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Redwoods Are My Favourite - Part 3

We then drove out of the forest to the coast to see the Redwoods National Park. We phoned ahead to see if they could leave junior ranger books and badges out for us. They said they would, but we could not find out where they might have put them. We stopped in a few places but eventually had to give up. Gen was upset we couldn’t find the badges, that we didn’t know where Hyperion, the tallest redwood in the park stood and we had no internet access to search. We stopped at the Big Tree trail but Gen wanted to push on to find the tallest tree as we were running out of daylight. 


We decided to do the hike and then see what else we could see. We were glad we did. The sheer enormity of the redwoods on the trail was awe inducing. The Big Tree was not as tall as the Founders tree, standing a mere 286 feet, but had a diameter of 23.7 feet. It was immense. The trail kept leading us to more massive trees, it was amazing. We later found out that Hyperion was off trail deep in the park. At this point, we had run out of daylight. 

Our day of walking through redwoods had come to an end. We had also reached our last destination in California. We had 5 days before we had to be in Victoria for the wedding of Matthew, Gen’s cousin, and Leah. We needed to press on. Our next destination was Crater Lake in Oregon so we started driving. We drove 3.5 hours to reach Mill Creek Falls Scenic Area and set up the camper in the dark.

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