Karol Kaczmarek

As I wrote in the last post, this morning we set out to see what we’ve missed yesterday… giant sequoias! While going higher and higher the temperature was… increasing and the road signs were asking to turn the air conditioning OFF! I suppose driving on the steep roads with A/C turned on may harm your engine, but it’s just a guess to try to explain those signs, I’m not good in engines . Anyone knows the correct answer?

Soon we’ve entered the park and were watching the great views.

There was some road works and road was open only during short 10-minute spots once every hour. We had to stop for a while together with other people willing to see sequoias.

After starting to drive again, it occurred we took the wrong way and accidentaly ended up on the Moro Rock:

Considering this landscape, it wasn’t really that terrible mistake

After couple of miles more we finally reached the Sequoias grove and the trees were really amazing! Sequoias aren’t the highest trees in the world (even that some people may think so, redwoods are on average 20m higher having as many as 100 meters in height), but their really big trunks make them look incredibly huge and impressing!

Lot’s of sequoias we saw were actually half-burned. As we read later, park administration doesn’t even try to distinguish the fire once it starts, as when they were doing it, sequoias stopped to reproduce themselves. Looks like they need some good burn-out from time to time .

Our final stop in the park was General Sherman, not the highest, nor the widest, but the overall volume of it’s trunk makes it the largest tree in the entire world!

On the way back crazy mountain roads made our breaks burning a bit and then we discovered what “L” in automatic gearbox is for . Ehh in the manual one everything is so much more intuitive .

We really enjoyed the park, as apart from trees which we definitely expected to see, it has surprisingly many places offering breathaking views, which is a nice addition! It’s definitely worth to spend a day there!