Travel-World Photography
Kings Canyon National Park, located on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada to the east of the San Joaquin Valley, is divided into two distinct sections. The smaller and older western section centers around Grant Grove – home of many of the park's giant sequoias. Among them is the General Grant Tree, 81.5 m tall, 1.4 m diameter 8.8 m above ground, and assumed to be 1650 years old.
The valley is more than 1,600 m deep. There are multiple peaks around 4,300 m, high mountain meadows, swift-flowing rivers, and some of the world's largest stands of giant sequoia trees. Kings Canyon is north of and contiguous with Sequoia National Park.
We visited the park in early July, when the snow melt was at the highest. When returning towards Central Valley, the road we took was not intended for ordinary passengers cars. And along the way, a culvert had been washed away, and I had to do a really high-speed jump with the car to get across. Further on, the road was closed for a while until a work crew managed to dump large rocks towards the river, and thus made the spot passable. And the temperature was 40 C that day!
