June 25th Kings Canyon

June 25th Kings Canyon

Sequoia canyon is a very beautiful place to visit and I highly recommend it to anyone. Kings canyon is right next door and is also beautiful…so I’ve heard. In California, wildfires are a constant in the summers and this summer is no different. It is so amazingly smokey here, you can’t see Kings Canyon. You can drive through it and see what is right in front of you, but everything else is behind a fog of smoke. Despite the smoke, what we saw of kings was very beautiful. There is a river called “Kings River” in the canyon with class five rapids. In case you don’t know what class five rapids are, they are the most extreme rapids rivers can have. They kill professionals. The NPS doesn’t let anyone go on them anymore. But they were very cool to see. I saw a rattlesnake on the side of the road but not much else. We stopped at this little place on the side of the road to eat and the man who owned the shop said that we should get our money back because we can’t see the canyon! Aaron thought the man a genius because that was precisely what he thought as well. So, disappointed, we left Kings canyon and we are on our way to Yosemite.