Wish upon a star *: Trees trees and more trees

Look who's talking: I just came back from San Diego, which is about 450miles (724km) away. It took 7 to 8hrs drive to reach. I'm exhausted. No proper rest at all this weekend. Fortunately, it is the end of daylight saving, I gain one extra hour for resting :) Updates soon...

"Nature here I come!"

I visited the Kings Canyon National Park in my third weekend in San Jose (it is my 5th weekend now). It was a 4 hour drive from San Jose to Kings Canyon, most of the journey is on freeway except the last part where up-hill climbing were needed (by the car of course!) Some of the vista point we visited reached as high as 5,000ft (1,524m) of elevation. High = cold

The entrance of Sequioa & Kings Canyon National Park

An entrance fee of $20 is charged per vehicle.

So, what's there to see in a national park?

Trees, bigger trees and twin trees (click on the first pic and you can see a comparison between a human and a tree)

No words can describe the scenery of vast mountains I saw there. It was just damn beautiful!

(Oh, maybe some bad word can stress on the beautiful-ness of the scenery...hehe)

See the small road in the picture? There's where we're heading after this, we go uphill then downhill, following the road.

And we reach a small little stream with waterfall

The stream with very very cold water flowing

I couldn't figure out how to adjust the aperture on my Sony :'(

Had to keep my hands in the pocket ALL the time
(the red glove wasn't mine, had to give back to the owner after awhile)

I wasn't expecting a national park to be so high above sea-level, and thus didn't do enough preparations in terms of clothes. When the sun goes to sleep, the temperature drop as low as 42F (5.6C). My fingers went numb, I couldn't feel my own fingers. Had to keep my hands in the pocket all the time to keep warm.

My hope is to track on the available trails in the National Park. It must be nice to be able to enjoy the view in a slow and quiet manner, observe squirrels and birds along the way. It is even more enjoyable with cool temperature. Unfortunately, it is still a hope, not reality yet... :(

To end the post, here's a picture I love. Too bad it wasn't taken by me nor by my camera, so nothing to be proud of...