Sequoia National Park, March 23-24 2017

Hello..
I am back from the dead 👻

Just an FYI, I am going to start posting my travelling experiences on this blog too. I was about to post about my Japan, Europe and Hawaii Trip but they were too long, so I'll start with this weekend getaway first.

Well.... this past weekend, I had a weekend getaway with three of my friends to Sequoia National Park. It was an impulse decision, so we did not really prepare for the trip.

We left LA at around 5am on Saturday and arrived at Sequoia around 10:30ish am. We booked one room at WUKSACHI LODGE inside the Park. Good thing, they let us checked in around that time. I believe their usual check in time is around 2? But not really sure. All I know is their check out time is 11am. The lodge was okay. We got the building that is far from the parking lot. Initially, we got the first floor room. They said it has the best view. Yet, the snow covered half of the second floor window. So I was wondering how first floor view is the best view (?)
We got moved to second floor due to first floor was not ready. The cleaning crew did not clean the whole first floor. We asked them to give us a new room, so they gave us a room on the second floor.

It was still snowing at Sequoia. I did not expect that much of a snow in the end of March, so most of the places were closed.
Our Original Plan was to go to Moro Rock. However, it was closed during winter season. So, I guess I have to come back in the summer.

Look at how thick the snow was

 

 

The places that were open : the snow play, General Sherman Tree, Big Tree, Museum and Tunnel Rock. We ended up playing in the snow, since there was no other thing we could do. Most of the hiking trail were buried in the snow. However, none of us wore water proof pants, soooo.. yeah

 


We also did not prepare foods. The restaurant closed at around 8 or 9 pm, so we had to stick with our instant noodle. It was really foggy, so we thought we would not see any stars at night. Yet, we were surprised when we went out around 9:30pm

 

You can see a lot of stars from the parking lot

 

 

We stayed outside for about an hour. It was freezing cold. I could not feel my fingers due to taking so many pictures of the beautiful night sky without wearing gloves.

The next day we bought a cold sandwich from the store and just sitting around in the snow until around 12pm and decided to go home.

Lesson learned from this trip:
1. Make sure you pack the right clothes. Waterproof pants for playing in the snow
2. Pack a lot of food that does not need microwave
3. Bring gloves
4. Bring hot coco and comfie chair for stargazing