Day 3 Fresno to Porterville via Sequoia National Park
Come along for some surprises today as we ride from the San Joaquin Valley up into the high Sierra Nevada mountains. We leave the fruit orchards and ride through green forests and as we gain altidude to above 5000' we see sequoia trees standing tall. We stop at the Kings Canyon National Park gates and get our annual pass. $80 for two on a motorcycle and it covers entry to any national park services park. We stop for a break at Grant Grove Village visitor centre. The visit motivates us to go exploring through the Kings Canyon to the end of the road. The Kings River rages through the canyon and the landscape reveals the power of water to cut through stone. As we reascend to the National Park centre at Grant Grove (6589' 2008m) the temperature begins to fall and we are enveloped in low cloud. It drops to 41.9 deg F (5.5degC) the lowest temperature we have ever experienced while riding on the bike. We didn't expect to be cold today - let alone as cold as this. We were prepa...