I found King's Canyon to be more interesting than Seqouia (to quote a president, once you've seen one redwood you've seen them all - that this one is 15 feet taller than that one doesn't make it any more interesting to look at). But it is beautiful country and I'll quite happily return at some point, but for now we keep ending up back at Yosemite instead.

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We didn't see Grant. Darn it. Now there's a reason to go back. :)

Sherman is 274.9 ft tall, 102.6 ft in circumference, with a volume of 52,508 cubic ft.

Grant is 268.1, 107.6 and 46,608.

So Grant is only bigger in circumference.
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That would make for a fun LoT outing! :D

And to make it extra swanky, I'll bring a solar-powered lava lamp. :birdy:

I will agree, Yosemite is equally as beautiful -- but if I stay in Yosemite, I do it at the Awahnee (sp.?) Hotel. ;) No campie!

You have to admit though with the redwoods in Sequoia -- the first time you go into that area called "The Great Forest" with tons of those huge trees all around you, it is rather magical.

Yosemite is cooler on the whole waterfall scene though. :)

Yes, both are ginormous and so cool to look at. Grant lost one of its branches, I guess before we were there. "Lost its branches", a phrase which here means "something the size of a large tree came off the side and plummeted through the wooden fence and the walkway around Grant". Whoo, scary.

They make such a thing??? And yeah, a camping expedition with LoT would be the swankiest darned camping trip this side of the Rockies. ;) We will have to keep EuroMeinke and Nirvanaman's hands off each other in the tent though.... ;)

I don't think so, but that doesn't stop me from rigging one myself. ;)

I love camping (and not just the Auntie Mame variety). But I'm afraid that at my age, camping would need to involve an RV with indoor plumbing and an innerspring mattress. :cheers:

And feather boas and a sequinned Liza outfit? ;)

At Dorst they had indoor plumbing... the public showers were at a different campground, but there was the freezing cold stream and the not so cold Lake Hume...

I slept on an air matress the first nite and a military style cot the second nite... defnitely the cot was more comfortable.

If you notice my name, I do not like bears. I am quite happy that I haven't met one...yet.

I would love to stay at the Ahwahnee but not with all of the kids. Sorry kids. We have enjoyed staying at Camp Curry {2 double WITH bathroom}, the loft room {anyone ever stay in this one? It has two doubles on the bottom and a double on a loft, soooo cool} and the family room at the Yosemite Lodge.

We have stayed one night at the Housekeeping camp. Um. Ah. It was very basic. We had the food locker and well, it would have been a lot more fun if the people we were in such close contact with were other people we knew, ya know? And still, no bears.

Tell me about the Ahwahnee...ever stay in a cottage?

The only giant sequoias I've seen were outside of Yosemite.

{I notice how GC picked up on Grants circumference. :D }

I don't really think I'm camping unless I'm sleeping on the ground with only a sleeping back between us. There are no electrical outlets within many, many miles and the nearest shower and flushing toilet is even farther away.

Growing up our main camping was to drive not into the lava flows of southeast Oregon which is mostly federal grazing land. Drive through a couple of the cattle ranches until we were 30 miles or so from the nearest house and then just drop a tent on the first flat spot we found without a anthill in it. 15 degrees over night, 115 degrees midday. That was camping.

Unfortunatley, haven't been able to do much of that as an adult. Everybody we know won't go if if it will involve hauling a cooler farther than 10 feet from the car to the provided picnic table. It isn't camping when there is a higher population density than a Manhattan city block.

That isn't to say it still can't be fun, but it isn't really camping, in my opinion.