My first visit to these famous trees.

General Grant Grove is a section of Kings Canyon National Park established to protect a grove of giant sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum).

It includes the General Grant tree, the second largest tree in the world. …

Later I visited the Mariposa Grove in Yosemite.

It’s home to the Grizzly Giant. And the California Tunnel tree. Here I am driving my rent-a- jalopy.

GREAT idea cutting a hole in one of the world’s most important trees, don’t you think?

Another like this, the Wawona Tree, weakened, fell in 1969 under an estimated two-ton load of snow. It was rebranded the Fallen Tunnel Tree.