1. April 27 Visalia, CA Sequoia National Park

2. Orange “trees”

3. Oranges

4. The road is open!

5. Kaweah Lake

6. Kaweah River

7. Up and around to the top we go!

8. Marble Fork- one of three off Kaweah River

9. brrrrrr

11. Stream going down – we’re going up! Road we will be on around the next hairpin curve…

12. Still following the stream

13. Wow! How did they get that boulder up there?

14. One thing we have not seen on this trip is native wild animals.

15. Water flows down to feed the streams

16. I believe there have been red bud trees in every state

17. Our goal

18. Yikes

19. UP UP and AWAY

20. Getting up there now!

21. Another Alien Mountain!

22. Whoa! Where’s the Dramamine?

23. Wha’ th werll?

24. The 105 th picture of a waterfall

25. Okay! Here we go. Trees taller, cooler and beginning to see some snow Snow

26. And bigger…

27. Majestic

28. Lots of snow and more on the way

30. General Sherman’s Tree The biggest living thing in the world Doesn’t look like much from here does it? Let’s walk up a little closer…

31. Great big tree

32. Big Foot’s big toe

33. The 1099 th “WOW!” of the day Holy Cow!

34. Right good size tree

35. A tree hugger… becoming one with the tree…

36. Starting back down. This is a view of “seven peaks”

39. Yeah, that’s the road we are going down and around and down and down and around…

40. Get the idea?The road was curvy and there were big trees and mountains and snow and we enjoyed every foot above sea level of it. (about 7000’)

41. Back to the campground and the close of another astonishing day.