Day 1 - Finally I manage to join my friends and our adventure can begin! We are in the sequoia n.p. and these trees already look big... but the big ones have yet to come!

This is the fattest sequoia in the world: 30 m. of circumference! It's not the tallest as it has lost its top.
This photo doesn't show correctly the real size of this tree: people are much closer to the camera than to the sequoia, otherwise they'd look half size :-)

We leave the most visited area: our plan is to camp just outside of the giant sequoia area, as here it is not allowed.

Day 2 - obviously we didn't mange to get out of the reserve before dark. So we left the marked trail and are camping hidden in the forest... Italians!

Checking the map

Franco has found a sort of pine seeds, delicious :-)

On the trail

Dinner time

We are so hippie! Aren't we? :-)

...Mihai run after it naked, surprising some American trekkers :-)

In our backpacks there are 11 days of supplies, and Elizabeth Pass is at more than 4000 metres of altitude. I remember this afternoon as the hardest of all the trekking.

We make it and get down on the other side to a suitable place for camping in the middle of the night. Here Miriam is preparing a late dinner.

I don't know if you get it from the photo, but the "floor" is all one single rock layer of granite.

Nice creek.

Miriam, beauty bathing.

Alien invasion?

Day 5 - a beautiful pass at 3700 metres, here there are strange big trees growing in the sand.

From here a long and steep downhill leads to King's Canyon.

But also some fish cought by Franco! ...well, maybe not much for 8 people. :-)

Maurilio lags behind and meets the bear. We missed it.
(Unfortunately his camera was awful, so this is the best photo we got)

Day 7 - we have spent the night camping on the shore of this lake. Can you imagine a better place to wake up in the morning? So much beauty all around us!

Squirrel!

Getting fresh water from a spring on the lake shore.

The valley on the other side is absolutely amazing!

Lakes and trees. I love this photo.

Day 8 - the group splits in two: a fast-walking group (on the left) and a slow-walking one (on the right). The funny thing is that the slowest person decides to go on the fast group and the fastest one, Franco, joins us in the slow group. A nonsense typical of us :-)

Actually, after 30 minutes, we meet each other again in a great creek for swimming

I saw the coyote and made a photo! Yes, quite faraway indeed, but I saw it!

I'm somehow fascinated by this secluded little valley.

Plants "in fire"

Slow group at dinner.

Day 9 - breakfast time

Day 10 - burned wood.

Spinning tree.

Into the wood