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Chapter 380 General Sherman Tree!

Leave Tunnel View and continue moving forward. Park the car at the Trailhead for Four mile trail on the map. You can see Upper Yosemite Fall in the distance.
Zhang Feng walked across the grass to the river, crossed the bridge to Yosemite Falls (Yosemite Falls) is a landmark landscape in the valley, divided into Upper Fall and Lower Fall.

When entering the valley, it is suitable for viewing the panoramic view from a distance. When leaving the valley, Zhang Feng took the trail.The entrance to the lower waterfall is near Yosemite Lodge. The whole journey is 1.7 kilometers. Zhang Feng climbed all the way to the bottom of the waterfall. It took about an hour to go back and forth.The entrance to the upper waterfall is far away, with a total distance of 11.6 kilometers. Zhang Feng watched it for a while and finally chose to give up.Yosemite Falls is a seasonal waterfall. April and May are the peak water periods every year. After that, it gets smaller and smaller. It doesn't matter after the flow stops around September, so Zhang Feng doesn't care.

Going back along the Trail, the forest was covered with snow, and Zhang Feng played snowball throwing with great interest. It was really a double sky~

After finishing Lower Fall, Zhang Feng walked back to Yosemite Lodge for lunch. At this time, Zhang Feng began to envy the tourists who brought lunch. The hungry Zhang Feng went to the restaurant and found that there were only pizza, hamburgers, sandwiches or fish steak rice. , Pork Chop Rice, and Spanish Rice with Cheese……

After eating, Zhang Feng continued to return to Visitor Parking, passing by the grassland, river, Chapel chapel and waterfall in the distance.

Crossing the Sentinel Bridge, I saw the Half Dome in the distance.

Zhang Feng thought this place was worth recommending. Zhang Feng parked his car near the Curry Village visitor parking by himself. Later, Zhang Feng checked it out. If he took a bus, he would get off at the 17th stop.Go straight ahead, there are two trails to choose from:

Ordinary road, flat, short distance, easy to walk.

The jungle path is muddy, gravelly, and slippery, but the scenery is amazing.

In principle, return to the original road whichever way you go, unless you have the guts to cross the two big logs halfway like a balance beam.

The entire trail is 2 miles round trip.

Walking along the green moss forest, as beautiful as in a fairy tale world, Zhang Feng remembered his trip to Iceland.

After arriving at Jinghu Lake, Zhang Feng saw that the tourists on both sides of the lake faced each other across the lake and could not pass each other, and the water in the lake was still very deep.

On the way back, he saw a big log in the river, and Zhang Feng crossed to the ordinary road on the other side of the river by virtue of his outstanding hand stretching.

Returned to the pony road without incident.

Zhang Feng's original plan was to go to Vernal Fall, but it was already past 6 o'clock, and the sky was slowly getting dark. It would take 1-2 hours to go to Vernal Fall, and 2-4 hours to go to the top to see the waterfall. Zhang Feng Feng didn't have enough time no matter what, so Zhang Feng could only give up with tears and regret...

Before I knew it, the day passed so quickly, and I drove to the last scenic spot, Valley View.A lot of professional photographers with long guns and short guns are waiting for the sunset. Zhang Feng is not in the mood to watch the sunset today, so he snapped a few photos and drove away from the park to the hotel at the west gate exit.

The next day, Zhang Feng went to the next place, which is 150 miles from Yosemite West Gate to Sequoia National Park, which takes about two and a half hours.

Tickets are $20 per car, including Kings Canyon.

It was very cold on the mountain, this was Zhang Feng's first feeling.

A pair of good running shoes is also necessary. There are many places in the park that need to be walked. This is Zhang Feng's second feeling.

It's better to bring your own lunch. This is Zhang Feng's third feeling, because the lunch at the only restaurant in the park is indescribably bad, and Zhang Feng is almost about to make a big fuss.

The accommodation conditions 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
Sequoia National Park (sequoia national park, or translated Giant Sequoia National Park, Sequoia National Park), is a national park in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park are actually two connected national parks. Tickets It's buy one get one free.The American Sequoia is the largest creature in the world, some of which can be as old as 2000 years old. Although the Sequoia is not the tallest tree, it is the largest in the world in terms of the volume of the trunk.

Sequoia National Park was established in 1890 and is the third national park established in the United States after Yellowstone National Park and the closed Mackinac National Park.It covers an area of ​​1 square kilometers.The number of visitors every year ranges from 653 to 80 million.Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in the contiguous United States, is located in Sequoia National Park.Sequoia National Park is famous for the rare giant sequoia trees in the park, among which the General Sherman tree is the largest tree in the world.

Although there are unique and varied natural landscapes here, there are relatively few tourists, perhaps because the adjacent Yosemite National Park (yosemite-national-park) is so famous that it robs it of its abundance.Although Yosemite National Park has its incomparably beautiful mountains and rivers, but if you want to compare the giant trees in Mariposa Grove in Yosemite with the giant trees here, people who have been to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park will probably feel that Yosemite is not comparable at all. Kings Canyon has far fewer tourists than Sequoia. Walking on the almost invisible trails of Kings-Canyon, the feeling of comfort and leisure is also very different from the hustle and bustle of Yosemite Valley.

Major attractions in Sequoia National Park include Giant Forest, General Sherman Tree, Moro Rock and Crystal Cave.The General Highway is the main line of the two national parks, connecting the two parks and most of the major attractions. However, it is inaccessible due to too much snow. The snow in the park has just begun to melt this season.

To describe the size of a tree, how many descriptions can there be?
No description can express how I feel when I see General Sherman, the king of giant sequoias, the largest tree in the world.Some trees may be taller, some may be thicker, but no tree can be both, surpassing the General Sherman tree.With a trunk circumference of 103 feet/31 meters and a height of 275 feet/84 meters, the General Sherman tree shoots straight into the blue sky of the High Ridge Mountains, and what's more, it is still growing.The amount of wood it grows each year is approximately equal to a large 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, reaching 7 feet/2 meters in diameter, which is thicker than most trees on the east bank of the Mississippi River.If you think that with its size, this sequoia must be the oldest tree in the world, you're wrong.In fact, the General Sherman tree is about 2200 years old (currently unverifiable), clearly not a young tree anymore.But it is only the second-oldest tree in terms of age, after the bristlecone pine in the White Mountains to the east is the oldest tree in the world.

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