By DENNIS WYATT 209 Living SAN JOSE — A few years back some friends from the Midwest and their 17 year-old son were hiking with me at Big Basin Redwoods Park about 30 miles in a slight northwest direction from downtown San Jose as the hawk flies. I took them down the moderately traveled 4.6-mile Meteor Trail loop where a short side trip took us to the largest redwood in the park soaring skyward some 328 feet. It isn’t the tallest tree in the world — that distinction belongs to the 379.2-foot redwood dubbed “Hyperion” on California’s north coast.