Dingus Milktoast
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I ran into Treebeard's cousin up near the Elephants Graveyard
He seemed hurried so we didn't get a chance to talk. Pity, that.
DMT
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Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2009 - 11:18am PT
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Thanks guys,
That's exactly what I was hoping for!
Edit: Steve, no I've never been there. Wish I had!
Angus Bilthost, That really is Treebeards cousin!
Pity you didn't have time to talk....
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2009 - 11:24am PT
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Oregon Cascades.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2009 - 11:27am PT
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Needles Firetower and Bonsai.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2009 - 11:29am PT
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Needles. Not the best tree picture, but cool anyway.
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wtfd
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i was amazed at this little guys staunch determination to simply be, i probably looked like a 2 year old repeating him verbatim.
this tree lives right above the notch at the needles...
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Survival
If I get a chance this weekend, I'll try and scan
a few of the bristlecone pix I took in Great Basin NP years
ago. They're special trees.
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Tami
Social climber
Vancouver, Canada
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I'm a huge fan of bonsai tho' I have to admit, that like Frank Sinatra and Sid Vicious, I do it MY WAY..........which is only to say I'm too retarded, lazy and dull to engage any comprehensive understanding of bonsai and it's culture.
I live in the land of big trees ( despite logging companies making them scarce ) and have loved trees since I was little & climbed them. My parents refused to cut the big cedars on their lot when they built The Family Home and so we grew up climbin' those things.
I also spent five seasons treeplanting in northern BC - from the Queen Charlotte Is ( Haida Gwaii ) to the Rottie Mtns. Heinous work but amazingly rewarding in unimaginable ways. Even days where we could see above in the sky where the snow turned to rain and we were freezing our butts, it was still a powerful place to exist.........and , of course, the money was good.
About fifteen or so years ago I harvested some little trees along the sides of logging roads. A couple of these are now getting rather big - the Douglas Fir ( a big dug fir ? d'oh! ) I had to prune it's leader two years ago c's it was beating a mad path to the sky. The tree is about 5m in height and I'll keep it about there. I also have lodgepole pines, a yellow cedar, hemlock, spruce and balsam in my ( actually quite small ) front yard.
My prize tree out front is a pink variation of the Yellowwood tree, a Carolinian hardwood. I grew this tree - now 7m tall - from seed in 1991. It should flower in the next few years!
I also have some bonsai in little pots: spruce, red cedar, lodgepole pine, eastern white pine, apple trees....most were grown from seed but a few are from those harvests from 15 yrs ago. They are unruly as bonsai and, like me, a little unkempt and outta control.
I guess we get the trees we deserve.
Cheers, Tami
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2009 - 11:52am PT
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wtfd, I get it dude..I totally get it! Awesome tree.
Tami, thanks for the story. I was a tree planter too!! On the Oregon coast range. Brutal work, yes. Special moments, yes.
I personally planted over a million. I've been back to units I planted to find 30-40 ft trees! Late 70's, money wasn't that bitchin'...
Indianclimber, those are beautiful man. MORE PLEASE!!
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Blinny
Trad climber
JustKathNotMark
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Bristlecone Pine
By Hugh Prestwood
Way up in the mountains on the high timber line
There's a twisted old tree called the Bristlecone Pine
The wind there is bitter, it cuts like a knife
And it keeps that tree holding on for dear life
But hold on it does, standing its ground
Standing as empires rise and fall down
When Jesus was gathering lambs to his fold
The tree was already a thousand years old
Now the way I have lived there ain't no way to tell
When I die if I'm going to heaven or hell
So when I'm laid to rest it would suit me just fine
To sleep at the feet of the Bristlecone Pine
For as I would slowly return to the earth
What little this body of mine might be worth
Would soon start to nourish the roots of that tree
And it would partake of the essence of me
And who knows but that as the centuries turn
A small spark of me might continue to burn
As long as the sun did continue to shine
Down on the limbs of the Bristlecone Pine
Now the way I have lived there ain't no way to tell
When I die if I'm going to heaven or hell
So I'd just as soon serve out eternity's time
Asleep at the feet of the Bristlecone Pine
Asleep at the feet of the Bristlecone Pine
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2009 - 11:56am PT
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BlinnyTheNutJob,
Thanks girl, beautiful.
I was hoping you'd see the thread about my daughter....
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Blinny
Trad climber
JustKathNotMark
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Just did. . . It won the prestigious, and much sought after "BlinnyTheNutJob'sBitchenTheadOfTheWeekAward"!
YAY.
BTNJ
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Tami, unkempt? No!
Outta control?
No way!
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Mike.
climber
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Cool, cool.
Ever drive through Ancient Bristlecone Pine near While Mountain and guess which one's the oldest living thing on earth?
http://www.sonic.net/bristlecone/Schulman.html
To my knowledge the location is kept from the public for the tree's safety.
vvv Manure Pile?
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Indianclimber
Trad climber
Lost Wages
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Talk about trees in a hurry
Guess where in the valley this one is
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