On a nice rainy day, we headed out to Sequoia National Park. We set up at an RV site outside of the park for the first night and were greeted by the resident cat who really wanted in. Kismet was not pleased, but her hissing and growling didn't phase him at all!

We were camped at the convergence of 3 rivers in the town of Three Rivers. It continued to rain and shortly after sunset the National Weather Service sent a phone alert for flash flooding right near us. I'm not sure why we are so lucky!

The following day was bright and sunny and we didn't float away during the night.

Kings Canyon National Park is right north of Sequoia, and since Trevor was going to join us for the weekend, we decided to take this lovely curvy road and go up to Kings Canyon. It was slow going but beautiful with roadside waterfalls!

As we drove up the mountain, the temperature kept dropping. Pretty soon we started seeing snow on the sides of the road.

As we entered the park, we were told we could only go in as far as the visitor's center unless we had tire chains. The roads didn't seem too bad at first, but when we came out of the visitor center, it had started to sleet. The roads deteriorated quickly! So we turned around and headed to a lower altitude!

Standing next to our small white rental car. No snow tires!

The entrance to the visitor's center

The next day we stayed in the lower altitudes of Sequoia since chains were still required to go in very far. We planned to rent some when Trevor arrived. It was a beautiful day with some low lying fog, but that didn't stop us from hiking to see some of the waterfalls and the swollen, fast-running rivers.

Mule deer--not at all afraid of us!

We've been in the park two days now without seeing a giant sequoia!