[pct-l] Sequoia Side Trip

[goslowgofar]

There are 3 groves in Yosemite.  If you really want to see a giant sequoia, I suggest hitching to the Tuolumne Grove.  The parking lot/trailhead for this grove is on the Tioga Road/hwy 120 about 38 miles west of Tuolumne Meadows.  Once you get to the parking lot, you walk a mile down to the grove on an old paved road.  There are a couple of really nice big trees there...and some smaller younger ones. It you are hiking to Yosemite Valley via the JMT, you would pass this grove on the way back to Tuolumne Meadows (if you are taking the hiker bus or hitching via the Tioga Road.)
Katy

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Patrick,
Depends on what you mean by convenient.  If you are walking from Mexico
then I would say a day or two walk out of the way is not really all that
inconvenient.  Depends on how badly you want to see them.  The Sequoia's
are on the west slope of the Sierra for the environmental characteristics
that the west slope affords.  Same true for the coastal redwoods.  No there
are no sequoias or coastal redwoods in very close proximity to the PCT.
Check out some routes over to the groves in Yosemite or Sequoia NP.
 Probably will make for a day or two side trip; a laughable diversion for
those hell bent on clicking miles, but if it works for you then do it!
 hyoh.  there are some quite large doug fir, incense cedar, sugar pine,
western red cedar along the PCT if you keep your eyes out for them
best
justin