Hiking through the Giant Forest in Sequoia National Park on July 5, 2013

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Route of our hike through the Giant Forest, as seen with Google Earth, looking north-east. We started at the museum (lower left) and ended at the General Sherman tree, wandering about 5.5 miles through the trees.
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Map of the trails through the Giant Forest at the museum
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Our route is highlighted in blue. We started at the Giant Forest Museum (mid-left) and ended at teh General Sherman Tree (top-center).
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The first giant sequoia we saw was in front of the museum...
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...It's name is "The Sentinal" and apparently it's size is "just average"
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The front of the museum
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We see a lot of these flowers. I think they're leopard lilies, clearly related to the humboldt lilies we have in the Santa Monica Mountains, but their flowers are much smaller, about the size of a ping pong ball.
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No stooping required to walk through this doorway, not even for a 6-plus-footer!
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There are lots of fallen trees, obviously thousands of years old. But how long have they layed there? Hundreds of years?
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Clearly this was a huge tree!
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Lots of the trees, fallen and living, were burned at the base
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"Young" trees had greener needles than the old ones
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I had to take a panorama photo to get the whole tree in
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