Day 7...

Today we headed down to the Sequoia part of the Kings Canyon/Sequoia NP.

Previous day was spent up in the Kings Canyon part of the NP. We watched a movie on black bears and a movie on the reconstruction of the General Sherman area. In the early stages of the park they had over 200 buildings and it was made with some of the most awful materials know to earth, asbestos etc. The before and after pictures are like night and day... the park looks like it was always this way…so natural.

Here we also climbed up to Moro Rock... which had extreme heights... 400 granite steps up... so yes I did count... most of the way with the kiddos each shouting out what number they were on I lost track in the 300s. Towards the end it could have been 4000 steps.

I loved these flowers that grew from the rock ledge...

I didn’t think I had a fear of heights but I was so not looking down over the edge.

Here’s the view from the highway of Moro Rock... hard to believe we stood on top!

We also saw the biggest living Sequoia, the General Sherman. So big that I could not get the shot of the entire thing even with me getting as close as I could to the ground.

It is as tall as the Statue of Liberty and if you laid it down it would be just 9 yards short of a touchdown. Truly wow... just overwhelming.

The Congress Trail we walked along has some of the largest Sequoia in the forest (again I took a picture I think of every single tree... with mouth completely opened in ahh).

As we were rounding the corner of the trail we came upon some hikers that had just walked back slowly from seeing a bear cub and a Mama bear nowhere in sight. We sat and watched the cub for a bit (at a safe distance) and watched him settling into what looked like a nap.

We decided to do the same and go back the way we came and leave “Little Bear” to snooze. We LOVE this park and wished we had a few more days to explore and hike. Kiddos also earned another badge...