Moro Rock: From a distance
Up close: Climbing the stairsCopyright 2008 Lydia Hinshaw
FRESNO, CA -- The Grand Canyon and Zion were repeat adventures. Tuesday we set out to explore a place we'd never been before: Sequoia King's Canyon National Park, and the assorted adjacent National Forests and Monument.
It was mostly a long, slow, scenic drive, twisting and turning, climbing and descending. Big rocks and big trees.
Moro Rock looms about 300 feet above shoulders of the mountain it rests upon. That's about the same height as some of the giant sequoia trees we would see later.
Back in 1931, someone decided to put in steps to the top of the rock. There are about 400 of them. It's not a difficult climb, even for a young child, or a young dad with a small child on his back.
From the top, 6,725 feet above sea level, we looked down on the squiggly line of the road we'd driven to get to the base of the rock.
There was no way to climb any of the trees. No way to get one of them to fit into a photo frame either.
It was mostly a long, slow, scenic drive, twisting and turning, climbing and descending. Big rocks and big trees.
Moro Rock looms about 300 feet above shoulders of the mountain it rests upon. That's about the same height as some of the giant sequoia trees we would see later.
Back in 1931, someone decided to put in steps to the top of the rock. There are about 400 of them. It's not a difficult climb, even for a young child, or a young dad with a small child on his back.
From the top, 6,725 feet above sea level, we looked down on the squiggly line of the road we'd driven to get to the base of the rock.
There was no way to climb any of the trees. No way to get one of them to fit into a photo frame either.
From the top: The long, winding road below
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