Friday, November 7, 2025

Big Trees, 2

Our first experience of Sequoia National Park was on foot, in 1972. On the current trip, we wanted to see the two largest of the Sequoias, Generals Sherman and Grant, and so Sequoia NP was next on our southerly course toward San Diego.

High country

The groves not larger than in the north



But the trees much larger

General Sherman, largest tree on the planet

No mention of Atlanta, the March to the Sea, Savannah...




Oh no! Another sunset! We stayed overnight in one of the NP 
campgrounds...despite the government closure

Next morning, different grove, the General Grant Tree

Third largest



No mention of Fort Donaldson, Shiloh, Vicksburg,
Chattanooga, the Wilderness, Cold Creek, Petersburg,
Appomattox...two presidencies...the greatest military
memoir ever (still in print)


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