Congress Trail and General Sherman Tree
I went back to Sequoia yesterday and hiked to the General Sherman Tree, and then did part of the Congress Trail loop. I guess it was about a 2 mile hike.
I'm only putting a few photos behind the cut this time, and I have labeled what they are.
As you drive into the Giant Forest (a place where there are a large amount of huge, thousands-of-years-old Giant Sequoia trees), you suddenly start seeing them along the road. I tried to take pictures while driving, but this is the only one that came out OK. I think I was stopped when I took this.
This is the trail head at the General Sherman Tree parking lot, and it was the fanciest trail I have been on in the Park. It drops down rather quickly 212 feet until it is possible to see the tree. It's well paved and wide.
These were trees along the trail. There were many, many huge trees in this forest.
Here it is, the General Sherman tree. It's the biggest tree in the world, volume-wise. There are taller trees.
This is the opposite side of the tree that can be approached from another direction. I got this photo when I was almost done with the loop and was about to catch a shuttle back to the parking lot.
People at the base of the General Sherman Tree here.
At one point on the General Sherman trail, I took off onto the Congress Trail. It goes quite a ways.
It's called the Congress Trail because of the fact they have named trees "The President", "The House", and "The Senate".
This is The President. Not the greatest photo.
Just above The President tree is Chief Sequoyah. He is the person the park is named after, but it's spelled differently. The tree does not lean like this, it's just the way I took the photos.
I suddenly saw a doe and two tiny baby deer cross the path in front of me! It was so exciting. I didn't manage to get a picture until they had started up a hill.
This was on the lower loop trail going back towards the beginning. There is a very old fallen Giant that has been carved through so people could walk through it.
Finally I saw The House. These trees were all bunched together and looked to be about the same size.
Then I found the General Lee Tree.
Nearby was the President McKinley tree.
Some people on the trail taking their photo against a tree.
Right along the trail was this pretty little water fall.
I'm only putting a few photos behind the cut this time, and I have labeled what they are.
As you drive into the Giant Forest (a place where there are a large amount of huge, thousands-of-years-old Giant Sequoia trees), you suddenly start seeing them along the road. I tried to take pictures while driving, but this is the only one that came out OK. I think I was stopped when I took this.
This is the trail head at the General Sherman Tree parking lot, and it was the fanciest trail I have been on in the Park. It drops down rather quickly 212 feet until it is possible to see the tree. It's well paved and wide.
These were trees along the trail. There were many, many huge trees in this forest.
Here it is, the General Sherman tree. It's the biggest tree in the world, volume-wise. There are taller trees.
This is the opposite side of the tree that can be approached from another direction. I got this photo when I was almost done with the loop and was about to catch a shuttle back to the parking lot.
People at the base of the General Sherman Tree here.
At one point on the General Sherman trail, I took off onto the Congress Trail. It goes quite a ways.
It's called the Congress Trail because of the fact they have named trees "The President", "The House", and "The Senate".
This is The President. Not the greatest photo.
Just above The President tree is Chief Sequoyah. He is the person the park is named after, but it's spelled differently. The tree does not lean like this, it's just the way I took the photos.
I suddenly saw a doe and two tiny baby deer cross the path in front of me! It was so exciting. I didn't manage to get a picture until they had started up a hill.
This was on the lower loop trail going back towards the beginning. There is a very old fallen Giant that has been carved through so people could walk through it.
Finally I saw The House. These trees were all bunched together and looked to be about the same size.
Then I found the General Lee Tree.
Nearby was the President McKinley tree.
Some people on the trail taking their photo against a tree.
Right along the trail was this pretty little water fall.