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While we lived in LA, a quick getaway meant either Yosemite or Joshua Tree National Parks with Death Valley occasionally thrown in. Now while these parks are fantastic locations to visit, they require quite a bit of planning due to their popularity in recent years. So a quick getaway is not a possibility. Then we heard about Kings Canyon and Sequoia National parks. They were closer to us than the other parks except for Joshua tree. When I learned that the canyon is deeper than the Grand Canyon, I was hooked. We made an initial exploratory trip to the park and found it was mostly just us a couple of other families. The remoteness and rather sparse amenities once inside the park make it a challenging destination for most people.
On the benefits side, the views my god the views, it seems like this park has some stunning viewpoints overlooking some actual wild landscapes. Then comes the stunning Canyon and the brilliant Giant Sequoias.
One of the coolest geographical features is the Morro rock at the Sequoia national park that provides you with a high vantage point to view the entrance to the park. I made this trip in 2013 and discarded this panorama shot as unusable because, quite frankly, none of the software I had at the time could make a decent stitch of the image. But when I was going over my pictures and saw this series, I tried my luck again with photoshop cc and voila!