Time Flies: Sequoia-Kings Canyon camping trip

Went camping during memorial day weekend to the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park. We actually camped in the sequoia national forest. The camping experience was very adventurous...we had some unexpected snow showers and sub zero temperatures and after living in California for a while you forget how to deal with cold weather..But the weather did improve a lot over the next two days..so we had a lot of fun.

The national park is very famous for their huge sequoia trees...General Grant and General Sherman (largest living tree in the world) are the some of the really large ones..Below are some statistics just to give a better idea of their enormous size
- Their height is that of a 27 storey building
- The weight is greater than that of 700 cars
- The width/diameter is greater than that of a 3 lane freeway

Below are some pictures from the trip:

General Sherman...was impossible to get a single picture of the entire tree...

General Grant...third largest living tree

We are actually standing inside the bark of a fallen tree :)

We are 5 of us and we still can't cover even half the tree..We figured that it would take about 25 people with stretched hands to cover the entire circumference of the Sherman tree