take a walk on the white side

After a day in Monterey aquarium, we drove up to Sequoia National Park today.
"Do you have any ranger led programs today?"
"Oh sure", says the ranger in the visitor center. "We have a snowshoe walk at 2. Just that it's for children 10 and up, so... I don't know... Why don't you go to the Giant Forest museum and talk to the ranger over there. The snowshoes might be too big for your young son."
With little hope and big desire we continued to the museum.

We started to go higher and higher in elevation and the snow became thicker and thicker. The road was icy but we didn't need chains. Snow tires were enough.
And then we arrived to the museum and to the big sequoia trees near by. Those trees are BIG!

At the museum Adi tried on the shoes that were about his height and somehow they fit! What a relief, we can join the hike! We got an old fashioned snowshoes (Maine style) that look like tennis rackets and off we went
We explored animal footprints and learned how they survive in the winter low temperatures.


By the end of the walk we were very cold, unable to feel our toes.
They have a strange habit to name the sequoias after generals. We went to see the biggest tree in the world (we believed), named General Sherman(-:
On the way out of the park we saw this beautiful coyote