| Seekers of outdoor adventure stand at the base of a Big Tree, a giant sequoia (Sierra redwood), at the South Grove, Calaveras Big Trees State Park, Calaveras County, California, western slopes of the Sierra Nevada. Another Big Tree rises at far right; that's the trunk of a sugar pine--an impressive conifer in its own right--at foreground left, by the way. The South Grove at Calaveras Big Trees makes an excellent side trip when visiting the High Sierra Nevada fossil plants in the upper Miocene Disaster Peak Formation. |