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IAmRotagilla t1_j6dcgns wrote

Reply to comment by sfcnmone in Redwoods. Mariposa Grove. Yosemite NP CA. [3662x2441] [OC] by chezgky

I have had the privilege of walking through that grove of astoundingly humongous trees. I live in Florida but have visited beautiful Yosemite four times.

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CAAugirl t1_j6ddrqb wrote

For a summer I worked in that grove every day and it never failed to stun me. They’re my favourite trees.

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sfcnmone t1_j6dkzdd wrote

Lucky you!!

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CAAugirl t1_j6ekxn7 wrote

I was lucky. Even more so as I was able to work 3 seasons in Yellowstone.

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sfcnmone t1_j6dkyg3 wrote

OK I'm gonna tell you my story. I was born and raised in California and had visited both the coastal redwoods and Yosemite many times but somehow had never seen these trees. And we had a friend visiting from Thailand who wanted to go to Yosemite, so we took him to the Tuolumne Grove, where you park and then walk a bit down into the forest. And I said to my friend "I'm not sure how we will know which ones are the Sequoiahs. . ." And then when we saw the first one I laughed so hard I peed my pants.

Calling them trees doesn't really describe what's going on with them.

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IAmRotagilla t1_j6ds3ur wrote

We visited two coastal redwood parks north of Eureka in June. Spent several hours walking among and admiring those beauties. The experience is like no other. My girlfriend had never seen a giant redwood. She was astonished too. (Didn’t pee, though.) Nature humbles us in the best way.

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sfcnmone t1_j6dzldq wrote

The coast redwoods (sequoia sempervirens) make me think of Rivendell. The giant sequoia, like in this photo (sequoia giganteum) are like the Ents.

There's another sequoia with a really fascinating story. We have them in San Francisco in the botanical garden. Dawn redwoods, if you are interested in this very beautiful deciduous "extinct" redwood:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasequoia_glyptostroboides

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