We saw this picture in a National Geographic in the winter. It’s taken in the Sequioa National Park where the giant sequoias grow. We hiked among these giant trees several years ago and were so impressed. Can you find the 3 men who are in the first picture? The guy in the top and the guy at the bottom are easy - it’s the guy in the yellow jacket in the middle who is hard to spot. What amazing trees and what an amazing picture.
I remember several years ago hiking in this same forest in the winter with all the snow. It was a fantastic day, and these trees were truly amazing sentinals. As we hiked in the snow, out footsteps and talk were muffled in the silence. All we could hear were snowballs melting off the branches in the sun and falling into the snow below. We wound through the forest, dwarfed by the tree trunks, barely able to see the tops above without craning our necks. And the trees stole the scene: they weren’t hard to spot even for our inexperienced eyes. The scale and the grandeur of these forest giants are amazing. Their deep rust colored bark , their branches as wide as a man is tall and their trunks which dwarf all other trees in the forest silhouetted against the falling snow. Can it get any better than this?
You can either see the bottom
or the top but not both together.
And, now, as I am reviewing our Sequoia pictures from 3 years ago, I’m putting Sequoia NP on our journey for this year. I’ve just got to get back there.
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