. The Ladies' home journal. nvented for a place like Sequoia: it is such apleasure there just to breathe. The air is marvelous, cool andfresh, and you wouldnt believe it could smell so Wonderfully of pine. We had lunch at the Giant Forest Lodge and then wanderedaround and saw the famous (Continued „ Page 237) Iruly a park of the people, Yosemite attracts almost a million visitors a year to this quiet green valley(opposite page), hemmed in by gray granite cliffs such as, El Capitan (left) and Half Dome (distantright). Yosemite has five great waterfalls and many little ones. Loveliest of all, in
. The Ladies' home journal. nvented for a place like Sequoia: it is such apleasure there just to breathe. The air is marvelous, cool andfresh, and you wouldnt believe it could smell so Wonderfully of pine. We had lunch at the Giant Forest Lodge and then wanderedaround and saw the famous (Continued „ Page 237) Iruly a park of the people, Yosemite attracts almost a million visitors a year to this quiet green valley(opposite page), hemmed in by gray granite cliffs such as, El Capitan (left) and Half Dome (distantright). Yosemite has five great waterfalls and many little ones. Loveliest of all, in the opinion ofmost visitors, is the Bridalveil Fall (right), a 620-foot drapery of water which billows from side toside in the breeze. In late afternoon the sun makes a falling rainbow of Bridalveil, and the rocks be-hind are seemingly stained with every hue. The falls are at their best in late spring. This is theview from the parking place at Inspiration Point, known to all tourists who enter at Wawona. Yosemite. Sequoia-Kings oide by side in the High Sierras are the sister na-tional parks, Kings Canyon (left) and Sequoia(below). In Kings Canyon the clear cold water comesrushing as though from a giant faucet high in themountains. Sequoia is a place of peace and quietwhere voices naturally drop to whispers in thepresence of the worlds oldest living things. Bothparks are open the year around. Fishermen are at-tracted by the rainbow trout, hikers by miles ofscenic trails, mountain climbers by peaks that rangeall the way up to Mt. Whitney (alt. 14,495), tallest inthe U. S. Azaleas and dogwood bloom in the spring,and there are leopard lilies, Indian paintbrush,larkspur, shooting stars and Queen Annes lace.
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