Trees of Mystery

We ventured out again last week, this time to Klamath, CA to see the Trees of Mystery.  It's a cool name to make people stop on their road trip - it's just a hike through the redwoods to see some really cool tree formations and sculptures.  On our drive there we saw the most bizarre thing I have ever experienced.  We were driving on the coast, but high above the ocean.  It was foggy though, so when you looked over the guard rail, you saw some trees and then nothing.  Nothing at all.  It looked like the world ended and that you would fall into oblivion.  Totally weird, but awesome.  When we got there, we were greeted by Paul Bunyan and Babe the blue ox.

Yes, that's me and Kennedy at the bottom of his foot.  He was huge.  He talked and waved to Kennedy and commented on her yellow shoes.

The trees were really beautiful.  We walked through the wildflower garden, but there were no wildflowers to be seen.  Only this turtle with a cute little girl on it.

Seriously, these redwoods are gigantic.  We saw a 3,000 year old tree, some that were growing horizontally, and a tree that had 12 trees grafted into it.  It was pretty amazing and a really nice hike.

Kennedy really enjoyed running around in all of the trees.  She was running up the trail faster than us sometimes, and it was pretty steep.  We also got to see the cathedral trees, which were a bunch of trees that grew together at the base and formed a canopy overhead.  Apparently lots of weddings happen there each year.  You can see it behind us in the picture below.

Noah, of course, loved his stroller ride and was very content to watch the trees overhead and suck his thumb.

And here is the biggest tree you've ever seen.  I can't even guess how tall this thing was, but it was thick as all get up.  It was really beautiful at the top.

We took a gondola ride to the top of a ridge with a view of a really pretty valley that was full of trees and nothing but trees.  Gondolas scare me a little bit, I never feel safe - but Kennedy was very willing to ride and pose for pictures along the way.  She said that we were flying.

We had a really fun outing, and one that we really needed.  Kennedy liked getting out of the house since she has been stuck inside quite a bit while she's been potty training.  She was a trooper and hiked the whole way with us.  She was very understandably wiped out from her long day.

When Noah gets a little bit older, it might be really fun to go back and show him all the fun things he might have missed this time around.