BGuthrie Photos: CA -- Sequoia Natl Park

CA -- Sequoia Natl Park:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SEQ_041101_001_STITCH.JPG: This photo was actually created of a scene outside the park. I thought it was a beautiful pass.
2. SEQ_041101_034.JPG: You used to be able to drive through this opening but they apparently rethought the wisdom of that.
3. SEQ_041101_103.JPG: Moro Rock. It's 6,725 feet above sea level. Next to it is mixed conifer trees with Giant Sequoias mixed in.
4. SEQ_041101_126.JPG: These are giant sequoias. Notice the visitor center at the bottom of the picture.
5. SEQ_041101_129.JPG: Again, for scale, the visitor center is hidden at the bottom of the photo
6. SEQ_041101_199.JPG: In the far distance is the Coast Range mountains. They're about 100 miles away. Pollution from the San Francisco area frequently blocks the view in the summer.
7. SEQ_041101_277.JPG: The tall tree in the middle (with the red protective stuff around the base) is the General Sherman Tree. It is the largest living thing on earth. From the sign: The General Sherman Tree stands as the ultimate example of the growth potential of a giant sequoia. Other types of trees are taller, or thicker at the base, but no other living thing on this planet exceeds the volume of this giant sequoia. The General Sherman Tree owes its immense size not to great age (many other sequoias are older) but rather to its very rapid growth rate. For over two thousand years, this tree has survived numerous fires, climatic change and even the coming of modern man. Today it remains not only the world's largest living thing, but also one of the fastest growing. Estimated age: 2300-2700 years Estimated weight of trunk: 1385 tones Height above base: 274.9 feet Circumference at ground: 102.6 feet Maximum diameter at base: 36.5 feet Diameter 60 feet above ground: 17.5 feet Diameter 180 feet above ground: 14.0 feet Diameter of largest branch: 6.8 feet Height of first large branch: 130.0 feet Volume of trunk: 52,500 cubic feet
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Wikipedia Description: Sequoia National Park
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Sequoia National Park is a national park in the southern Sierra Nevada, east of Visalia, California in the United States of America. It was established in 1890 as the second U.S. national park, after Yellowstone National Park. The park spans 404,051 acres (1,635 km�). Encompassing a vertical relief of nearly 13,000 feet (3,962.4 meters), the park contains among its natural resources the highest point in the contiguous 48 United States, Mount Whitney, at 14,505 feet (4,421.1 meters) above sea level. The park is south of and contiguous with Kings Canyon National Park; the two are administered by the National Park Service as one unit, called Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.

The park is most famous for its Giant Sequoia trees, including the General Sherman tree, the largest tree on Earth. The General Sherman tree grows in the Giant Forest, which contains five out of the ten largest trees in the world, in terms of wood volume. The Giant Forest is connected by the park's Generals Highway to Kings Canyon National Park's Grant Grove, home to the General Grant tree among other sequoias.

Front country:

Many park visitors enter the park through its southern entrance near the town of Three Rivers at Ash Mountain at 1700 ft (518 m) elevation. The lower elevations around Ash Mountain contain the only National Park Service-protected California Foothills ecosystem, consisting of blue oak woodlands, foothills chaparral, grasslands, yucca plants, and steep, mild river valleys. The foothills region is also home to abundant wildlife: bobcats, foxes, ground squirrels, rattlesnakes, and mule deer are commonly seen in this area, and much more rarely, reclusive mountain lions are seen as well.

Moving up in the park, we reach an elevation where winter snowfalls determine which plants survive. Here we find the montane forest-dominated coniferous belt, between approx. 5,500 and 9,000 ft (1,676.4 and 2 743.2 m) ...More...
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2004 photos: Equipment this year: I bought two Fujifilm S7000 digital cameras. While they produced excellent images, I found all of the retractable-lens Fuji models had a disturbing tendency to get dust inside the lens. Dark blurs would show up on the images and the camera had to be sent back to the shop in order to get it fixed. I returned one of the cameras when the blurs showed up in the first month. I found myself buying extended warranties on cameras. Trips this year: (1) Margot and I went off to Scotland for a few days, my first time overseas. (2) I went to Hawaii on business (such a deal!) and extended it, spending a week in Hawaii and another in California. (3) I went to Tennessee to man a booth and extended it to go to my third Fan Fair country music festival. Number of photos taken this year: 110,000.
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