The biggest tree in the world “General Sherman” by runridefly

photography · @runridefly · Jul 22 '18

$1.98

The biggest tree in the world “General Sherman”

This last week the family decided to take a drive through the Sequoia National Park, and we stopped and walked the “Sherman Tree Trail”

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@daniel-san, @theharvey and @aaronthegoat all made the journey the the biggest tree in the world.  

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The boys walked the half mile to the General Sherman, but they didn’t have enough gas to walk back up to the car.  

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The General Sherman doesn’t look like much until you see that one huge branch and then walk around it.  

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The drive though the Sequoia National Park is such a relaxing drive, and it’s so nice that’s it’s so close to our front door.

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From our house we only have to make one left turn to get up into the park and one left turn after the exit out of Kings Canyon National Park to return home.  

I’m @runridefly, and if you ever need a tour of the park, send me a message.

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@arosebunch · Jul 22 '18

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Wow what beautiful park and how cool that you live so close!  I would love to visit sometime.  Where exactly is this?  Thank you for sharing! 🙏🏼☺️

👍 runridefly

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@runridefly · Jul 22 '18

I live in Visalia California

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@arosebunch · Jul 22 '18

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Awesome! Thanks for the info.!  I do want to make it there to see the giants.  I will definitely post when I do. Thanks!

👍 runridefly

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@erickyoussif · Jul 22 '18

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thanks for your offer!..... it looks like "los cedros del libano"

👍 runridefly

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@blazing · Jul 23 '18

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That's a huge tree out there great to check that out through your blog post interesting day you had : )

👍 runridefly

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@ervin-lemark · Jul 23 '18

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You live in a beautiful part of the world, my friend. Great for you.

And a huge tree too :) How old is it?

👍 runridefly

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@runridefly · Jul 23 '18

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@ervin-lemark, because of its size, they think it’s a 1000 years older than the other giant sequoias.   They planted a giant Sequoia downtown around 80 years ago and it doesn’t look much different than a lot of trees in the area.  I think it’s around 60 feet tall.  Who really knows, but I would like to go back in a time machine and see the baby giant Sherman.

👍 ervin-lemark, cheneats

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@ervin-lemark · Jul 23 '18

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Me too :)

They estimate its age up to 2700 years -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Sherman_(tree)

Impressive :)

👍 runridefly

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