Sequoia National Park to Hoover Dam

Beauty in Sequoia National Park

Sequoia Trees

They grow up from a seed the size of a dill seed

View of Sierra Nevada Mountains from Moro Rock

We Were Way Up There!

Driving to Sequoia National Park yesterday, we drove by groves of orange trees.  So we could see green again.  At Potwisha Campground we were surrounded by steep peaks, but most of them were green except for rock out-croppings, and the distant Sierra Neveda peaks.

This morning we drove up and up from 2,500 feet elevation to about 4,000 feet at the museum where some of the first giant Sequoia trees were standing.  We had to look up 250 feet to see the top of many of those Sequoias.  In the afternoon we boarded some shuttle buses and did some hiking from drop off points.

Moro Rock looks like a bald granite head on one mountain peak.  We walked way up there to the top—6,725 feet up!  I kept thinking that the railing and stairs would stop, but they kept going up and around.  While climbing, we could look down in the green canyons and up to the Sierra treeless and snowy peaks.  At the very top of Moro Rock, I saw this fellow, with a hard hat, on the other side of our handrail.  I wondered whether he was a workman; as I knew we tourists were to stay in the walkway.  There he was sitting on a rock, pulling on this rope which was attached to the rail (and to himself).  The other end disappeared over the edge of the rock.  Marlin and I threw out many questions.  Was he climbing up or down the rock?  Was he by himself? How soon would his buddy appear?  Marlin waited with camera in hand to photograph his buddy when he emerged.  I offered him a granola bar and to send them a picture, but he refused both.  So I cheered them and forgot about my conquest of the climb to the top.

So today we were way up high and looking up at God’s creation.  Two days ago we walked and looked down at Hoover Dam marveling at man’s creation.

“So what is man…?”

Hoover Dam as seen from Route 93 bridge

Bridge and electrical towers seen from Hoover Dam