On Day 8 of a 16 day epic trip, we arrived at Sequoia National Park in California. By this point, we have driven almost 2,000 miles and had spent 3 days at the beach and 2 days at some of California's theme parks. It was time for a little relaxation and enjoying the great outdoors. This was to be the first trip to Sequoia by anyone in the family. We had no idea what to expect apart from seeing some of the largest trees in the world.

A long evening starts off with Golden's recent accomplishment: A Black Belt in TaeKwonDo! But after that it's nearly all about three trips Rylan had over the last month...

I've been updating some stuff on the web site and still moving over old podcasts from the old site when I ran across these videos.  Shug sent them over awhile back and they are worth checking out again.  He goes through many of the items he carries, gives us a little information on each and talks about some of the problems he has solved.  There are four in all and they are only a few minutes each.  If you don't have time to view them all, at least check out the first one.  He's a Hoot.
Thanks Shug!

The Big Four Ice Caves are a wonder.  Some years almost non-existent, some years speculator!  Every year a little different.  This year - Fabulous.  I hope you can get a sense of the scale of the cave when you see that image I took from a distance.  That little speck of a hiker is Travis approaching the mouth of the beast.