Mariposa Redwoods in Snow, Yosemite National Park, California
| Description: | The Mariposa ("butterfly" in Spanish) Grove of Giant Sequoias is a magnificent collection of majestic redwoods (Sequoiadendron giganteum) some aged over 2,000 years. These trees average 10 to 15 feet in diameter and about 250 feet in height. I snowshoed several miles around this grove in a heavy snowfall. The weight of the snow bowed the branches down and I had to dodge mini-blizzards of snow shedding off overloaded branches. |
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