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| THE COLONY NEWS | JULY 2021 | 19
Then comes one
of those special
days where you
wake up to a quiet
world of white. I
took this photo
on May 21, and
being a Southern
California girl, I
was so excited to
have this fairyland
just outside my van
window.
General Sherman – Sequoia National
Park. Biggest living thing in the world.
Its top is broken due to lightning, so it
grows wider instead of taller. (Just like
me--shrinking and thickening!)
El Capitan, the world's largest hunk of
granite. There is a meadow across the
road from El Cap where people picnic
and watch those crazy rock climbers.
It can take three days to over a week
to climb El Capitan, depending on
one's expertise and the route chosen
up the face. One evening, we counted
11 different groups of lights on the
rock face where people were bedding
down for the night with their beds
hanging from pegs hammered into
the rock wall. Crazy, crazy, crazy! I
like being old, and I'm sure if I had
taken up rock climbing, I would have
never made it to old.
Even though Tioga Pass
was closed, I was able to
drive two other passes
– the Sonora Pass and
Highway 4. Both topped
out over 9,000 feet and
were dotted with many
snow- framed lakes. This
one is Mosquito Lake
on Highway 4. Have no
idea why something so
beautiful should be named
for an ugly biting bug!
