On Wednesday, my brother and I traveled up to Redwood National Park and the surrounding state parks, just about as far north as you can go in California before you get to Oregon. We camped that night up on a cliff above the Pacific Ocean. It was a free walk-in campsite, which we were especially grateful for as for some reason all California state parks charge an outrageous $35 just to pitch a tent for the night. Below is the first round of pictures from the park(s), and I intend to post more.
Just after entering the national park, we pulled over in the morning fog to walk on the beach a bit. Both of us dared the waves to wash far enough ashore to get us wet. I won, Cody lost. He waited a bit too long when one was coming right at us and got his feet and pant bottoms wet. I ran, and got away.
We drove down into this valley and hiked a few more miles into the bottom of it to walk amongst some of the most ancient and largest trees the park has to offer. Some are as old as 1,500 years! To put that into perspective, the oldest would have been saplings when the Franks and Visigoths were fighting for the control of France after the collapse of the Roman Empire.
You could live in this tree. Something big and mean (like a bear or mountain lion) probably does.
Looking up.
Thats me standing in the middle of the "Tall Trees Grove". Perspective.
Just after entering the national park, we pulled over in the morning fog to walk on the beach a bit. Both of us dared the waves to wash far enough ashore to get us wet. I won, Cody lost. He waited a bit too long when one was coming right at us and got his feet and pant bottoms wet. I ran, and got away.
We drove down into this valley and hiked a few more miles into the bottom of it to walk amongst some of the most ancient and largest trees the park has to offer. Some are as old as 1,500 years! To put that into perspective, the oldest would have been saplings when the Franks and Visigoths were fighting for the control of France after the collapse of the Roman Empire.
You could live in this tree. Something big and mean (like a bear or mountain lion) probably does.
Looking up.
Thats me standing in the middle of the "Tall Trees Grove". Perspective.
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