Walking Amongst Giants - Jedediah Smith Redwood State Park

Scarlett & Laryssa in front of the Boy Scout Tree - our first hike in the California Redwoods

We took our first hike in the Redwood National Forest and it didn't disappoint.  The size and grandeur of these trees can't be caught in a picture, but I gave it a shot.  Today's hike was on the Boy Scout Tree Trail in Jedediah Smith State Park.  To get there we drove along Howland Hill Road, a narrow dirt road that travels right through the Redwood Forest and it's tight, weaving path had awe around every corner.

It wasn't long before we found a place to park next to a Giant

It's no wonder that Steven Spielberg picked this forest to film the Ewok scenes in Return of the Jedi - it really is as if you are on another planet.  And how this tree that we all fit in is still alive after being hollowed out and burned on the inside is still a mystery to us.

All three girls on a downed Redwood

Graeme decided to climb

Maribeth & Graeme on the trail

Even the clover was big

And purple underneath

A fern bigger than Annalise

As if Annalise weren't small enough!