Visiting the Worlds Largest Tree - Sequoia National Park, California
The next stop on our trip after seeing the wonderful view at Moro Rock were the giant Sequoia trees in Sequoia National Park. Among these trees is the General Sherman tree which is the by volume largest known living single stem tree on earth!
The tree that you can see in this picture is not the largest of the Sequoia trees, but it still is huge, and I love how tiny I look in front of it!
Before going to the giants trail, which is the trail where General Sherman and many other famous Sequoia trees are located, we decided to walk around in another part of the forest where there were no people around but we could still see some really impressive trees. Look at these two for example:
Me and my roommate for scale!
This forest reminded me a bit of nature in Finland, only that everything seemed to be on steroids here! Look at this pine cone for example, it is not even the biggest one I have found!
Now some of you might be laughing at me for getting so excited about a huge pine cone (which you might not even think is that big) but in Finland the pine cones are not even a quarter of that size! I must admit I think pine cones are really cute, and I remember thinking that I would not at all mind being a squirrel in my next life if I could live in Sequoia National Park!
We also visited Tunnel Log, which is a huge tree that has fallen and made into a tunnel. Maybe you could guess that from the name? ^_^ I think it is quite amazing that we could actually fit to drive through the stem of a tree with our van!! Sadly I do not have a picture of that since I was sitting in the van feeling really excited about driving through a tree, but you can see the magnitude of the log from the pictures below.
And then we finally arrived at the General Sherman tree, the by volume largest living single stem tree on earth! It is not however the tallest, widest or oldest living tree, but it is still huge! It is 83,8 meters (274,9 feet) high, it has a maximum diameter of 11,1 meters (36,5 feet) and it is estimated to be 2300 to 2700 years old!!! Is that not unbelievable?
Can you see those tiny people next to the stem? They look like small ants!
It was impossible to take a picture of the whole tree, so here you have a picture of me with maybe a quarter of the tree!
I also found this cute tree tunnel that I had to take a picture of. This place really made me feel like a child again. So many amazing places to hide or build huts in! I would have loved to play here as a kid and I really look forward to going back to Sequoia National Park when it gets warmer so I can do more hiking and some camping.
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ahh the General Sherman I have hugged that tree :)
Even though it is forbidden to go close to it? ;)
When I was 15 a group from our Highschool took a 5 day 50 mile backpacking trip through the secquoia park. Oh so beautiful Thank you for reminding me of that peace. I must take a trip and visit this magical place again.
@unityeagle this is one of the places I want to take you to see...
I am happy I could remind you of it! I cannot wait until I get to go back there as well, it is just such a gorgeous and peaceful place :) Probably a bit more hectic now with all the tourists, but if you hike with some of the less popular trails you still get to be alone with nature and it is still an incredible place!
When I was a kid growing up it was not forbidden there was not fence around it and you could spend all day alone with the tree. Times have changed and lots more tourists now so I guess they want to protect the base around the tree.
I see, that makes sense :) Lucky you growing up around these beautiful trees! I would have loved to play here so much when I was a kid!
It was a joy. I remember each year we would go to Yosemite for a family encampment they had these little square box houses with canvas roof and a few bunks inside and My uncle would set up his tent and has a blast we brought our bicycles up and rode around the camp grounds and would pick up soda cans and take them to the little camp store and trade them in for candy.... Then go out and play in the river with our parents sitting on the side enjoying the beautiful summer. The late 1970's early 80's were cool times to grow up in California. I am full of gratitude for the time I spent there and you inspire me to go back and visit it again.
That does sound wonderful! Yosemite is also such a beautiful place, it was actually the next stop on our road trip o I'll soon make a post about it. I'm glad I could inspire you to go back and visit :) looking at all the photos I took I definitely want to go back too soon! My mom will visit me in a few weeks and then we might go up there again, depending on how snowy it is in the mountains :)
Be sure to check out the Big old hotel in the valley Awani or something like that can't remember the spelling. But it is a super cool place and I had a friend take me there for my 21st birthday and sit at the head table such a beautiful place. Your mom will love it!!! Have you driven down the big sur coast from Monterey to Santa Barbra? that is the most beautiful drive in California.
Oh cool I'll have to look that up! I haven't driven down the big sur yet but I'm planning on doing it! I've heard that there is some trouble with the road though and part of it is closed. :/
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Sequoia for me it is the most beautiful tree in the world
they are truly beautiful! :)