Rest day, Lodgepole, Sequoia National Park, California
It's a day off! So we leave the tent and our bags and the kitchen sink and ride, unloaded, to the nearby Sequoia grove's. The first big tree we come across is the General Sherman Tree. The Sherminator is the world's largest tree. Not tallest, largest. It's pretty bloody tall though, 84 meters. But it's its volume that makes it the largest, the biggest, the biggest living thing on Earth. Probably the best size description we read was that the size difference between a mouse and a 6 foot human is the same between the 6 foot human and General Sherman.
We sat and tried to take it all in before small hoards of dorky tourists arrived and we couldn't stop laughing at the rubbish photos they were taking and poses they were making (try straddling the wooden railing, sitting on a bench with legs curled up revealing crotch etc). It's amazing how many people's experience of the tree is through the camera lens. So we moved on, taking a long, slow and very enjoyable walk through the Giant Forest, where we were alone with abundant sequoias, it was magical.
The little black figure in front of General Sherman is in fact Ada
We sat and tried to take it all in before small hoards of dorky tourists arrived and we couldn't stop laughing at the rubbish photos they were taking and poses they were making (try straddling the wooden railing, sitting on a bench with legs curled up revealing crotch etc). It's amazing how many people's experience of the tree is through the camera lens. So we moved on, taking a long, slow and very enjoyable walk through the Giant Forest, where we were alone with abundant sequoias, it was magical.
The little black figure in front of General Sherman is in fact Ada
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