loads of German and French ...

Im Sequoia NP kann man entweder den General Grant Tree in Grant Grove bestaunen (20 minütiger Spaziergang) und/oder das Museum General Sherman Tree in Giant Forest besuchen. Man fährt ca. 2 Stunden durch den Park. Ich hab davon nicht allzu viel ...

... the Great Western Divide. It has an elevation of 6,725 feet. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Sequoia-National-Park/blog-106878.html This view would have been mine & Terri's first look at mountains west of the ...

Established in 1890, I have spent many many wonderful days and weeks over the years in Sequoia National Park. This time, however, we were very surprised! To backtrack, in planning this visit to the USA we had to take into account the ...

... makes its trunk grow wider even if it isn't getting taller anymore...these kinds of trees are called monarch sequoia.  In the grove where the General Sherman Tree is located, we saw a deer with her baby.  It was pretty small and bounced off ...

Pardon the pun.  I saw that on a sign here and liked it.  Today we spent exploring Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and it was the most stupendous sight.  The giant sequoia trees are unbelievable.  They don't seem real ...

... nbsp;people and knowingly suggested we head in that direction. We saw a bear (they are all American black bears in Sequoia National Park) sitting not 2 metres from the path eating flower heads and as it was happily munching away it didn't mind us at ...