Chapter 380: General Sherman Tree!
As soon as you leave Tunnel Vie and continue on your way, pull over at the Trailhead for Four mile trail and see Upper Yosemite Fall in the distance.
Zhang Feng crossed the meadow to the river and crossed the bridge to Yosemite Falls, an iconic landscape in the valley divided into Upper Fall and Loer Fall.
When entering the valley, it is suitable for a panoramic view from afar, and the trail that Zhang Feng walked when leaving the valley. The entrance to the lower waterfall is near Yosemite Lodge, and the whole journey is 1.7 kilometers, and Zhang Feng climbed all the way to the bottom of the waterfall, which took about an hour round trip. The entrance of the upper waterfall is far away, the whole journey is 11.6 kilometers, Zhang Feng looked at it for a while below, and finally chose to give up. Yosemite Falls is a seasonal waterfall, and it is the wet season in April and May every year, and then it gets smaller and smaller after the flow stops around September, so Zhang Feng doesn't care.
Returning along the Trail, the snow covered the jungle, Zhang Feng played with great interest and threw snowballs, which was really two days of ice and fire~
After finishing Loer Fall, Zhang Feng walked back to Yosemite Lodge for lunch, at this time Zhang Feng began to envy the tourists who brought lunch, and Zhang Feng arrived at the restaurant to find that there were only three sets of pizza, burger, sandwich or fish steak rice, pork chop rice, and cheese Spanish rice......
After eating, Zhang Feng continued to return in the direction of Visitor Parking, passing by the meadows, the river, the Chapel chapel and the waterfall in the distance.
Cross the Sentinel Bridge and see the Half Dome in the distance.
Zhang Feng felt that this place was very recommendable, Zhang Feng drove his car to the Curry Village visitor parking, and then Zhang Feng also checked, if you take the bus, you will get off at the 17th stop. As you keep going, there are two trails to choose from:
Ordinary road, flat, close and easy to walk.
The jungle path is muddy, pebble, and slippery, but the scenery is beautiful and crying.
As a general rule, you should go back the way you came from, unless you have the courage to cross the two large logs in the middle of the road like a balance beam.
The entire trail is 2 miles round trip.
Walking along the green mossy jungle, as beautiful as in a fairy tale, Zhang Feng remembered his trip to Iceland.
After arriving at Jinghu Lake, Zhang Feng saw that the tourists on both sides of the lake could not get along with each other across the lake, and the water in the lake was still very deep.
When he returned, he saw a big log in the river, and Zhang Feng reached the ordinary road on the other side of the river with his excellent hand.
Returned to the road safe and sound.
Zhang Feng's original plan was to go to Vernal Fall, but it was already more than 6 o'clock, and the sky was slowly getting darker, if you went to Vernal Fall, it would take 1-2 hours, and if you walked to the top to see the waterfall, it would take 2-4 hours, Zhang Feng didn't have enough time, so Zhang Feng could only give up with tears and regrets......
Before you know it, the day passed so quickly, and the car stopped at the last attraction, Valley Vie. There are a lot of seemingly professional photographers with long guns and short guns waiting for the sunset, Zhang Feng is not in the mood to watch the sunset today, so he casually clicked a few photos and drove out of the park from the West Gate exit to the hotel in the park.
The next day, Zhang Feng went to the next place, which was 150 miles from Yosemite's West Gate to the American Cedar National Park, which took about two and a half hours.
Admission is $20 per car and includes Kings Canyon.
It was very cold on the mountain, this was Zhang Feng's first feeling.
A good pair of running shoes also needs to be owned, and there are many places to walk in the park, which is Zhang Feng's second feeling.
It's best to bring your own lunch, this is Zhang Feng's third feeling, because the only restaurant in the park has an indescribable lunch, and Zhang Feng is almost about to make a fuss.
The conditions of accommodation are average, which is Zhang Feng's third feeling, but if he plans to stay for one night, Zhang Feng booked Comfort Inn & Suites Sequoia Kings Canyon at that time
Sequoia National Park is a national park in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. Sequoia is the world's largest creature, some can be more than 2,000 years old, although it is not the tallest tree, but when you compare the volume of the trunk, it is the largest in the world.
Founded in 1890, Sequoia National Park is the third national park in the United States to be created, following Yellowstone National Park and the now-closed Mackinac National Park. It covers an area of 1,653 square kilometers. The number of visitors is between 800,000 and 1 million per year. Whitney, the highest mountain in the continental United States, is located within the American Cequoia National Park. Sequoia National Park is famous for its rare species, the giant sequoia, of which the General Sherman tree is currently the largest tree in the world.
Despite its unique and varied natural landscapes, it is relatively under-visited, perhaps because the nearby Yosemite-National-Park is too famous to steal its bounty. Yosemite National Park has its own mountains and rivers that can't be compared, but if you want to compare the giant trees of Mariposa Grove in Yosemite with the giant trees here, you have been to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Canyon is far less crowded than Sequoia, and the comfort of wandering the almost untouched trails of Kings-Canyon is very different from the hustle and bustle of Yosemite Valley.
The main attractions of Sequoia National Park include the Giant Forest, the General Sherman Tree, Moro Rock and the Crystal Cave. The General Highay is the main artery of the two national parks, connecting them to most of the main attractions, but the snow in the park is just beginning to melt this season due to too much snow to enter.
How many ways can a tree be described as big?
Either way, it is impossible to express the feeling of seeing the King of the Sherman Tree, the largest tree in the world. Some trees may be taller than it, some trees may be thicker than it, but no tree can do both, surpassing the General Sherman tree. With a circumference of 103 feet/31 meters and a height of 275 feet/84 meters, the General Sherman Tree soars into the blue sky of the High Ridge Mountains and, more importantly, grows. The amount of wood it grows each year is equivalent to a tree of about 60 feet/18 meters. Isn't that intuitive enough?
In other words, the trunk of the General Sherman Tree is very large, up to 7 feet/2 meters in diameter, which is thicker than the trunk of most trees on the east bank of the Mississippi River. If you think that this American redwood must be the oldest tree in the world for such a large size, you are wrong. In fact, the General Sherman tree is about 2,200 years old (which cannot be verified at this time), and it is clearly not a young tree anymore. But in terms of age, it's only the second-oldest tree, and the foxtail pine in the hite mountains to the east is the oldest tree in the world.