Kings Canyon & Sequoia

6/10 -- 6/13/2017 

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 Big trees and big canyons -- inspired the separate founding of each of these parks. In 1943 Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks began to be jointly administered.  Located in the southern Sierra Nevada, even though they are less well known than Yosemite,  their dramatic landscape testifies to nature's size, beauty, and diversity--huge mountains, rugged foothills, deep canyons, vast caverns, and the world's largest trees.

Getting there ...

 We started at ~ 9AM (not too early so everyone had enough time to prepare...) and had a smooth 4.5-hour drive with a quick lunch stop in Fresno.  I had checked the weather forecast before the trip, but since the parks cover such huge variations of terrain and elevation, my weather information was as wrong as it could be.  It was much cooler than expected when we arrived at Grant Grove in Kings Canyon, so the first thing we did was to buy a sweater for Iris at the visitor center...

 

 

   

 

 

 


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Going Home ...

It was 10 years ago when we last visited Kings Canyon National Park, and both Linus and Iris only had vague memory about those big trees.  We have been to the national parks in Sierra Nevada (Yosemite, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon) more than 15 times in the past 25 years, and we enjoyed coming back again in all different seasons to have a good family time.


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