We'd planned to take it easy on our third of three days at the cabin, but being so close to the park was just too tempting, and we were on the road by 9:30.
It was about an hour's drive all the way down to the main touristy section, where the world's largest tree [by volume] stands ready to be duly looked at. General Sherman is 11m in diameter (about 6 times L's height) and was once estimated to weigh over 4 million pounds when wet (about 315 male African bush elephants). Its trunk alone is more than half the volume of an olympic-sized swimming pool. What I'm saying here is that it's big.
We wandered along the Congress Trail, named after two sets of closely-packed sequoias called the Senate and the House, plus the very large President Tree. Then we drove back north to eat lunch in a snowy parking lot before heading out on the Tokopah Falls trail. It was a lovely route that followed a stream out to a completely frozen waterfall. Most of the trail was clear and dry, even warm in the sun, but the last section was shaded by high cliffs, and the path turned into packed ice on top of scattered boulders at the end. We passed many people who were clearly not prepared for the conditions, including a trio of squealing college girls in running shoes, but one guy stopped to approve of our appropriate footwear.
We drove back to put our feet up, eat some dinner, and soak in the clawfoot tub.
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