We woke up to snow this morning! At 7300’, Grant Grove
Village does double duty as a snow park in winter, but by mid-April it had all
melted – until today. We hit the road early and quickly came across a car who
had gone off the road due to the slick and snowy conditions. The park ranger
was on the scene first and we were the only other people around. Eben stopped
the car and assisted the ranger with extracting the man from the car,
backboarding him, and loading him into the ambulance.
We wound around curve
after snowy curve of the General’s Highway on a southern route to Sequoia
National Park. There we saw the General Sherman Tree, the world’s largest
living tree (by volume) and it has a circumference of 102.6’ at its base. It
stood among many other impressive sequoias in this grove. The fact that it was
snowing that morning made the grove seem all the more magical. Most the park
remained closed for the winter season, so we headed south out of the park and
went from 7100’ feet all the way down to 1700’ (and from 28 degrees to 61
degrees) at the southern Foothills Visitor Center, where we stopped for a
picnic. After a long drive to Anaheim, we checked into our hotel and prepared
for a big day ahead!
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