Sequoia National Park

Yup.  That is a grove of some of the largest organisms on the earth.  If you look close at the base of the tree on the right, you'll notice my mom and myself posing together.  Mice: normal tree as I am: that sequoia.  Yup.  I did just pull out the SAT lingo in this post.  That is the only way I have to express the feeling of standing in that grove.  Let it blow your mind.

Sequoia National Park has all of the wonders of other national parks (Yellowstone, Yosemite, Glacier, etc) like wildlife, rivers, rock formations, mountains covered in pine trees... but it also has these redwoods.  There is way more to do and see than we could do in an afternoon, but it was well worth the trouble to go.

Dale and I also climbed the last 400 feet to stand at the top of a mountian the size of Mt. Whitney.

That was exhilarating.

We also saw a mother bear and two cubs playing in a tree and unbelievably huge boulders forming the path of a river.