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Things To Do: The first real giant
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  • After a loooong trip back through the Yosemite National Park, starting from Mammoth Lakes, southbound through the California plains towards Fresno and from there, finally to the Park, we finally entered the forest. Excitement grew has the forest itself grew close.
    We could'n wait to see those well-known red giants.
    We finally stumbled into this one , that actually are two twin sequoias.
    The story of this encounter in the next tip

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    Things To Do: The encounter
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  • When we parked in front of the two trees just shown, leoleo (Vt member tishomingoblues) jumped out of the car running towards the trees.
    The visual effect was strange, because I saw her running away from the car and getting smaller, smaller at sight because of distance. She was so far away and didn't reach the trees yet. At that moment I realised the real size of those plants. Incredibly huge.
    This pic, instead is her to show the size if compared with a person

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    Things To Do: Out of our own environment
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  • Sequoia National Park - a stupid man from town
  • a stupid man from town
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  • This is when you see if a man comes from town or countryside.
    After having met the first giants, when entered the forest in search for more, having seen another great Sequoia in the distance (how is possible to miss them?).
    We reached it, and we were excited if that one was not too big if compared with the rest of the "show" we would have seen later.
    I embraced the plant to make this pic and got my shirt stained! Stupid engineer from town!

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    Things To Do: Towards the General
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  • Continuing along the road (me with the stained shirt) we finally reached the General Sherman area.
    The parking lot was in a mess because works were in progress to improve and probably enlarge the acceptance capability here.
    The sight itself was actually worse because of people working and machineries.
    You will se nothing of that in my pictures, anyway.

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    Sherman Tree: The General Sherman Sequoia Tree
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  • This is the main course of the park, the General Sherman Sequoia Tree in all its magnificence.
    What can I say? Embarassing.
    Never seen anything like this, never imagined anything like this.
    Nor I'm able to describe the scene, bad writer, possibly. But the only thing I can say is that this is a thing to see being there, not in a picture.

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    Things To Do: Me and Him
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  • Sequoia National Park - Me and the General
  • Me and the General
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  • I'll try to do my job, anyway.
    This picture shows me and the General Sherman Sequoia tree.
    OH well! Look better! I'm there! Can you see me! Hellooooo!!! I'm the small insect at the bottom of the tree.
    Well. I tried. Forgive me, it is not me that I'm a dwarf, it is Him that is a giant (or maybe both?)

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    Things To Do: I'm a stubborn old-style engineer
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  • Let's try again, can you see me now?
    I'm stubborn, and maybe I succeeded in showing myself in front of the General Sherman Sequoia tree.
    The thing I must say now is that I was about 10 meters ahead of the tree, and so the tree in even bigger than it appears here.
    The tree is surrounded by a large fence that keeps visitors away from th grass, because sequoias' roots grow close to the surface and may be damaged by foots.

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    Things To Do: The General Sherman
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  • Sequoia National Park - Sherman perspective
  • Sherman perspective
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  • This is taken exactly below the tree, which owes its name by a Civil War Veteran.
    I took the idea to take this picture from a japanese guy with a megacamera.
    He appeared as one that was able to take good pictures so we asked to take one with my camera. He started joking us shouting "So! Ready ONe! Two! Four! Seven!..." and so on. He took ages to take that pic, and the result was that half the image shows terrain. Stupid man!

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    Things To Do: Inf oabout the General
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  • Sequoia National Park - Another view of the site
  • Another view of the site
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  • Some infos about the General Sherman.
    This huge tree is the largest living being on earth.
    This is not the tallest tree here, but the largest. It weighs about 1300 tons, it is almost 90 meters tall and its age exceed 3200 years.
    The General was here already when no civilization was present, even the most ancient middle-america ones. Only the first colonization, coming from Asia, dates back to an age older than the birth of this monster.

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    Things To Do: A dead Sequoia
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  • These beings resist and become so big and old thanks to one single factor: they grow fast.
    Their immense size allow them to resist fires and other accidents. The only thing that may kill them, together with the Man, is the structural collapse.
    In other words they grow so big that their structure is not able to sustain the incredible weight anymore, and so they crumble and die.
    Here leoleo sitting on a dead sequoia being photographed by a friend.

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    Comments for shivan about Sequoia National Park
    RedEaredPanda Mon Mar 6, 2006 09:28 UTC
     thanks for sharing your beautiful pictures ans excellent tips with us..
    chewy3326 Wed Jan 25, 2006 19:35 UTC
     Good page on a great park! Sequoia National Park is one of my favorites, you have a lot of good photos and tips on it!
    JosM Sat Feb 12, 2005 09:29 UTC
     Giant pics :-) and fun reading!
    sim1 Sun Oct 10, 2004 12:58 UTC
     Great page Nicola! Fun to read and beautiful photos! Those Sequoia trees are so amazing. I loved Seqoia Park, absolutely worth the visit! :-))
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