Winding roads and really big trees

We woke this morning in a not so ominous place, but a cozy cabin nestled into a lovely hillside. Of course to continue our adventure we had to get down that hill and then up and down several others. We got to the main road from our cabin in record time (for some reason it always takes longer going up than down), then we headed towards Kings Canyon. I thought that I would work on this blog on the way, but soon had to stop because the roads again began to twist up into the mountains, slowing us down to 15 miles an hour. Even then I made Shawn stop once because I was feeling nauseous. When we made it to the park, our first stop was Grants Grove which was home to Grants tree, a giant sequoia that has the auspicious position of being the widest if not the largest tree in the world.



After strolling among these beautiful trees, I was feeling better and more or less prepared for what was coming next. Once back in the car we found another narrow winding road that led us to panoramic point. After a short walk we had lunch on a rock with a view of the entire canyon we were about to drive through. People pay a great amount of money for good tables in fancy restaurants, but I wouldn't have traded PB&J on the top of that mountain for any five star eatery.


After lunch we drove through Kings canyon. The canyon was narrower and much more rugged than the valleys of Yosemite, even though they were both cut by glaciers. When we wound down to the bottom, we stopped at beautiful grizzly falls.



Once we wound up out of the canyon again we headed south through the park into Sequoia National Park on the way back to the cabin. This roughly took us through at least 20 switch backs, but was a lovely drive. We were all a little dizzy once we got back to the cabin (via winding cabin road again).


- Posted by Sara from our iPad

Location:Kings Canyon NP