Old growth

 Here is Judy when we were at Eagle Lake with a big ponderosa pine. The jefferson pine is a little bigger. Now we’re at the coastal redwoods. The scale here is just out of hand.  There is no way to represent it in a photo.  I shot a video of one tree, to capture as much of it as I could.  (Judy is standing at the base of this tree too.) coastal redwoods There are at least two kinds of redwoods in California.  The coastal redwoods are the tallest ones.  The giant sequoias over in the sierras are the ones with the most massive trunks.  We read that the coastal redwood achieves most of its height in the first hundred years.  Then it spends the next thousand or two filling out. 

Fish and chips for lunch

 …at the Chart Room in Crescent City, California. 2015 summer trip map We crossed the coastal range; I think at this point it’s actually the southern end of the Cascades; a very winding two-lane for a big rig; a lot of driving for a hundred miles. We’re at the Crescent City/Redwoods KOA at the northwestern tip of California.      …nestled up against a redwood forest.  The trees are big even though the biggest trees are long gone.  Remnants remain of the earlier logging.   …with tent sites and camping cabins strategically scattered throughout.  This is no normal KOA.  This is a destination. 

North in Interstate 5

 A long and winding interstate through the northern California mountains.  Lots of elevation changes.  Lots of gear changes. Past Mount Shasta. Past this other thing that’s not Mount Shasta (but it’s a lot closer to the highway). Oregon.  Medford.  The Medford/Gold Hill KOA. 2015 summer trip map  (You might have to move the map a little to see where we are.) Fuel is really expensive in California, so instead of tanking up this morning at 3.10 a gallon in California, we drove on into Oregon before we stopped for fuel.  Paid 3.13.  Oh well.  No harm.  We might not have thought the right thing, but at least we were thinking. Found a rufous hummingbird here at a feeder.