Day 34
July 13, 2013
Trail of 100 Giants
Temp: 80-95 degrees
Mileage: 250 miles
Time gone: 9 hours
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| It isn't the biggest tree by far, but the lighting was good and a lady was walking by right then. |
We slowly drug ourselves out of bed to just get in the
car again. This time it was to a place
Brian wanted to take boys for sometime…Trail of 100 Giants. This is the place where you get to really
climb in, on and around the sequoia trees.
It is a 1 mile-ish loop around the Sequoias. Brian was here a few years ago and saw one
tree standing. NOW this same tree has
fallen down. How many people can say
they have seen a sequoia standing, then on the forest floor? Some
lucky German tourist happened to be filming the area right when it fell. Oh what fortune he had. What a once in a life time experience!
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| Standing on tree that fell over recently. Sullivan is in the crack to the right and below me. He was following a path under the tree and found an opening on the other side. I crawled through it later with the video going. |
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| Sitting in the roots of a tree that fell over some time ago. |
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| Climbing the roots of the tree |
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| More climbing! |
After all the climbing we stopped by the super duper slow
but super duper yummy McNallys burger stand to refuel. Then off to find a spot in the river to
play. I didn’t bring my suit but the other
3 did. I was expecting to sit on the shore with my feet in the water. But more on that later. The current was strong. Sullivan scooted around on big boulder and
lost his footing. He was holding to the
rock with an open palm, there was nothing to grab on to. Brian told him to let go and swim around the
rock. He did and he found his footing
again. We saw some girls jumping off a
10 ft cliff. There was a dad there and
he said, that yes, it was plenty deep and safe as long as you jump in a certain
direction. Seth jumped and had the time
of his life. Brian jumped next. Then Sullivan conjured up the courage to do
it too. It was at this point I thought
I wanted to jump – but I didn’t have a suit.
Do strip down to my underwear, cuz really how much different is it than
a bikini? I think my kids would have died of embarrasement if I did that so the only other option was
jump with my clothes on. The Chili
Peppers song has been in my head for a week now. “Butt hole surfer” line was running thru my
head in San Diego. The line now was “Its
better to regret something you did, that something you didn’t do”. Ok Anthony Keidis, I’ll do it. The current was strong and it was challenging
to make it across. The climb to the top
of the jumping off point was easy.
Overcoming the brain to allow myself to jump was HARD! I started and stopped many times before actually
jumping. Then, I had to do it
again! Anthony was right – I would have
regretted not jumping. But the 3rd and final jump I landed with my
shin parallel to the water and didn’t have my nose plugged all the way. Ouch!
Sullivan stumbled a little on his last jump. He ran, then slipped right before
jumping. He fell to his butt. Brian saw this. I didn’t, thank God. Brian was scared to death watching it as he
thought Sullivan was going to hit his head before falling in.
Best things:
Sarah – Jumping!
Seth-Jumping off the ledge
Sullivan-Climbing up the roots of the tree that fell a
long time ago
Brian –
Worst Part
Sarah – The day had to end
Seth – getting water up my nose
Sullivan – Almost falling over the jumping ledge
Brian -
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