We thought we were seeing big trees when we were weaving in and out of the groves of redwoods, but the Mari
posa sequoias are HUGE! 
The largest living sequoia has a diameter of 30 some feet...and almost a 100 ft circumference. Not too far from that was the California tunnel tree. Not quite big enough for most cars. The larger tree that can be driven through was another 2 miles back into the grove. Since it was about a mile "uphill" to get to the first tunnel tree, we chose not to do the extended tour to the larger one. It became a "walking" tour on November 1st. Trolley's stopped on Oct 31st. Darn!!!
As you can see, the root structure on this fallen tree is gigantic. You almost miss the folks standing to the left. They're so tiny.
From there we went to the Tunnel view up into the park and caught pictures of the El Capitan, Half Dome, Sentinal Rock, Cathedral Rocks, and Bridalveil Falls...(left to right on the pic).
The falls is in the dark section on the first pic. 3rd pic shows it better.
The pic of us in front of this view almost looks like we had it done in a studio with a mural backdrop.
Another of those views that are so breathtaking, it's difficult to describe. "Ya gotta be there."
Wow that looks AWESOME Jean and Ron. I went to that location when I was approx. 10 years old. I remember that tree that you can drive through. Very cool and beautiful. Looks like you guys are doing great.. Glad to hear it!!
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