Sequoia

Stop #2 was spent in Sequoia national park! I was quite impressed by the huge trees all around. I thought that redwoods were the biggest trees in the US, but it turns out that Sequoia trees are more massive. There were giants all around mixed in with the regular trees and made for some scenic driving.

Our first pit stop was Moro rock, which was a half mile climb to some great views of the forest. 

The crew

There were quite a lot of stairs cut into the rock to get up to the top. Alice and Colby were only able to accomplish it because they were promised granola bars at the top. 

Then we made the (longer than expected) hike to see General Sherman, the largest tree in the world! It isn't the tallest or the widest, but it is the most largest all around. It is 25 feet wide, 275 feet tall, and 2,500 years old. 

General Sherman

General Sherman Selfie 

Yeah it doesn't even look big because we couldn't get too close to it. But trust me, it was really huge!

At least wimpy little legged hikers give great hugs.
Actually he wanted to walk the whole way. Unfortunately he always wanted to walk the opposite direction than we were trying to go.

 That night we camped in Sunset campground in Kings Canyon. It was a nice campsite with some (very hard to locate) coin operated showers. 

That night, while Lakin was in the bathroom, we saw what we thought was the most epic meteorite of all time. We later found out that it was Chinese space junk that had entered the atmosphere and was breaking and burning up. It was multi-colored and huge, and it streaked across the sky for a good 20 seconds or so. Everyone in the campsite (except for Lakin) gave a collective gasp. We were in the best possible spot to see it- the space junk went right over us and we were in an area with very little light pollution. 

A picture of the space junk from Google. What we saw was more colorful, but about that big. 

PJ buddies in the morning

The Onesie PJ crew

Blue eyed boys for breakfast

Green shirt boys on a stump