How is Sequoia National Park different from home?

The difference is that here in the sequoias we can see the trees and the animals that we can't see at home. Up here the breeze is great and its cold but its better than home. Nature is what we have here not at home, maybe in the country that's all. Its' beautiful in the sequoias.

Imagine what it would be like to be like to be one of the first people to live in the park.

We seen a cabin that was owned by Hale O Tharp, pioneer resident of the Three Rivers locality, first visited Giant Forest in 1858 accompanied by two Yokut Indians he lived in this rustic cabin each sum from 1861 until Sequoia National Park was established in 1890. He used the nearby meadows as range for his livestock.

Tharp was recognized as discoverer of Giant Forest died at his old three rivers ranch home on November 5, 1912 at the age of 84 years.

10-2-02

On October 1st we went hiking up the mountains, "smiles." We made many stops but we kept on going; we hiked through a little bad weather, a lot of snow but we still made it to Clover Creek we set up our tents at our campsite and cooked dinner and had a little story time. Some people went to sleep but some of the others such as myself stayed up and sat next to the fire just a little longer. Then I went to bed, I didn't sleep that well though because I was cold; but because it snowed that's what made it more fun for us. We had woke up and ate breakfast and just talked about things and had fun. All we did was site around the fire and just talked then we started to clean up. At night we seen three parties of four and second group we saw had went back down because they couldn't hang like us. Well we backpacked and walked back, but I forgot yesterday we saw deer and a baby black bear. We seen many birds - it was amazing.