The foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains were very dry. There's a lot of air pollution in this part of the Central Valley due to the mountains forming a bowl shape that traps the air.
General Grant Giant Sequoia
The second largest tree in the world with a trunk circumference of nearly 33 metres.
The sequoias are so large they don't seem real. The pines that live amongst them are huge themselves but seem tiny in comparison.
Dead sequoias take decades to centuries to decompose.
This stump is part of a grove that was felled just before the park was created which means it's been dead for more than a century. You can get a sense of how much bigger these trees are compared to the rest of the forest. The pines here are not young trees.
The tyre bubble that caused so much pain.
The road into the canyon.
The river water was so clear.
