From left to right: (1) The General Sherman Tree, (2) Sequoia trees
16/07/2010, 7:30 clock, Oakhurst Shilo Inn Suites
we go the next day north of Death Valley out there and the objective promises change: it rather than wait the valley of death, the largest living creatures on the planet, the Sequoia trees. Unfortunately, the navigation device in the Sequoia National Park (Http://www.nps.gov/seki/) no clear targets and so we decide to retract the south in the park. From there, we want to go to the General Sherman Tree, the largest of all the Sequoia. Rewarded
we are for this decision with a beautiful landscape, punished with a very curvy road and later with the realization that there is no continuous connection within the park. We need to get out to the park for the great sequoias that grow in the south of the park does not appropriately enough, to go again. This costs much time and so we spend almost all day in the car.
It is also found that the planned arrival time, which we Navi provides, on winding roads is waste. It expects general speed limit, but has not been programmed, the number of individual panels 25 or 35 mph and goes from a car that bangs through 55 mph on mountain roads. I heave the Dodge by force through the corners and ignore any possible speed limit, but the race against the Navi I lose almost a matter of hours.
then we come late to almost 2000 meters at the giant trees, and are a little disappointed. Great you know, but sooo big again maybe not. The spruce in the garden of my parents' neighbor is not much smaller. And the General Sherman is neither the highest nor the widest tree in the World as we know, but those with the largest volume. In addition, his health approaches that of his namesake, a Civil War general who seems to gradually - but what he is entitled to about 2200 years of life also. But by marketing the Americans have always understood a lot.
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