{"id":1052,"date":"2010-10-11T13:58:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T17:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:21:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:21:14","slug":"sequoia-kings-canyon-national-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/2010\/10\/sequoia-kings-canyon-national-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"Sequoia &#038; Kings Canyon National Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/invisiblemanmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/SEKI-gangup.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1052]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1054\" title=\"SEKI-gangup\" src=\"http:\/\/invisiblemanmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/SEKI-gangup.jpg\" alt=\"Sequoia Kings Canyon\" width=\"640\" height=\"995\" srcset=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/SEKI-gangup.jpg 640w, http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/SEKI-gangup-192x300.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My wife and I just returned from a great trip to Sequoia &amp; Kings Canyon National Parks. \u00a0We hiked among the big Sequoia trees, gained amazing views of the Great Western Divide and walked along cliff-trails that plunged 2,000ft to the valley floor. \u00a0Our last day there we took a leisurely hike into Kings Canyon and found a clearing to sketch and read in. \u00a0Among the sketches above are: Sphinx Mountain, Bucks Peak, Kristina reading and an old stump.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/invisiblemanmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/SEKI-burnedTree.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1052]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1055\" title=\"SEKI-burnedTree\" src=\"http:\/\/invisiblemanmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/SEKI-burnedTree.jpg\" alt=\"Burned Tree\" width=\"640\" height=\"946\" srcset=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/SEKI-burnedTree.jpg 640w, http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/SEKI-burnedTree-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You see lots of fire damage throughout the parks &#8211; in fact, fire is a crucial element in the reproduction of Sequoia trees: the fire causes the giant tree&#8217;s tiny pinecones to release its seeds. \u00a0I&#8217;m not sure what kind of tree this burned fellow is but I enjoyed sketching it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/invisiblemanmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/SEKI-glacier.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1052]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1056\" title=\"SEKI-glacier\" src=\"http:\/\/invisiblemanmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/SEKI-glacier.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/SEKI-glacier.jpg 640w, http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/SEKI-glacier-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/SEKI-glacier-297x300.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lower ramparts of Glacier Monument in Kings Canyon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife and I just returned from a great trip to Sequoia &amp; Kings Canyon National Parks. \u00a0We hiked among the big Sequoia trees, gained amazing views of the Great Western Divide and walked along cliff-trails that plunged 2,000ft to the valley floor. \u00a0Our last day there we took a leisurely hike into Kings Canyon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}