Now what would a camping trip be if we didn't pay a visit to good ol' General Sherman!!
Here are some fun facts about the tree as you browse the pictures!
*It's the world's largest tree!
*The Sherman tree is as tall as a 27 story buliding, a thirteen story building would barely touch its first huge branch
- If the trunk of the General Sherman tree were laid horizontally on a football field and the roots were on one goal line, the top of the tree would be 91 yards away on the opposite 9 yard line
- The maximum base diameter of the Sherman tree equals 36 feet; if the tree were placed in the middle of a California three-lane freeway, it would completely block block all three 12 feet-wide lanes
- The annual growth rate of the trunk of the General Sherman tree is 40 cubic feet is equal to the trunk of an average tree one foot in basel diameter and 50 feet tall
- The total volume of the trunk of the General Sherman tree - 52,500 cubic feet - is equal to the lumberman’s measure of 630,000 board feet. Since a board foot is 12 inches of 1x12 lumber, the trunk of the General Sherman tree theoretically could be cut into 119.3 miles of 1x12 planking. Laid end - to - end this would strech from the foot of the General Sherman tree to south of Bakersfield, or in a straight line west to the Pacific Ocean.
It was a very cool sight to see!! All the trees around General Sherman were huge too!!!
She look so small next to that trunk!
Alison and Ella with General Sherman behind them...
Standing inside a fallen tree.
General Sherman was a fascinating sight!!
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