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Valley of Death and Tree Generals
... on the ground at our site which did not help settle our nerves. We couldn't leave our campsite soon enough to go to Sequoia National Park, one of the oldest national parks. As soon as we arrived, we saw a small black bear wandering the ...
Day 15 Sequoia National Park
... other side and away. So, 2.5 days here we have now seen 7 bears, that's damned good odds! And there's still tonight and Kings Canyon to go, Today is Day 15, it doesn't seem that we have been away 2 weeks. I think next time it will have to be a ...
Drive to Sequoia NP
... up and updated the blog, it was 10:30. A late start was fine because we only had a 3 hour drive to get to Sequoia National Park. Our plan was to stop at a Wal-Mart in Porterville, CA for groceries and then head to the park. Our GPS took ...
If you go down to the woods today...
Today was fantastic! We went to Sequoia national park to see the giant sequoia trees but we were also lucky enough to see a black bear! The drive into the park is very scenic. The speed limits are very low to prevent bear deaths and at some points are as ...
Big Trees!!! Sequoia Nationa Park
... ) we went for a nice walk through the meadow to find Tharp's log. Along the way we found some huge squirrels, a lot of birds, and bear scat. After a long half-mile hike we made it to Tharp's log. The reason of the location was that a ...
Sequoia National Park
... , nous décidons de partir. Comme nous étions au milieu du parc, nous décidons de prendre la sortie nord-ouest, vers Yosemite et Kings Canyon, ŕ quelques 25 miles de nous. Erreur, car sur ce cote de la montagne le climat est plus froid (la végétation ...
Hunting General Sherman.
... yellow owl t-shirt) and in my head I could hear him saying this line. We were happy to leave town and head into Sequoia national park. Again, like Yosemite, Sequoia National Park was really well run. Unfortunately, due to some road maintenance we had a ...
Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Park
What a great day! We left Yosemite for our drive to Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Park. We drove through Fresno and it was a wonderful city of around 500,000. There were orange groves as far as you could see. We saw some grapes vineyards and lemon ...
We made it to Sequoia National Park
... accent...but Darren told him laughing that we were fine...it was him that sounded different! ha ha It is lovely here and the Sequoia RV Ranch is a fabulous place to stay. The owners are very helpful and the place very picturesque. We camped ...
Snow chains and General Sherman
... Flagstaff so the passes over the Sierra Nevada mountains were closed (probably until April or May!) problem was our first destination Sequoia National Park was directly the other side! We decided to head South where it would be a bit warmer and come round ...
Day 16 Saturday Sequoia to Kings Canyon
... all very confusing as all the guides say there is no Fuel in the Park - which there isn't, it's in the Forest. The Sequoia and Kings Parks and Forests all run into each other here. We stopped at Grant Grove on the way to Kings. There is free Wifi ...
High Sierras here we come!
... and I hit the road on Monday to the Sierra Nevada Mountains, just 4 hours from L.A. There we visited Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Sequoias are the biggest trees in the world. On average, they are twenty feet wide and ...
Day 14 Sequoia National Park
... it. As we were at the tree, a mule deer (big ears like a mule) appeared, hopped over 2 fences and settled itself down by the base of a nearby Sequoia. Obviously a cool spot for it. We continued down on the Congress Trail, it was very peaceful; ...
Day 17 Sunday Kings Canyon to Grant Grove
... . By this time everything had clouded over and there were a few spots of rain. We had been going to spend a second night in Kings Canyon but decided to head back towards Grant Grove instead. Kings is very nice but all the trails are up the side of the ...
Sequoia NP
... dem Ziel plötzlich ziemlich allein im Wald gewesen, als sie ein Geräusch gehört haben. Da es in diesem Gebiet auch Bären hat, haben dann die zwei entschieden, ziemlich SOFORT umzudrehen :-) Bilder aus dem Sequoia folgen, sind dann aber nicht von ...
Day 13 Wednesday Bakersfield to Sequoia Canyon
... but only one could go off to the fire as the other one had to stay and cook! We climbed and weaved our way up and entered the park at 3.45pm, a few showers on the way up, it was a steep climb up to 6000ft, $20 entry fee again, you turn off to ...
Sequoia park
Do Sequoia parku jsme se vydali severní bránou,u které tvrdili na ceduli pod kopci,že je otevřená.Jenže po vyšplhání se asi 120 zatáčkama jsme přijeli k odbočce vedoucí k bráně,kde byla závora ...
Frappés par la foule!
... aux Etats-Unis est plus grand qu'ailleurs. Les arbres ne font pas exception. Aprčs Los Angeles nous sommes allés visiter le Sequoia National Park qui, comme son nom l’indique, se spécialise dans les arbres géants. Le parc peut se targuer ...
Breakfast at Irene's
... wanted to buy sufficient food and stuff for a few days in the forrest, and so we did. Our drive took us to the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park (2 parks in one). Fee $20 per car for 7 days as with all the other parks, and checked into the Centinel ...
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks
... and they dropped us off, had dinner in the restaurant and went home. The next morning after breakfast we headed to Kings Canyon National Park and saw the beautiful views in this area. We had a great time stalking deer - for pictures, walking through the ...
Day 15: Tues July 24, 1962: North to the Sierras
... were always concerned about the car overheating in such situations. Finally, we arrived at the Big Stump entrance to Sequoia National Park & headed to Sunset campground located near Grant Grove Village. There are 4 campsites along the ...
Day 19-20: Sat/Sun July 28-29, 1962: King's Canyon
... up to leave this beautiful campsite. It would be years before the memory of Sunset Campground would fade! We drove east towards Kings Canyon. Although the drive was short, the elevation dropped about 2,000 feet. It was much warmer here than in ...
Sequoia and Kings Canyon
Sequoia National Park We finally left Laughlin and decided to bypass Las Vegas altogether and head straight for the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains to Three Rivers, CA, which is just outside the south entrance to the Sequoia National Park-home ...
Day 16-18: Wed, July 25-27, 1962: Sequoia Giants
... including 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 ...
Big Stuff!!!
... and we havent really even started! After our amazing stay at Yosemite we took a short drive (only 3-4 hours) to the Sequoia National Park. This park is home to the worlds largest tree, not tallest or roundest but largest. They qualify it as largest due to ...
Sequoia National Park
We left the KOA after doing some laundry and some work in their Wifi. We actually wern't going to Kings Canyon, but the park below it which has some of the largest Sequoias in the park system. The GPS had us going the wrong way and we took CA 155 as a ...
Sequoia National Park - or very big trees!
... vines that populate San Joaquin Valley. We then went on to Three Rivers for a break and routine Diet Coke and bagel. We entered the National Park - at first a little surprised to be paying $20 to do so - but soon considered it well worth it. We ...
Sequoia National Park
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 ...
Big red trees
Today we set off from Mariposa leaving Yosemite Park area towards Sequoia national park - a park of huge redwoods. We didn't realise until we started on the road that it climbs up and up and up - right up to 7000ft. We came across a huge fallen tree ...
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