Sequoia National Forest

Our first night back in our little tent home was in Sequoia National Forest. It was neat to see the beautiful huge trees of this park and compare them to the ones that we visited in the Redwood Forest; definitely different but powerful all the same. We walked to one of the largest trees in the area called the General Grant, snapped a quick picture, and headed over to Hume Lake Christian Camp, a wonderful place where Taylor spent a summer working and has remembered very fondly ever since! It was neat to see such an important place to him (a place that I have heard countless stories about over the years!!) and even cooler was our special find of a "chair" that he had made from a tree stump and a chain saw during his time on summer staff! He couldn't believe that it was still there (6 years later) and though it was broken he took much pride that it had made it through the years!

We ended up at a site called "Convict Trail" (yikes!) which was free and comfortable and, as we came to find late at night, filled with lots of animals! We still are not quite sure what it was that kept coming to visit our tent, but something was shuffling around and snapping branches all night long!! Taylor chose to believe that it was just a squirrel or something, but I am of the mindset that we had a bear on our hands! Either way, we survived the night and left in the morning for Yosemite to meet up with our travel buddies, Mike and Jessica!!

Guess we needed a little more than the 10sec timer on this one...

 

Broken but still there!

 

by Motsenbocker