April 2019 - Sequoia National Park
We made a late spring trip out to Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks. It had been a snowy winter, so there was still plenty of snow left which made an especially beautiful setting for the giant trees. It's a beautiful place, and the trees are unbelievable!
We made a late spring trip out to Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks. It had been a snowy winter, so there was still plenty of snow left which made an especially beautiful setting for the giant trees. It's a beautiful place, and the trees are unbelievable!
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| A meadow lined with sequoias | A sore neck after a day looking at trees | |
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| WOW what a tree! | ||
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| A fallen seqoia that had had a parking spot cut into it | Among a grove | |
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| Many of the trails had stretches still covered in snow | A yellow-bellied marmot catching some sun | |
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| Another marmot, really posing for us | ||
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| Quite the roots | The trail up Moro rock | |
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| The view deeper into the mountains | The road we drove up | |
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| A western fence lizard hanging out on the rock | Deer next to a very large sequoia | |
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| Another giant | ||
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| Snowmelt streams | ||
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| A _lot_ of rings | Beautiful mountain forest | Trees of all sizes and colors |
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| Walking through a shell of a sequoia tree | ||
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| A panorama was required to get the full height of this tree | A sequoia pine cone - you'd never guess how big the tree is from the size of the pine cone! | |
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| A whole lot of snow in some places! | ||
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| Posing the car in front of a sequoia grove | A water snake in the lake. Yikes! | |
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| Our first bird of the trip - a yellow-rumped warbler | The second - a brown creeper creeping his way up a sequoia |