11/6: The guidebook said that if we did a slight detour from the 49, we would arrive in Calveras Big Trees State Park. And there, along an easily hiked trail, we would see some of the largest trees in the world. Well, as the tree lover I am (and seeing as I was the one driving this afternoon), I decided that we just had to go there.
And seriously. I don’t know what to say. They are so big that it’s impossible to take pictures of them.
With any perspective you use, some part of the tree gets cut off and they just. Don’t fit.
It was a very nice evening walk, though, among these giants and the squirrels. We were more or less the only ones still left in the park hiking, which made walking among the sequoias feel even more bizarre.
Beatiful trees. Scary. The giant sequoia is the one spieces in existance today that can reach the largest biomass of any organism on Earth. I believe that.
Katja Malmborg 