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California, United States Monday, April 22, 2013 Day 1 8 am start packing car 11 am depart to sierra national forest 2 pm arrive at Dry Gulch; check in, unpack, set up 4 pm relax & enjoy nature, have "lunch" 5 pm Have dinner 6:30 pm finalize tents, clean up food outside (bear-proof), relax 10 pm sleep Day 2 8 am wake up, get ready 10 am get breakfast 11:30 am clean tents 12 pm put food away 12:30 pm ...
Zwischen Baumgiganten
... den uralten Bäumen (der Dicke ist 1800 Jahre alt!) jedoch schon abgebrochen oder etwas verkümmert... somit sind sie meist nicht höher als 80 m - was eigentlich auch noch reicht :o) Alleine sein dickster Ast hat einen Durchmesser von 2 m! In der Mariposa Grove verlaufen dann diverse Wanderwege den Hang hinauf und führen an allen wichtigen Bäumen vorbei. Mit "wichtig" meine ich Bäume, die eine spezielle Form haben, aus besonderen Gründen umgebrochen ...
Grand Canyon to San Fran... Cisnero's Inn!
... native Indian lady at the hotel in Williams we hit the road! The drive is pretty easy. We back track our route from last nights drive but its nice to see the views in daylight. We pass lots of farms on the way. Dairy, vineyards for table grapes, raisins and wine and cotton fields just to name a few... When we arrive at Jane's it's the cute house with all the Halloween decorations. We are greeted with big hugs from Jane, her husband ...
Day Ten, Ghost Town
Not a huge amount to report today, as I spent most of it on the road back to California. Which was a pleasant enough journey, but mostly uneventful.
We made a couple of stops, but the only one worth mentioning is Calico, which is an old mining town built in the late 1800's up in the hills. For several years they mined silver, and they made quite a ...
It was a BIG day
... further down the road. The General is 275 ft tall, is estimated to weigh 1385 tons and is 103 ft in circumference. The bark on a Sequoia is 31 inches thick. Because of the thick bark they can withstand fire and some of the trees show that they have lived through 40 forest fires.
After the splendor of seeing these magnificent giants we headed out of the park on Hwy 245, a well maintained road that was 31 miles of switchbacks and sweeping vistas as we made our decent from 7000 ft ...
Amenities
- Swimming pool
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Business Services
- Fitness/Health center
- Free parking