Discussion Topic |
|
This thread has been locked |
| Messages 1 - 969 of total 969 in this topic |
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 6, 2009 - 01:57pm PT
|
I have been in love with Bonsai trees for many years now, but got rid of all my trees when I left Alaska and then D.C.
I have to start all over here in New Mexico.
I have some killer pix from the National Arboretum in DC that I will try to scare up, but in the meantime....
But of course the thing that really inspired me about bonsai in the first place is all the mighty, gnarly old guys we get to see in the mountains and growing straight out of cliffs!
I only have a couple scanned from the Rockies this past summer, but here they are.
I've already seen some awesome old dome toppers on other threads, so post 'em if you got 'em.
I LOVE OLD TREES!!!!
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2009 - 02:18pm PT
|
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....
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2009 - 02:24pm PT
|
Oregon Cascades.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2009 - 02:27pm PT
|
Needles Firetower and Bonsai.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2009 - 02:29pm PT
|
Needles. Not the best tree picture, but cool anyway.
|
|
wtfd
climber
|
|
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...
|
|
SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
|
|
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.
|
|
Indianclimber
Trad climber
Lost Wages
|
|
Golden gate park
Muir woods
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2009 - 02:52pm PT
|
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!!
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2009 - 02:56pm PT
|
BlinnyTheNutJob,
Thanks girl, beautiful.
I was hoping you'd see the thread about my daughter....
|
|
SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
|
|
Tami, unkempt? No!
Outta control?
No way!
|
|
tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
|
|
Mountain hemlock, Montague Island, Prince William Sound.
Bansai, or not bansai? I came across this one on a small island off of Montague.
|
|
Indianclimber
Trad climber
Lost Wages
|
|
Talk about trees in a hurry
Guess where in the valley this one is
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2009 - 03:56pm PT
|
Paul, yeah definitely, definitely bonsai..yeah..definitely..
Great trees. I knew an Alaskan would come through.
Indianclimber,
I have no idea where the tree in a hurry is.
He's tryin' to get to the Mountain Room Bar before closing time?
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2009 - 03:59pm PT
|
Whoa, those are great. Especially that first one!!
Holy buckets, I can feel the age, hardship and wisdom just dripping off of it!
|
|
Indianclimber
Trad climber
Lost Wages
|
|
Running tree is on Royal Arches
|
|
Nefarius
Big Wall climber
Fresno
|
|
I dig trees too!
Kind of Tree Related...
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2009 - 04:08pm PT
|
Nefarius, beautiful.
Nice contribution!
|
|
MisterE
Trad climber
One Place or Another
|
|
Here's Phillip, my now-deceased semi-cascading green mountain pine in his place in my van:
and some shots from Huntington in LA a few weeks back:
Bridge and tree
synergy:
and your moment of zen:
|
|
midarockjock
climber
USA
|
|
?
http://engraved-on-his-hands.home.att.net/Stromata/Lganimal/Plants/Eucalyptusregnans-2e.htm
?
The tallest tree in the world I also believe is/was a Eucalyptus
in Australia. The tallest I have removed in CA was 157' being
a Camaldulensis. The largest Trunk I removed of this genus was
78" at legal dbh located in Lakewood CA. and only about 90' tall,
it was Globulus. The largest CA. wind row trees I have seen were
near Salinas and the Largest street trees of this genus were in
Riverside CA.
The largest species in the world that I removed made another
the largest in the world. The 1'st I climbed the 2'nd then
the largest blew over and was picked up with a 16 ton stinger
and Cat 910. Both Pinus Torreyana.
1. Was in Pasadena CA.
2. Was in Beverly Hills CA.
I don't mind if videos are posted without my name.
Trail of the 100 giants has some fun ones to climb. None
of the Giganteum there are 400' and I know of no Sempervirens
being 400'.
|
|
philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
|
|
This one is from Red Rock Nv. I believe it fell over after the heavy snow of last year. So it became a Banzai tree in a manner of speaking.
|
|
Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
|
|
I thought this would be bhodi tree thread.
Those eucalyptus get bigger than I ever knew.
|
|
Nefarius
Big Wall climber
Fresno
|
|
Thanks, Survival.
MisterE: Love those pics! Especially #3 - Any info on that?
A couple more:
While not a tree, I really dug how this guy was stickin' it out, doin' his own thing and surviving in the dunes...
|
|
tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
|
|
Here's a few more
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2009 - 05:33pm PT
|
Awesome you guys, just AWESOME!!
|
|
Nefarius
Big Wall climber
Fresno
|
|
Yeah, tons of great stuff in here. Still really want to know about the trees in MisterE's image #3. Those are rad!
"No Lois."
hahaha Amen, Tami!
|
|
tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
|
|
Not so much pics of great trees, but pics I like with trees in them.
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
|
|
Sometimes when they are not a beautiful tree they still have something to give....
Twisted
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
|
|
Wallace Creek on way to Whitney from Kern River...
|
|
MisterE
Trad climber
One Place or Another
|
|
Nef: the bonsai trees except for the first one are part of the permanent collection of Huntington. I didn't write down any info on the trees - sorry.
This one is a dead tree some how wedged between rocks in the last 10 feet of it's base and sticking out almost impossibly to where you can touch it on route:
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2009 - 06:58pm PT
|
Ah yes...peace.
Thanks you guys, this is really turning into what I hoped for.
Thanks Jerry, Is that one old leaner on top of Watkins??
Edit: On second thought, it looks too close for Watkins.
Excellent all the way around.
Edit:The one by the stream is truly bonsai!!
|
|
Jerry Dodrill
climber
Sebastopol, CA
|
|
Bonsai! Ironically, my aunt is a bonsai hunter up in Oregon. She "harvests" and resells the trees. tsk, tsk. Shameful.
Yes that is on Watkins.
|
|
Gobi
Trad climber
Orange CA
|
|
Some B&W's
How do I size these down? I'm sure I could figure it out but I'm really lazy
|
|
wtfd
climber
|
|
i think it was mr e a page back or so that had a nice jin on one of his specimens...good work
|
|
Captain...or Skully
Social climber
North of the Owyhees
|
|
Wood is a real cool medium to groove on LIFE!
Trees have to live where they are! That takes a certain kind of resolute strength, unimaginable to moving creatures........
Trees have Might.
|
|
Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
|
|
I like trees too -
|
|
MisterE
Trad climber
One Place or Another
|
|
That last picture makes me sad, Rick.
But I guess a necessary part of my reconciliation with the natural world as a carpenter. sigh
|
|
nita
climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
|
|
One of my favorite trees, Sycamores. Across the street from our house at Sycamore Pool, a paved portion of Big Chico Creek. A few salmon still manage to pass through...... picture from Andy (Timid T to some)....
Edit; andy flipped photo upside down 'cuz we like it that way.
|
|
MisterE
Trad climber
One Place or Another
|
|
Oooo! I am going to start a flipped photos thread! I got one - be sure and re-post Nita my friend! :^)
|
|
adam d
climber
CA
|
|
Valley Oak, Lopez Lake, CA
Witch Needle
N. Wonderland
|
|
Old&InTheWay
Trad climber
NC
|
|
Great thread!
Grandfather Mtn. NC
On top of Hoodwink
Phobos/Tuolumne
Tuolumne Grove
|
|
Captain...or Skully
Social climber
North of the Owyhees
|
|
Below the base of Angel Wings is a Mighty Juniper, gotta be 8-900 years old. Has this boulder cleaving it in two.Can't be more than 10 feet tall.
It don't care. It's got time to grow around The Wound.
Already well on it's way.
It'll be fine.Trees are mighty.
Made a fine base camp, too.
|
|
Risk
Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
|
|
Great thread. Fantastic images.
Fallen Monarch
Near Olmsted
Rodgers Lake
Benson Lake
Bennett Juniper
|
|
Jerry Dodrill
climber
Sebastopol, CA
|
|
I love the trees near Olmstead.
|
|
Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
|
|
Sunol regional park
Bristlecone Forest
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 7, 2009 - 01:43am PT
|
Hot Diggidy, I don't know where to start except to say I sure am glad all you Tacoites have better (Better Photographers) pictures than I do!
It's like going on the ultimate tree tour.
I love hanging out with you people.
|
|
MisterE
Trad climber
One Place or Another
|
|
You all are out of your tree, so to speak
;^}
|
|
Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
|
|
Oak bows, Sunol house
Pine on west face of Higher Cathedral Spire
Above Knob Hill upper Cascade Creek area
Arrowhead Arete
Sycamore I, Sunol regional park
Sycamore II, Sunol regional park
a Mt. Diablo trail
|
|
Jerry Dodrill
climber
Sebastopol, CA
|
|
Nice Ed!
Wine Country Trees:
More Bonsai, in fact, whole forest of them:
|
|
Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
|
|
you inspire Jerry... thanks!
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 7, 2009 - 02:33am PT
|
No doubt, you guys rock!!
|
|
Jerry Dodrill
climber
Sebastopol, CA
|
|
Uh-oh. The gig's up. Walleye raises the ante. ;-)
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 7, 2009 - 03:52am PT
|
Sweet, sweet, sweet.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 7, 2009 - 04:05am PT
|
Humble offering...
Maybe someday to be a mighty tree like the ones y'all are posting up.
Now back to the good stuff you all are bringin'!
|
|
MisterE
Trad climber
One Place or Another
|
|
Dr Suess inspired:
|
|
MisterE
Trad climber
One Place or Another
|
|
Just one more
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 7, 2009 - 10:14am PT
|
Peter,
That is so COOOL!! I love weirdness!
There is a tree at Arlington Nat. Cemetery that grows almost completey around a headstone. I have a picture of it somewhere!
|
|
MisterE
Trad climber
One Place or Another
|
|
Time for a story.
My friend Jason was working for the Superfund cleaning up this farm in rural New Jersey. A family had been taking barrels of toxic waste from various manufacturers and burying it on their property - even some nuclear waste. The farm was toxic as hell, and invariably the whole family died from poisoning.
The barrels of waste were rusted and leaking, and there was a particularly large concentration of a particular toxin that was this glowing lime green around an ancient oak near the barn. The tree was sickly looking, had few leaves, but was obviously still alive.
As they excavated the punctured, rusted and leaking barrels, it became apparent to the clean-up crew that this tree had somehow adapted to living off of this waste. Everyone was saddened as they realized the tree was as much a part of the poisonous landscape as the waste surrounding it, and it had to be cut down.
Jason said one person cried out as they cut into the tree, and it started oozing this lime green sap. It was literally feeding off the poison.
He also said that, at that moment, he had a new-found respect for the adaptability of the natural world, and especially that old oak.
|
|
Indianclimber
Trad climber
Lost Wages
|
|
Tree doing a handstand Zion
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 7, 2009 - 05:22pm PT
|
Walleye, what a beautiful picture.
George Harrison and many others said it. "All things must pass."
|
|
Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
|
|
T-wall.
|
|
dmalloy
Trad climber
eastside
|
|
a few more from California's White Mountains...
this here is the tree on this planet with which I have felt the most communion. I believe it is a Limber pine, and this photo does not really do it justice - just a gorgeous, shaggy, ancient being bursting with life
If you are trekking through the Whites and a cold, windy storm moves in, you will find shelter wherever you can. And who knows what sort of scene you will wake up to -
Old bristlecone skeleton that has been watching this view for centuries -
Another tree I love is right about where you rap down on the east side of Daff Dome.
I will make some requests - some of my other favorite trees are the Foxtail pines that grow along the trail from Onion Valley to Charlotte Dome. Gorgeous bark, enormous trunks - and I have no good photos of them. Anyone?
Also, any more photos of the gnarled junipers up above Olmsted Point? Jerry chipped in one, but there are so many amazing trees up there.
|
|
MisterE
Trad climber
One Place or Another
|
|
Here's another one - on the dome above the point:
|
|
dmalloy
Trad climber
eastside
|
|
and now for city trees....these were in the front yard of the previous house where we lived in Bishop - two elms. Jan 2, 2006 - some very un-Bishop-like weather -
and an oak after an ice storm in Durham, NC - I was 4 weeks after ACL reconstruction, the storm hit, the power went out. Temperature dropped down to about 8 degrees and there was no heat in my apartment, so my two cats and I huddled together on the couch with my sleeping bag all night. Somewhat of a terrifying experience, as the entire night was filled with the sounds of branches and trees cracking, breaking and falling to the ground. Many old trees died that night, clearing room for many young trees to find sunlight and grow.
Now I just realized that I have no good photo of the 80-100 year-old juniper in our front yard....I am going to have to fix that soon.
edit - nice score, MisterE.
funny that I have power lines in the top left corner of both of those photos, guess I am too lazy to crop.
|
|
MisterE
Trad climber
One Place or Another
|
|
Thanks! Here's another - I think it lives across from Tenaya Lake
|
|
dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
|
|
San Juan Trail parking
The Suicide "J" tree
|
|
john hansen
climber
|
|
They just so happened to be having the Cherry Blossom Festival in town today.
|
|
MisterE
Trad climber
One Place or Another
|
|
I really do love trees!
This thread is the best!
Joshua Tree at sunset
Tough desert tree at Winslow Wall, AZ
Smith rock:
Trees in the mist Skagit Valley WA
Tree and rock at The Cathedral, St George UT
Edit: Nice, John!
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 7, 2009 - 08:31pm PT
|
You guys are blowing me away!
I think it was a Bob D. black and white of an old gnarly that got me going on this awhile back.
So many beautiful trees.
*Mister E
*Jaybro
*JohnHansen
*Dee ee
*DMalloy (Tent hiding under the old men...holy cow)
*Walleye
*Indianclimber
*JerryDodrill
Too many to remember!!!
Thanks!
|
|
john hansen
climber
|
|
Coconuts are trees too,,,
Most of you have probably seen these trees,,
|
|
Risk
Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
|
|
Tarzan’s Treehouse
Strolling below through Adventure Land on my 50th birthday
|
|
justthemaid
climber
Los Angeles
|
|
Thailand.
Now that's a tree... (same tree in both pics.)
|
|
SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
|
|
John Hansen, those were beautiful!
|
|
neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
|
|
hey there survival and all... say, our family, me and my brothers, we all loved climging trees... and so did my kids...
now, my mom, she taught us to love trees, but i dont reckoned she climbed them ... she planted them, and pointed them out to us and she grew up, on some wooded acres, where she enjoyed them...
*----someone, on the "welcome mark chapman" post/thread, has a really neat picture of my brother climbing up a tree---if i remember right...
*wonder if someone can post it here.... i think i copied it, for keeping, but i don't know where it is... that would really be neat---thanks, whoever, has it...
:)
ahhhhhhhh, love THEM trees....
|
|
MisterE
Trad climber
One Place or Another
|
|
That's a beautiful tree, Maidy. Like a limb of the Living Earth, sinewy armed.
The thing that struck me tonight about this thread is that it brings a certain quiet living majesty to a usually twittersome board.
It's like a breath of fresh air.
Thank you all.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 8, 2009 - 12:19am PT
|
Hi neebee!
An old man with a friend.
A tree with a great view of the Organs.
He told me that he picked that spot because of the view...
Edit: Nice comment Mr. E
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 8, 2009 - 12:28am PT
|
TMJesse, that picture of Benson Lake is one of my faves!
Too many to list them all.
It seems we are all tree fans!
|
|
neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
|
|
hey there say... does anyone here, know of the CORK tree, in santa cruz... somewhere inward, aways from the beach, in near some shops, somewhere... ?
just wondering...
*also, great clumps of eucalyptus trees, in the ??saratoga, los gatos area, in calif---not sure if i remember the area, right---but then, this was 40 years ago, are they still there...
*also, a great tree, solo, on one of the walking trails, in the almaden hills.... (near the ??quick silver mine park)....?
just neat little things to see, locally, in the surrounding areas of san jose....
*most folks have seen the 'ghost tree' of the monterey area, unless it is gone by now---it was on OLD postcards, back when we saw it 40 years ago....
|
|
neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
|
|
hey there survival... say, great share!
great share, all, too...
walnut trees were always great local finds, 45 years back, too, in san jose...
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 8, 2009 - 10:55pm PT
|
Yo Buggum,
I know you have some tree pix, c'mon...
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
|
|
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 9, 2009 - 02:02pm PT
|
Thank you sir Reilly!
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
|
|
Survival,
I know this J Tree juniper is bowing to Cap'n Skully!
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 9, 2009 - 02:32pm PT
|
Why can't I find the pic I'm looking for?
Oh well.
Cool moss/lichen tree. Some of you have actually seen it in person.
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
|
|
You want mossy? Here's Old Mossy...
|
|
Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
|
|
Brave little tree in Bryce Canyon:
|
|
dwell
climber
Pollock Pines
|
|
Forgot how much they mean to me. Thanks
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 10, 2009 - 12:46am PT
|
Sweet.
Larry, that IS a brave little tree!
Timid,
Those two rows of palms remind me of Full Metal Jacket....
|
|
MisterE
Trad climber
One Place or Another
|
|
|
Feb 10, 2009 - 01:10pm PT
|
Really nice stuff! Just a couple more, from the descent off Snow Creek Wall in Leavenworth:
And the tree start to Oski in Sedona:
|
|
Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
|
|
|
Feb 15, 2009 - 01:09pm PT
|
Last summer I posted pics of an 80-foot white pine in our backyard that took a direct
lightning strike. A strip of bark about 40' long had been blasted off the trunk, and
several troughs radiated out from the base, where dirt had been blown out of the ground.
I happened to walk past the the tree a few days ago. Its crown is still green and I think it's
doing fine. Like many trees in this thread, with a bit of good luck it could outlive us all.
|
|
Gobi
Trad climber
Orange CA
|
|
|
Feb 15, 2009 - 01:39pm PT
|
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 15, 2009 - 06:02pm PT
|
Chiloe, I have seen some amazing lightning strikes over the years too. It's amazing those buggers survive it.
Talk about TOUGH!!
Gobi, that's a beautiful picture mate!!
|
|
neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
|
|
|
Feb 16, 2009 - 01:50am PT
|
hey there survival and all...say, chappy and all of us just love to tackle a good tree climb...
here is pic, borrowed from jorge/george, by permission:
us chapmans just love trees, firt my brother here, and then, me:
COURSE, as you can see, i am not climbing this "itty bitty"--it is the TOP-CUT off of a tree in the woods, for christmas (the other tree grew back right-fine, too (back in 2001):
EDIT: OOOPS, this was a litte OFF-SHOOT... the cut-off tree, was the NEXT year.....
edit: hmmm, say, that was supposed to be a SMALL pic, as it was originally, somehow it came out TOO BIG and distorted some---will try to fix it later.... sorry...
|
|
dipper
climber
|
|
|
Feb 16, 2009 - 02:17am PT
|
|
|
neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
|
|
|
Feb 16, 2009 - 02:25am PT
|
hey there... great tree photos, dipper....
|
|
Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
|
|
|
Feb 16, 2009 - 02:28am PT
|
Dipper, you stole those from Miles Vandero, right?
just kidding, but I get a similar feeling.
|
|
dipper
climber
|
|
|
Feb 16, 2009 - 02:38am PT
|
Nee Bee,
Glad you liked em.
Here are 3 more
Never heard of Miles before, I'll have to google him...
|
|
roy
Social climber
New Zealand -> Santa Barbara
|
|
|
Feb 16, 2009 - 03:05am PT
|
Hi,
A few from a winter ski trip in the ancient Bristlecone pine forrest (White Mountains, CA).
Cheers, Roy
|
|
neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
|
|
|
Feb 16, 2009 - 03:24am PT
|
hey there all... say, one of the best views i got of trees, though not their powerful, yet, ever humbleness of simple sillouets and towering along the angled horizon-line) was this:
looking over a crag, at alpine lake, from a high back hill:
saw the whole lead-in to the carson? wilderness...(small bit of meadow, before it, i think, off ot the side)
all trees, but going from taller, down, in perspective, and then the whole sea of them...
you all have seen something similar, while up on your climbs, no doubt.... but there was nothing else, about... no other landmarks... veryyyyyyyyy strong tree-feel...
*had no camera :(
|
|
JOEY.F
Social climber
sebastopol
|
|
|
Feb 16, 2009 - 03:29am PT
|
God, those trees are wicked beautiful, love the pics!
And there's Neebee! Yeah for good spirit.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 16, 2009 - 05:38am PT
|
neebee, Dipper and Roy,
Awesome pictures!
So good to see Chappy on a tree. Made me smile.
And those old gnarlies...yeah!
|
|
tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
|
|
|
Feb 17, 2009 - 12:17pm PT
|
Kids just love those hollowed out cottonwood trees
Spruce Island, which is just the North of Kodiak recieved about 12" of ash from the 1912 Novarupta eruption, the largest eruption of the 20th century. The nutrient rich ash is a great feed stock for moss.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 17, 2009 - 12:34pm PT
|
Paul,
Very cool pix. Wow, what incredible moss!
That last cottonwood shot looks like one out by Eagle River visitor center that I've had my kids in!
|
|
tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
|
|
|
Feb 17, 2009 - 12:47pm PT
|
Survival,
Yep, you guessed the second hollow tree. The first tree is at Firebird Falls by Eklutna.
The pictures really don't do justice to the moss. We took some pics of the trees on Green Island in PWS this summer, I'll have to dig them up. It's another incredibly mossy area.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 17, 2009 - 12:53pm PT
|
Woohooo! You go Paul!
|
|
tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
|
|
|
Feb 17, 2009 - 01:27pm PT
|
Survival,
In the supertopo tradition of going o/t, do you know Brian Horner? He taught airmen evasiona and survival for awhile, then started his school Learn to Return. I took a few classes from him ~10 years ago.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 17, 2009 - 02:24pm PT
|
Paul,
Yes. I was an Air Force instructor also.
Taught overseas for a few years, and the was the number two at LTR for 9 years. I left in 1999.
It didn't end well......
|
|
tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
|
|
|
Feb 17, 2009 - 02:56pm PT
|
Sorry to hear that, I could see someone with such a personality as being tough to work with. As I recall I took the underwater escape training course in 99, maybe July?
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 17, 2009 - 03:13pm PT
|
Ha! I left in Dec. 99, maybe we've met!
|
|
neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
|
|
|
Feb 17, 2009 - 09:43pm PT
|
hey there survival.. thanks for the note...
say, dipper, thanks for more pics... reminded me of driftwood, but GIANT SIZE...
my mom and i loved to collect little pieces of driftwood...
awwwwwwww, trees.... saw some lovely branches against the sky, the other day... :)
|
|
neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
|
|
|
Feb 18, 2009 - 05:11am PT
|
hey there all, say ... i had to come back and see these again, before the night was over...
i missed the moss trees, due to my slow download.... glad i came back...
man, you all sure got great cameras!...
i really do still love the lone-statue-type pics...
:)
|
|
Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
|
|
|
Feb 18, 2009 - 09:10am PT
|
Last weekend:
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 18, 2009 - 12:45pm PT
|
Nice work Chiloe, I see you're getting out.....
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
|
|
|
Feb 18, 2009 - 04:08pm PT
|
Mt Baldy Menorrah
Twisted
|
|
Indianclimber
Trad climber
Lost Wages
|
|
|
Feb 18, 2009 - 11:22pm PT
|
Namibia
|
|
dipper
climber
|
|
|
Feb 19, 2009 - 12:10am PT
|
Up close and personal. First three from the Kern Plateau, next three from Woods Lake area.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 19, 2009 - 01:42am PT
|
Reilly, indian and dipper,
menorrah, namimbia, and fingerprint soul wood SWEEEET!
|
|
Indianclimber
Trad climber
Lost Wages
|
|
|
Feb 19, 2009 - 02:06am PT
|
I love the close-ups
|
|
Indianclimber
Trad climber
Lost Wages
|
|
|
Feb 19, 2009 - 02:09am PT
|
Gull Lake
|
|
Indianclimber
Trad climber
Lost Wages
|
|
|
Feb 19, 2009 - 02:19am PT
|
Up by Duck Creek Ut
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
|
|
|
Feb 19, 2009 - 02:24am PT
|
Indianclimber and dipper - very nice!
Bark!
Bugs!
Burl Ives
Blaze
|
|
Indianclimber
Trad climber
Lost Wages
|
|
|
Feb 19, 2009 - 02:28am PT
|
Red Rock after a fire
|
|
Indianclimber
Trad climber
Lost Wages
|
|
|
Feb 19, 2009 - 02:29am PT
|
What a great thread
|
|
dipper
climber
|
|
|
Feb 19, 2009 - 02:39am PT
|
3 more for the macro fans. These are from near my secret lake with pretty fish in Kings Canyon National Park.
|
|
neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
|
|
|
Feb 19, 2009 - 05:42am PT
|
hey there all.... well my my... WOW... i DID find the cork oak in santa cruz...
dont know if any of you calif's ever saw it... we saw it many times when we went sailing with our dad...
here is the link---PLUS--this link has many links to some special trees, in other states... historical, etc..
this second link is to the gilroy gardens... some odd neat trees there...
here you all go:
(odd trees first... i will be back in a sec with the cork oak)
http://www.gilroygardens.org/circus.html
|
|
neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
|
|
|
Feb 19, 2009 - 05:44am PT
|
hey there... say, i somehow backed up wrong and did not find my post... well, here is the link to the cork oak:
many neat history notes about all these trees... it seems that cork oaks were plansted by a guy named levi starbuck...
very interesting stuff:
http://www.tclf.org/landslide/2007/cork_oak/index.html
here is the history note about the man that brought these trees here:
http://www.tclf.org/landslide/2007/cork_oak/history.html
my mom and i just loved seeing that ol' tree...
can you believe it, they were gonna' take it down for a modern gas station! :O
*hmmmm, i have been out of touch.. hope it is still there... i did not even check the "learn" more section, or the "threat" section... (all links at the bottom of the pics page...
have fun...
|
|
perswig
climber
|
|
|
Feb 19, 2009 - 12:17pm PT
|
Wow -nice additions. Dipper's tryptich of rings echoes (pun?) "The Scream".
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 19, 2009 - 12:28pm PT
|
Whoa, this page alone is worth viewing the whole thread.
|
|
SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
|
|
|
Feb 19, 2009 - 12:59pm PT
|
It just gets better and better. . .
WOW!!!!
|
|
tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
|
|
|
Feb 19, 2009 - 01:10pm PT
|
This is Green Island in Prince William Sound (actually a small island just to the West of the main island) It was overcast the time we were out there, so the pictures don't do justice to how lush and mossy it is.
|
|
klinefelter
Boulder climber
Bishop, CA
|
|
|
Feb 19, 2009 - 01:10pm PT
|
A particularly nice Cali Red Fur near the upper San Joaquin River. Ranger-wife in foreground.
|
|
dipper
climber
|
|
Three more close-ups from Nine Lakes Basin in Sequoia National Park
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
|
|
Perswig,
I've never seen such a perfusion of fungi!
Dip,
You da Grain Man!
|
|
neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
|
|
hey there timid toprope.. say, those cork oaks are really fun to see up close, too....
there were a few planted somewhere, else, too.... i saw them when one of my brothers got married... had fun showing it to the little kids...
thanks for the note where they are growing... :)
wow---neat trees here, you all!
|
|
dipper
climber
|
|
Got Wood?
More from 9 LakesBasin
The low spot on the Great Western Divide behind the tree is Kaweah Gap. At the bottom of that shady
slope back there is Precipice Lake, made famous by Ansel Adams, and again by Vern Clevenger.
|
|
dipper
climber
|
|
Wow Nita,
I don't believe I ever saw that pattern thread. Very cool images in there.
If I could get a helo to resupply me, I'd stay in the Sierra all summer and take pictures. That place is magical and nearly infinite in scope and beauty.
If I wasn't such a cold wimp, I'd stay up there year-round.
Some day I will.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 7, 2009 - 10:27am PT
|
Awesome! Thanks dipper and nita.
|
|
Jerry Dodrill
climber
Sebastopol, CA
|
|
^^^
ROFLMAO!
Now that's the best tree joke I've ever heard!!!
|
|
Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
|
|
Me too! Though I can't recall any other tree jokes.
|
|
perswig
climber
|
|
I didn't think this tree was singular, but the dogs had other ideas.
Edit for "Great joke!"
Dale
|
|
Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
Sprocketville
|
|
Came across some deadfall, so I pull out a chunk, down below Underworld Rock over there at the playground.
Never seen such red, don't know if it was the lighting or what.
|
|
Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
|
|
Nah - they're deciding what vintage of coyote pee is on the tree.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 9, 2009 - 02:32pm PT
|
Check this guy out!
Forbidden City, Bejing, China.
|
|
nita
climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
|
|
|
Mar 11, 2009 - 10:49pm PT
|
Cindy Kennec swinging on a vine, Montserrat- lesser Antilles.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 11, 2009 - 11:45pm PT
|
That is a very cool picture nita!
|
|
DJS
Trad climber
|
|
|
Mar 19, 2009 - 08:41pm PT
|
BUMP!
|
|
DJS
Trad climber
|
|
|
Mar 19, 2009 - 09:11pm PT
|
Bump
|
|
Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
|
|
|
Apr 11, 2009 - 06:25pm PT
|
I know that place!
Haven't been there in 35 years, but the dihedral high above is distinctive.
|
|
goatboy smellz
climber
dirty south
|
|
|
Apr 11, 2009 - 06:28pm PT
|
Oh yeah it does kinda stand out!
|
|
Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
|
|
|
Apr 11, 2009 - 07:08pm PT
|
Yep, there it was in ... 1971. The climber is Bill Roos.
|
|
Indianclimber
Trad climber
Lost Wages
|
|
|
Apr 21, 2009 - 05:11pm PT
|
Bump
Just found this stunning tree and few more like it in the lobby of the new Encore casino,anyone know what it is?
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Apr 21, 2009 - 11:30pm PT
|
Very cool! No I don't know what it is.....
|
|
Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
Sprocketville
|
|
|
Apr 22, 2009 - 02:13am PT
|
There is a 100 foot redwood in the back yard, all this time i was going to the gym.
you can duplicate all kinds of weird routes in those tree limbs.
much more 3D.
so 30 times up the tree = 1 el cap.
no need to change into shoes.
creeps the neighbors out, they think i am a sneakin and a peakin.
but i did accidently find out where the lady downstairs works.
she took off from lunch to go back to work while i was in the tree.
turns out, as i suspect, because i use to hear noises downstairs when her car was not there, kind of creepy, anyway, from the tree you can follow cars all over the hood, so long>short, she works two blocks away!
so the creepy sounds for the last 5 years like an edgar allen poe apt, the monkeys paw or some weird sh#t, she was creepin back on foot from work, Mystery Solved by the tree.
so trees are good.
|
|
Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
Sprocketville
|
|
|
Apr 22, 2009 - 09:25pm PT
|
so if you put Ron Kauk in a pair of golf shoes, do you think he could crack climb that redwood to the first ring of branches?
|
|
Jim Herrington
Mountain climber
New York, NY
|
|
In NYC, in the late '80s... a city ripe with photographic possibilities, I nevertheless decided to photograph this lowly pine tree that I stumbled upon, tucked away in a nondescript part of Central Park.
A few years later I was cutting through the park to get somewhere and, "Hey, there's that tree!". Snap. Another photo. A few years later, ditto, repeat. Last year, once again, "Sh#t, that tree!" It's in an odd part of the park, and there's not really a regular path that takes you past it, but I keep finding it somehow, or it keeps finding me.
Photo on left, late 1980s - photo on right, 2008.
©2009 Jim Herrington
|
|
scottpedition
climber
|
|
I always love driving by this one around sunset...
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
|
|
Mt Stuart Tree
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 4, 2009 - 01:58am PT
|
Wow! Those are some amazing shots.
Jim, I found it very interesting that you didn't "take out" the little object at the base of the tree in the second photo. Very cool.
|
|
mrtropy
Trad climber
Nor Cal
|
|
One of my better Pines
Spring time
Sunset hiking out from the Scrotum
|
|
Tim Camuti
Trad climber
CA
|
|
From a great snowshoe outing with myself and Bob Dominick. The trees are Sierra Junipers.
|
|
Rcklzrd
Trad climber
San Juan Capistrano
|
|
Dead Cypress trunk on 17 Mile Drive - loved the texture
|
|
kinnikinik
Trad climber
B.C.
|
|
Jon at the 2009 Eldred adopt-a-crag
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
|
|
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 6, 2009 - 04:07am PT
|
Whoa, those are too cool!
|
|
Nate D
climber
San Francisco
|
|
|
Nov 24, 2009 - 12:01am PT
|
Like climber's crave the vertical, this one prefers the horizontal.
Very alive and kicking.
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
|
|
|
Nov 29, 2009 - 02:22pm PT
|
Foggy Giant
|
|
Ensonik
climber
|
|
|
Nov 29, 2009 - 03:36pm PT
|
|
|
Prezwoodz
Big Wall climber
Anchorage
|
|
|
Nov 29, 2009 - 04:20pm PT
|
Oh my another picture thread! Well, here goes.
Louisiana
Trees as a home
Redwoodz
And the inside of a Redwood
Super long branch in Nicaragua
Honduras
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
|
|
Back Pocket
|
|
Tork
climber
Yosemite
|
|
|
|
matty
Trad climber
los arbor
|
|
A tree in Yose, guess which one...
|
|
Edge
Trad climber
New Durham, NH
|
|
I made this from one exquisite log of tiger maple.
I hope I did justice to the donating tree.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 8, 2009 - 02:57pm PT
|
I'd say you did.
That is freekin' gorgeous!
Man that makes my meatball carpentry look sooooo laaaaame!
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
|
|
Dood, you did that tree proud!
|
|
dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
|
|
Tork, that baby is dancin' on tiptoes!
|
|
Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
|
|
Fine craftsmanship, Edge!
|
|
mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
|
|
Trees seem to grow in the strangest of places...
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
|
|
There's no denying tree power...
|
|
Jerry Dodrill
climber
Sebastopol, CA
|
|
|
Dec 23, 2009 - 07:45pm PT
|
Bump
|
|
spectreman
Trad climber
CO
|
|
|
Dec 23, 2009 - 08:21pm PT
|
|
|
spectreman
Trad climber
CO
|
|
|
Dec 23, 2009 - 08:25pm PT
|
|
|
HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
|
|
|
Dec 23, 2009 - 08:44pm PT
|
Loved Ed's pic of the trees on Arrowhead Arete.
The ancient Sierra Junipers (so that's what they are) all along the ridge to the north of Carson Pass are beautiful in any light.
Has anyone got a good shot of El Cap Tree? Looking at it last month from the meadown it doesn't seem to be doing as well as I remember when I climbed to it in the '70s
|
|
jmap
Social climber
NC
|
|
|
Dec 23, 2009 - 08:47pm PT
|
|
|
Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
|
|
|
Dec 24, 2009 - 11:47am PT
|
|
|
bullrider
Trad climber
Bozangeles, montucky
|
|
|
Dec 24, 2009 - 02:22pm PT
|
Bonsaiii!
|
|
MisterE
Social climber
Across Town From Easy Street
|
|
|
Jan 29, 2010 - 09:51pm PT
|
Bump
|
|
happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
|
|
|
Jan 29, 2010 - 09:57pm PT
|
|
|
Srbphoto
Trad climber
Kennewick wa
|
|
|
Jan 29, 2010 - 10:49pm PT
|
|
|
happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
|
|
|
Jan 29, 2010 - 10:56pm PT
|
Nice to see your tree has cloned itself and come over here! Such a nice tree, it should be in both the threads! Great photo.
|
|
Srbphoto
Trad climber
Kennewick wa
|
|
|
Jan 30, 2010 - 01:31am PT
|
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
|
|
|
Jan 30, 2010 - 02:04am PT
|
Lava Beds St Park (No CA)
|
|
Srbphoto
Trad climber
Kennewick wa
|
|
|
Jan 30, 2010 - 02:08am PT
|
Reilly - nice! I love that area. I just wish I had done some work up there.
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
|
|
|
Jan 30, 2010 - 02:24am PT
|
Srb,
I take that as high praise; your stuff is really top notch!
For the record I cheated; it is HDR. No rig of mine can grab
that EV latitude.
|
|
Srbphoto
Trad climber
Kennewick wa
|
|
|
Jan 30, 2010 - 02:26am PT
|
Reilly - never mind :)
It's still nice!
|
|
Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
|
|
|
Jan 30, 2010 - 02:27am PT
|
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2010 - 02:31am PT
|
|
|
Srbphoto
Trad climber
Kennewick wa
|
|
|
Jan 30, 2010 - 05:32pm PT
|
Thanks for the nice comments! I am just starting to scan these prints so I'll try and post more as I get more trees done.
Reilly - It doesn't matter how you catch it, as long as you do!!!
|
|
Srbphoto
Trad climber
Kennewick wa
|
|
For the tree photograph lovers: A book I like is John Sexton's "Listen to the Trees". John is an excellent photographer and a master printer. His reproductions are better than most people's prints. A lot of his images are from the Valley. If you get a chance, check it out (or his other books). Better yet, if you get a chance to see actual prints, GO! They are truly beautiful.
|
|
d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
|
|
tree hugger bump.
|
|
Srbphoto
Trad climber
Kennewick wa
|
|
I think that picture explains how there can be Bigfoot's (Bigfeet?) without large sustainable breeding populations.
|
|
d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
|
|
touche srb!
these ol' gals was to rough to get any action from.
|
|
Euroford
Trad climber
chicago
|
|
i am LOVIN this thread.
|
|
Srbphoto
Trad climber
Kennewick wa
|
|
these ol' gals was to rough to get any action from.
Aren't those remembered the most fondly though?
|
|
d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
|
|
true srb, so very true.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 1, 2010 - 04:02pm PT
|
If you've never been to the National Arboretum, you should go.
Everyone should see that place once in their life.
|
|
couchmaster
climber
pdx
|
|
We took this one down with some big whipsaws so we could count the rings and learn the age for science. It's always sad when this happens and you can't count it off.
Except we did get some fine firewood out of the deal of course.
kidding:-)
|
|
Srbphoto
Trad climber
Kennewick wa
|
|
survival - those bonsais are awesome. Are they yours?
|
|
Srbphoto
Trad climber
Kennewick wa
|
|
Couldn't you count the rings with a core sample?
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 1, 2010 - 04:09pm PT
|
I wish!!
Unfortunately, I gave all mine away when we left DC.
I'm starting over in NM.
Those are actually from the Nat Arboretum.
They have 3 HUGE pavillions of bonsai!
Check this out. This one is 400 years old!!
People have been pruning this tree since the early 1600's.
Unfreekin'believable.
|
|
Srbphoto
Trad climber
Kennewick wa
|
|
Reilly - I saw the most recent issue of Outdoor Photographer. On the cover was a headline about the "secret weapon" of the pros. Using a HDR to capture images with really wide tonal ranges. I saw that and thought of your image.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 2, 2010 - 12:33am PT
|
Srb,
Your tree pix are amazing. Thanks for sharing.
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
|
|
SRB,
HDR narrows the gap a little until Santa brings me my Hasselblad with
a Phase One 60MB back, lol.
|
|
Srbphoto
Trad climber
Kennewick wa
|
|
You better be REALLY good this year!
Thanks for the compliments.
|
|
Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
|
|
I've gone through this entire thread and have not found the tree mentioned in TM Herbert's Appreciation thread. I may have missed it, but I'll refresh your memory anyway:
Herbert can be and often is a very stubborn person. He has his way of doing things and it is near impossible to change his mind. He has his rituals and don’t try to modify them. I don’t know how many times he has insisted that I stop at the dwarf Jumiper (or Cedar?) on the descent off of Stately Pleasure Dome. “You’ve got to look at this tree. It’s almost as wide as it is tall.” I have repeatedly told him as we approached the tree that I am aware of its aspect ratio and that he is merely repeating himself. To no avail, “You’ve got to look at this tree. It’s almost as wide as it is tall.”
Sorry, no picture.
|
|
Srbphoto
Trad climber
Kennewick wa
|
|
Don - great story about TM. I guess you know how my wife feels :)
|
|
bmacd
Trad climber
Beautiful BC
|
|
|
Feb 15, 2010 - 11:22pm PT
|
add a line here
another here
|
|
Srbphoto
Trad climber
Kennewick wa
|
|
|
Feb 16, 2010 - 02:00am PT
|
maybe more about the table but lots o' trees anyway
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
|
|
|
Feb 16, 2010 - 02:03am PT
|
Yes, that table speaks volumes.
Paiute Pass aspens...
Slide Aspen
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 16, 2010 - 04:04am PT
|
Wow Reilly...those are BRIGHT!
|
|
Srbphoto
Trad climber
Kennewick wa
|
|
|
Feb 16, 2010 - 05:20pm PT
|
An old one (the picture)...
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
|
|
|
Feb 16, 2010 - 05:26pm PT
|
Survival,
I know, hope it didn't trigger a flashback.
They said stuff like that to Renoir too. (lol)
|
|
c_vultaggio
Trad climber
new york
|
|
|
Feb 24, 2010 - 10:23am PT
|
|
|
Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
|
|
|
Feb 24, 2010 - 11:07am PT
|
tree bouldering.
tree big wall.
|
|
Srbphoto
Trad climber
Kennewick wa
|
|
|
Feb 24, 2010 - 11:31am PT
|
nice shot of Muir Woods. There's so much more to redwood forests than big trees
|
|
tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
|
|
|
Feb 24, 2010 - 12:31pm PT
|
Don't recall if I posted these before
|
|
bmacd
Trad climber
Beautiful BC
|
|
|
Feb 24, 2010 - 03:51pm PT
|
...
...
|
|
Bob D'A
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
|
|
|
Feb 24, 2010 - 04:01pm PT
|
Panama...
|
|
Srbphoto
Trad climber
Kennewick wa
|
|
|
Feb 24, 2010 - 04:35pm PT
|
Not a tree but in the redwood forest
|
|
Srbphoto
Trad climber
Kennewick wa
|
|
|
Feb 28, 2010 - 09:19pm PT
|
|
|
Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
|
|
|
Mar 23, 2010 - 01:57pm PT
|
|
|
Edge
Trad climber
New Durham, NH
|
|
|
Mar 23, 2010 - 02:07pm PT
|
Treebeard from Glacier Bay, AK.
|
|
Edge
Trad climber
New Durham, NH
|
|
|
Mar 23, 2010 - 03:26pm PT
|
An ancient scan from 1982?
|
|
Edge
Trad climber
New Durham, NH
|
|
|
Apr 29, 2010 - 10:42am PT
|
This majestic maple has resided in front of my house for decades longer than I can imagine. Hollow on the road side, and dropping her dying limbs, she still provides welcome shade in the Summer and a welcoming branch to hoards of passing birds.
We used to tap her for maple syrup, and this one tree could produce 80 gallons of sap from three taps. That was enough for 2 1/2 gallons of syrup!
Her sister maple, located just 100 feet away, is on her last legs, but still sets leaves and her cavities are annual nesting spots for woodpeckers and other birds. One year she housed a family of mockingbirds, and whenever the neighbor's cat would get within 50 feet of the tree, a mockingbird would swoop down and peck the cat on it's head. This happened multiple times a day. Our cat got pecked once, and then knew to swing a wide berth.
The town wants us to take her down because they are worried about branches falling on parked cars. I asked the selectmen if they had similar policies for the elderly in town?
Besides, she has a magnificent spirit. Can you see the timeless visage?
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Apr 29, 2010 - 11:45am PT
|
The town wants us to take her down because they are worried about branches falling on parked cars. I asked the selectmen if they had similar policies for the elderly in town?
Besides, she has a magnificent spirit. Can you see the timeless visage?
Ho man, that's perfect!
This 100 yr old cottonwood provides shade and a home for Raccoons, Kestrels, woodpeckers, tons of small birds, and even the occasional highballing cat!
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Apr 29, 2010 - 11:49am PT
|
Edge,
Admit it. You are secretly pining for the city to make you cut it down so you can make something beautiful from it (after you sticker it for 5 years).
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Apr 29, 2010 - 11:57am PT
|
Wow, Kat, I'd no idea Western Reds grew in Montana and especially to that size! That must be the rain forest of Montana? Where pleas?
edit: duh, read the fine print
|
|
Edge
Trad climber
New Durham, NH
|
|
|
Apr 29, 2010 - 12:17pm PT
|
Edge,
Admit it. You are secretly pining for the city to make you cut it down so you can make something beautiful from it (after you sticker it for 5 years).
Or you could say I'm mapling for that to happen.
Actually not. I really like having it as a presence between my property and the street. Whenever she drops a large limb, as old maples tend to do, I use it in the fireplace. I hope to have the house sold and move to Colorado long before anything so severe happens to these trees.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 16, 2010 - 05:32pm PT
|
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Jun 16, 2010 - 06:22pm PT
|
Whoa Survival,
I thought I'd covered every back road in New Mexico.
How'd I miss those places? Nice!
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 16, 2010 - 06:52pm PT
|
Reilly, that's because they're not in New Mexico....HA!
Lolli, Blue Rain, I love it.
|
|
Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
|
|
|
Jun 16, 2010 - 07:35pm PT
|
|
|
guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
|
|
|
Jun 16, 2010 - 09:17pm PT
|
Where be the rum mates?
|
|
S.Leeper
Sport climber
Austin, Texas
|
|
|
Jun 16, 2010 - 09:49pm PT
|
There is unrest in the forest, there is trouble with the trees...
|
|
neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
|
|
|
Jun 16, 2010 - 09:59pm PT
|
hey there say... i just LOVE it when the tree thread is up...
say, lolli.. i love the wysteria... the blue rain...
i have always wanted a huge on just like that, over my roof, too...
oh my... this is my speical day to see one...
i have a few local trees i am trying to put now... will see how this goes, as to upload time, i had been makeing things small, but not small enough, so i have a lot of re-do's to do... :O
wonderful trees, you all, as to this newest installment...
:)
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 16, 2010 - 11:51pm PT
|
|
|
Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Seriously, Man, I didn't know she was Your sister.
|
|
|
Jun 17, 2010 - 12:08am PT
|
Cache River, near Brinkley, Arkansas.
The Ivory Bills live there. Still!
|
|
neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
|
|
|
Jun 17, 2010 - 12:34am PT
|
hey there say, well... okay, i got a few to add, but mind you, they are just the bits of trees here on the block where ol' patty ann marie and i walk...
they keep us happy until we can get across town and see the real CLUMPS of trees... :)
at least we HAVE some of these big woodsy trees here, though and we are most glad... some are yard-ones, left from the woods...
here we go, some yard versions, trying to satisfy our hearts:
now this one, is on the edge of a yard, that has taken in the woods
as part of its property...
the better woods are on the other side of town, but his area, is still tree-ed up enough to feel good...
(the above, is our favorite overhang... has a mossy woods feeling, as we pass on under it...
now, these are just views to enjoy as i look upward...
(trees do look really neat that way, too)...
this is TWO tree banches, in one view...
looking more into the "thick of things" :)
and lastly, back to the wooded area, for a treat, but
first... here is a tree top from the grandkid's house,
other side of town---many neat big trees here, but, also,
many are missing branches... :(
but they are still majestic, reaching up to the sky...
here is the last neat treat--like mirrored twins... but
in the tree world... mirrored twins, are like identical
twins, but one has more left handedness, and one has more
right handedness...
so here you all go:
twin sassafras, mirrored image type trees...
curved out, opposite each other, neat find, huh? ;)
wow, i finally did it... happy happy... :)
happy supertopo eve to you all...
:)
*patty's favorite tree, are squirrle trees... ;))
|
|
neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
|
|
|
Jun 17, 2010 - 12:39am PT
|
hey there ol' captain... or skully... wow, what lovely water trees....
:)
say, there is a really neat weeping willow here, that reflects perfect in the waterway here, but so far, i can't get a clear shot of it yet...
will keep trying...
thanks for the neat share...
:)
|
|
S.Leeper
Sport climber
Austin, Texas
|
|
|
Jun 17, 2010 - 12:43am PT
|
...For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their please.
The trouble with the maples,
(And they're quite convinced they're right)
They say the oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light.
But the oaks can't help their feelings
If they like the way they're made.
And they wonder why the maples
Can't be happy in their shade.
There is trouble in the forest,
And the creatures all have fled,
As the maples scream "Oppression!"
And the oaks just shake their heads
So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights.
"The oaks are just too greedy;
We will make them give us light."
Now there's no more oak oppression,
For they passed a noble law,
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw.
|
|
Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Seriously, Man, I didn't know she was Your sister.
|
|
|
Jun 17, 2010 - 12:43am PT
|
Dig it, NeeBee. I planted a little Cottonwood "stick" (the tiny sprout) in my backyard 4 years ago. Ain't no stick no more.
It's a tree, by gosh. It's 25 feet tall.
and growing!
|
|
goatboy smellz
climber
Nederland
|
|
|
Jun 17, 2010 - 12:58am PT
|
the black canyon
needle rock
|
|
MisterE
Social climber
|
|
|
Jun 17, 2010 - 10:14am PT
|
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 17, 2010 - 10:35am PT
|
Awesome you guys!!
|
|
tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
|
|
|
Jun 17, 2010 - 12:41pm PT
|
Granny knot
|
|
goatboy smellz
climber
Nederland
|
|
|
Jun 17, 2010 - 01:11pm PT
|
Thanks eKat, it was a crop from a point&shoot.
moooo...
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 17, 2010 - 02:29pm PT
|
moooo yer own self Goatboy!!
|
|
Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
|
|
|
Jun 17, 2010 - 03:01pm PT
|
i make my living as a carpenter, and it's always a little sad to be using wood, trees being the wonderful things that they are.
in germany, there was a charming custom among woodcutters. each strove not to be the one to strike the last blow before the tree would come down. this cutter had to accept responsibility for the tree's death and dispatching its soul.
so i try to assuage my guilt a little with an occasional tribute to the trees. here are some woodburnings i put on some of my work, two of them in tribute to that great workhorse, the douglas fir, and the other to our dear redwoods, drawn from a national geographic foldout spread on the tallest tree in the world. (actually, a number of redwoods vie for this distinction, and it's hard to award it because they're difficult to measure and continue to grow fast.)
[photo[photoid=160713]id=160712]
|
|
Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
|
|
|
Jun 17, 2010 - 03:03pm PT
|
|
|
Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
|
|
|
Jun 17, 2010 - 03:03pm PT
|
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 17, 2010 - 04:22pm PT
|
Go for it eKat!
Are there elves and creatures crawling all over this trunk or what?
Look reeeeeeeeaal close now.....
|
|
Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
|
|
|
Jun 17, 2010 - 06:03pm PT
|
thanks, ekat--yes, on the wood referenced.
hieronymus bosch gone to seed!
somebody brought up the granny knot, which i always learned was inferior to the square knot and used by old wives to tie packages. then i got to thinking about it at a guide's course last year where we're going over all kinds of knots and considering how they work and what can go wrong with them. think about it. the granny knot has more friction working for it and it isn't spring-loaded to loosen up the way a square knot is. i ran it by zeke, the instructor, and he could only agree with me. here's to granny!
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 17, 2010 - 06:11pm PT
|
That's funny Tony, I noticed that about the granny knot also.
As a survival instructor we ALWAYS used square knots, specifically because we could get them open after being loaded.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 17, 2010 - 06:55pm PT
|
|
|
neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
|
|
|
Jun 17, 2010 - 07:05pm PT
|
hey there say, lolli.... wow, nice to hear from you...
yeah, though i spelled it wrong.. for some reason, i always like the "y" in it... oh my...
we'd have to call it wisteria, if we wanted to buy one, to grow... but, me too, i agree with ekat = i sure the BLUE RAIN name, too...
:)
it seems to rain over the garden, too, no matter where it grows...
wow, seems it is pouring down mighty strong in the pictures that you shared, :) ;))
here is link, as to the name stuff, that the plant-shops would go by, etc:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisteria
oh these are soooooooooooo lovely and strong! and yet, artistically gentle, of all things, as huge, as it can get, oh my:
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=slv8-&va=wisteria&sz=all
|
|
neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
|
|
|
Jun 18, 2010 - 02:11am PT
|
hey there say, ... captain... or skully:
as to this, your quote:
Dig it, NeeBee. I planted a little Cottonwood "stick" (the tiny sprout) in my backyard 4 years ago. Ain't no stick no more.
It's a tree, by gosh. It's 25 feet tall
wow, oh my.... three cheers.... :)
say, my mom would be proud of you... :)
*as, ps:
dingus milktoast... say, i think i saw a ways back, a tree that you planted HOW many years ago... and you put up a picture of it...
really neat to see that...
had fun seeing these trees again... and newer ones...
i have about three that i am trying to decide which to put on mildred's
card...
i think i will use the very green spread oak...
not sure whose pic, it was...
*ooops, amost forgot, say, norwegian:
loved that "tree" bouldering
and "tree" big wall
notations... :)
*well, back to work now...
but here are some neat tree links:
http://www.tropicalpermaculture.com/growing-mangoes.html
http://www.jordanflora.com/flame_tree.htm
http://www.treesofmystery.net/sequoia.htm
god bless...
:)
|
|
guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
|
|
|
Jun 19, 2010 - 11:19am PT
|
|
|
ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
|
|
|
Jun 19, 2010 - 12:26pm PT
|
I'm sure a bunch of you know where this tree is.
And here are some of my favorite trees from the hammock in the Cook Islands
|
|
telemon01
Trad climber
Montana
|
|
|
Jun 20, 2010 - 10:39pm PT
|
|
|
neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
|
|
|
Jun 20, 2010 - 11:14pm PT
|
hey there say, telemon01, oh my... what an intersting find...
say, this one, we could add all kind of art features too, to make it into a fairly tale,l type creature...
thanks for the share...
*am tempted to do that to some frozen trees, that someone recently shared...
looked like fun little snow creatures, they did....
*if i have time, i just might... ;)
|
|
TGT
Social climber
So Cal
|
|
|
Jun 20, 2010 - 11:31pm PT
|
High on San Antonio. A bit hard to judge the scale. The trunk is maybe 2-1/2 feet in diameter on a 15-20 ft high tree.
It's weathered a bit of adversity.
|
|
kinnikinik
Trad climber
B.C.
|
|
|
Jun 21, 2010 - 12:17am PT
|
|
|
bparry
Trad climber
New Haven, CT
|
|
|
Jun 26, 2010 - 04:44pm PT
|
Carmona microphylla
|
|
neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
|
|
|
Jun 26, 2010 - 07:36pm PT
|
hey there all... say, sadly this tree is not doing so good... :(
but it STILL is a provider to the birds, seaching-out food and a place to perch...
it does, also, play with ones imagination, too...
a critter of the night, so it seems to look as...
as to creativity, and, as long as it can, it keeps the soil in place, doing it jobs, as best it's able, for as long still, as it has:
loving all trees... :)
|
|
hotlum
climber
Oregon
|
|
|
Jun 26, 2010 - 08:35pm PT
|
I work as a Timber Cruiser in Oregon and Montana. When the going gets tough I take a step back and realize how nice it is to be in the forest, no matter how brushy. I have to say my favorite tree to core is Chamaecyparis lawsoniana or the Port-Orford-cedar. These beauties smell soooo good! Unfortunatly the Port-Orford-cedar is being wiped out by a harmful fungus.
Nice pictures folks!
|
|
hotlum
climber
Oregon
|
|
|
Jun 26, 2010 - 08:58pm PT
|
Was inspired by all of you guys' pics. Sorry about the quality, this is from the two MP camera built into my Nomad data recorder for cruising. I thought it would be ST apprropriate. Taken near Coos Bay, OR. Same geologic formation as the Callahans climbing area near Roseburg. This lovely piece of real estate is called Devils Ridge. Full of cliffs(route worthy!), poison oak, bears and big cats! Exciting cruising for sure!
|
|
DJS
Trad climber
|
|
|
Jun 26, 2010 - 09:11pm PT
|
|
|
BooDawg
Social climber
Paradise Island
|
|
|
Jun 27, 2010 - 05:23am PT
|
Here's an alahe'e tree(Psydrax odoratum); it's related to coffee and is indigenous to Hawaii (It occurs here naturally and elsewhere naturally too which means it was here prior to the arrival of the Polynesians. Its flowers are very fragrant whose scent is referred in ancient Hawaii as the octopus's (he'e) "slippery fragrance."
A kauri tree native to NZ; this one is on the Coromandel Penninsula.
|
|
Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
|
|
|
Jun 27, 2010 - 09:07pm PT
|
nice batch of trees here. always like that view of baldy--you know you're close to the top.
show us a port orford, hotlum, if you've got one.
|
|
mark miller
Social climber
Reno
|
|
|
Jun 27, 2010 - 09:08pm PT
|
Yes Mike, and it's white knott "while'...( maybe I missed a few hundred threads back, it's White Mtns..). My wife is having a problem with this thread because what most folks are showing is " Krumholtz formation ,German: krumm, "crooked, bent, twisted" formation trees" affected more by altitude, etc then actual Bonsai's...
She is a Certified arborist, and Nursery certified, and has a combined degree from Santa Cruise , UNR and Miss St. in Biology. She is also the manger of the largest Reno Nursery for the the last 6 years.... She actually isn't all that found of Bonsai's ( I find the effort and patience to be truly amazing, things I do knott possess.). So where is this thread going?......
Up, that's right. Up, it's a climbing forum, always up and when you get to the top, you look across at that or that Mtn. and want to climb it...We are truly sad and sick unhappy( unless we are in the battle) individuals.
|
|
mark miller
Social climber
Reno
|
|
|
Jun 27, 2010 - 09:41pm PT
|
Sorry TTR, but didn't have the time to look at all 300+ threads.....Maybe SuperTopo needs a Readers Digest version of these longer ( More then 20) threads for us with ADD....Which covers about 83.754% of us climbers....Look a "Squirrel".
|
|
Banquo
Trad climber
Morgan Hill, CA (Mo' Hill)
|
|
|
Jun 28, 2010 - 04:00pm PT
|
Taken 6-26-2010
Taken 6-25-2010
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Jul 11, 2010 - 07:05pm PT
|
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 11, 2010 - 07:50pm PT
|
How could anyone miss Boodawgs NZ tree?
One of the finest trees I've ever seen!
|
|
kinnikinik
Trad climber
B.C.
|
|
|
Jul 11, 2010 - 08:50pm PT
|
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Jul 20, 2010 - 08:44pm PT
|
Don't stare too long....
There are wooden stalagtites!
I have met The Wise One....
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 20, 2010 - 10:33pm PT
|
The Great Summit Snag, Muralla Grande, Sandia Mts.
|
|
BooDawg
Social climber
Paradise Island
|
|
|
Jul 20, 2010 - 10:50pm PT
|
Thanks, Survival. Yes, there's some bush in the understory, but it only adds to the appreciation of the tree.
|
|
Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
|
|
some loose holds...but otherwise holy
|
|
Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
|
|
|
|
MisterE
Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
|
|
|
Aug 23, 2010 - 09:45am PT
|
Hey, any of you guys know what this tree is? It is guarding the trail to the Fire Crag in Santa Barbara. None of us had ever seen one before.
Edit: The tree was about 20 feet tall
Definitely a great tree!
Leaf detail:
|
|
Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
|
|
|
Aug 23, 2010 - 09:56am PT
|
mester e we have a redwood like shrub here in the sierra foothills dubbed a western yew.
the needles on the tree in your pic look similar to our yew.
...
i am tree soul.
|
|
Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
|
|
|
Aug 23, 2010 - 09:59am PT
|
the woodpile at an artisitic medium!
great ekat. just great. that will do.
|
|
justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
|
|
|
Aug 23, 2010 - 10:34am PT
|
We looked up Western Yew Norwegian... I don't think that is what it is. The shape was bushy and full. There is a second type of long thin leaves (?) sprouting along the branches along with the fluffy short leaves. Our camera didn't quite catch it, but the color of the foliage is a gorgeous blue-grey color. It stood out like a sore thumb amongst the regular native plants.
EKat- that pile of wood is so cool!
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 23, 2010 - 11:51am PT
|
eKatTheWoodChuck, YIKES!!
That is too freekin' cool!
|
|
Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
|
|
|
Aug 23, 2010 - 12:19pm PT
|
The western yew loves deep shade and wet feet. We have a few in our north facing canyon down by the creek @ 3,000 ft.
ekat, love the wood pile, like a beautiful life we all eventually burn through it.
I must admit I'm partial to these, skys witness the western juniper.....
|
|
Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
|
|
|
Aug 24, 2010 - 08:52am PT
|
Cragman, I know the tree well and will for now on know it as Peter's Tree, thanks for sharing. It does seem to me that when at the end of a day, season, career or life what really counts is the people we shared the time with, all the countless routes and miles of stone remain in place since we passed over them in a flash of time that was shared with a friend.
|
|
ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
|
|
|
Aug 24, 2010 - 10:02am PT
|
THAT was a cool read Cragman....I'm glad you have something like that tree to remember him by, everytime you go by it you'll think of him. My grandmother once told me...memories are the spirits of those visiting you! His spirit will visit you, enjoy those times for what they are.
Peace
|
|
Dick Erb
climber
June Lake, CA
|
|
Cragman, now I have a name for that tree I look at by the Tioga Road. It looks kinda like a miniature sequoia.
|
|
Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
|
|
DE, we may have met bitd in the Valley but my wife & I met your sister and brother in law hiking in the Swiss Alps. We got to talking they asked about our climbing and your name came up! 6 degrees removed from everyone on the planet indeed, our climbing community even closer, perhaps I'll meet you in person along our paths. Hope to spend more time this winter on your east side.......Berg Heil.
Charlie D.
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Sep 12, 2010 - 01:48am PT
|
Located in Bear Canyon near Baldy Village:
I don't know from trees so much so I can't vouch for this but I can
assert that the first limb is about 32" in diameter!
|
|
sempervirens
Trad climber
Trinity County
|
|
|
Sep 12, 2010 - 03:04am PT
|
Hey Mr E, Ever read "the Botany of Desire"? It reports Johnny Appleseed was a child molester who planted apple trees to supply makers of hard cider and that "eatin" apples were rarely grown in America at that time.
random posts, bla bla, ha, ha, ha...
|
|
Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
|
|
|
Sep 12, 2010 - 01:24pm PT
|
Dryad?
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 12, 2010 - 02:37pm PT
|
The grizzled old man.
High in the Sangre De Cristos.
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Sep 28, 2010 - 01:25am PT
|
Not quite so grizzled but rather an odd pruning job for 9500' on Mt Baldy, sorta yur 50' bonsai look...
|
|
Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
|
|
^^^^Nice, the Western Juniper the ranges' oldest witness.
|
|
neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
|
|
hey there say, all....
old neighborhood oak, hanging wayyyyy over the street...
this is that ONE side of it...
this is how it brances out over the yard, on the OTHER
SIDE of the tree (balancing it, hopefully) :O
oh my, could not really see up into the TOP of it... :O
one year, this is due to break, though the folks whose yard
it is in, don't seem to be able to trim it... :(
lovely tree, but a mite dangerous, come storm times...
wow, though, there's nothing like a tree, as to creativi'tree'...
:)
|
|
neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
|
|
hey there dingus, say... i like the "faces" that one can find in those old trees that you posted pics of.... :)
full varieties, human, critters, bugs, etc...
neat pics...
:)
|
|
Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
|
|
|
Nov 19, 2010 - 06:00pm PT
|
Had a chance for a night time hike along the Hogs Back a few weeks ago, love those junipers!
You never know who you might run into in the mountains, anyone recognize this friendly chap?
|
|
SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
|
|
|
Nov 26, 2010 - 07:42pm PT
|
I forget. . .if I ever posted this great tree. . .
so my apologies. . .when I have more time I'll go thru the
thread and if I have, I'll delete it. But it's still a great
tree--thanks, Sherri!
|
|
Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
|
|
|
Nov 26, 2010 - 10:27pm PT
|
SteveW, wow beautiful piece!!!
ekat, snow ghosts, love em...........MT, Big White?
|
|
SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
|
|
|
Nov 26, 2010 - 10:55pm PT
|
Thanks, Charlie D.
Actually, I owe it to Sherri L, who I commissioned to
do it from a few snaps I took in the Patriarch Grove above
Bishop, CA. Only got to spend less than a day there, but
what a treat it was. As Aaaaanold says, I'll be back!!!!
|
|
MisterE
Social climber
Cinderella Story, Outa Nowhere
|
|
|
Mar 21, 2011 - 02:42am PT
|
Bump.
And "Yay!" for the Roosevelt tree in Big Pine surviving the fire! (pic from internet)
|
|
DM88T
climber
San Juan Bautista, CA
|
|
|
May 21, 2011 - 01:04am PT
|
|
|
Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
|
|
|
Sep 24, 2011 - 08:57am PT
|
Bump for great trees
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 24, 2011 - 10:44am PT
|
Dang I love this thread.
My photos will be back any day.....
|
|
FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
|
|
|
Sep 24, 2011 - 11:15am PT
|
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Sep 24, 2011 - 03:12pm PT
|
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 24, 2011 - 05:11pm PT
|
|
|
onyourleft
climber
Smog Angeles
|
|
|
Sep 25, 2011 - 01:08am PT
|
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
"If I'm goin' down I'm takin' somebody with me." - P. Palmtree 2011
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 10, 2012 - 09:39am PT
|
My very own super tree.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 10, 2012 - 09:40am PT
|
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 10, 2012 - 10:09am PT
|
Thanks DMT!
One more for now.
|
|
Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
|
|
|
Mar 10, 2012 - 12:56pm PT
|
some things never change, Jupiter chases Venus to the western horizon as the timeless trees look on
|
|
guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
|
|
|
Mar 10, 2012 - 02:26pm PT
|
Been a while since I went riding.
|
|
Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
|
|
|
Mar 10, 2012 - 03:25pm PT
|
guido's photo has inspired a local debate here. one says it's flat-out photoshopped. the art expert says if it's photoshopped, it's an extremely good job. rather, the expert says, probably real. gullible me says real. guido's an honest soul, no?
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Mar 10, 2012 - 05:06pm PT
|
Best1, HaHaHa! Learn sumpin' new almost every day! I hope that poor dood's
insurance company doesn't find out it ain't a tree.
"Dear claimant, we don't cover monocots falling on yer car."
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Farmer Bruce-san, look at yer bad self with the rake job on that gravel!
Makes me wanna meditate - with a nice cold one at the ready.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Guido, you gotta get out more!
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
And I thought I had bad joints!
|
|
Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
|
|
|
Mar 10, 2012 - 05:19pm PT
|
Trees have to put up with a lot.
|
|
guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
|
|
|
Mar 10, 2012 - 09:19pm PT
|
Tony-Never ever trust a Guido! Trust me on this one.
|
|
Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
|
|
|
Mar 10, 2012 - 09:40pm PT
|
"Tony-Never ever trust a Guido! Trust me on this one." guido
|
|
Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
|
|
|
Mar 11, 2012 - 01:02am PT
|
i'm thinkin' it's on an island, maybe norfolk or tonga, where the strangler figs grow really fast and if you don't pay yer parking, they use them instead of a denver boot.
|
|
guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
|
|
|
Mar 11, 2012 - 01:43am PT
|
Hey it's ok to be a Guido and Tony, hey is it ok it I call you Tony? You know some of the guys might not like it? And the Tonga thing, give Gene a ring about the tropical thing and you will get the growth gist.
So here is a shot of me and my first squeeze, now realize this is BFC4, aka before Camp 4:
And, if you really want to be a Guido, follow these guidelines to the max.
http://www.jersify.com/the-guido-guide/
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Mar 11, 2012 - 01:45am PT
|
You gave up that for Camp 4? Was it a pre-existing condition or head trauma?
|
|
BooYah
Social climber
Ely, Nv
|
|
|
Mar 11, 2012 - 01:46am PT
|
Trees, sailorboy. TREES! Drift gets one nowhere.
You know this.
|
|
guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
|
|
|
Mar 11, 2012 - 03:03am PT
|
BooYah- I always wondered who you be with your trite but awesomely concise responses. But you are so wrong and drift will always be a factor in our lives. No need for the sailorboy dig. You get my drift?
|
|
BooYah
Social climber
Ely, Nv
|
|
|
Mar 11, 2012 - 03:09am PT
|
Wise as always. I DO go on at times.
It's not a dig, actually. Sailors come and go at will, ANYWHERE.
That's Something.
I was just checking to make sure you're making way over there.
|
|
guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
|
|
|
Mar 11, 2012 - 03:15am PT
|
Ok mate, my apologies, I will give you a little leeway this time but next encounter you will have to deal with my Guidette. Such is life. Or to be spot on, such is the "tree of life."
|
|
RadDad
climber
Thorp, WA
|
|
|
Mar 11, 2012 - 03:18am PT
|
|
|
Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
|
|
|
Mar 27, 2012 - 01:36am PT
|
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Mar 30, 2012 - 03:05pm PT
|
Where the hell is north?
|
|
c_vultaggio
Trad climber
new york
|
|
|
Mar 31, 2012 - 10:42pm PT
|
|
|
MisterE
Social climber
|
|
This one is pretty cool. Forest in Poland, who can guess how this happened?
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
I'll take a stab - russian tanks flattened them?
|
|
thebravecowboy
Social climber
Colorado Plateau
|
|
leave it to Humbolt State, wow, that is some good tree.
|
|
sempervirens
climber
|
|
Mister E,
I'm stumped, but will guess. Was it a forest of downed trees that lay over these when they were small saplings? The saplings grew around the downed trees and upward. Then later the downed trees were somehow removed. That guess is more contorted than the trees. In any case, please tell us.
|
|
Killer K
Boulder climber
Sacramento, CA
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2012 - 10:45am PT
|
Mr E,
Looks like the trees were removed to be used for some forest pruduct but the lowest branch was retained in order to save the effort of reforesting. The the branches left over grew towards the sun. Phototropism is the cause of the deformation whatever the initial damge may have been.
|
|
Killer K
Boulder climber
Sacramento, CA
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2012 - 10:58am PT
|
Guido,
The pic of the tree (banyan?) growing over the motorcycle is so cool. Tropical trees have aerial roots that can sprout from any part of the tree and collect moisture from the air until they grow so long that they root into the ground. There is an amazing banyan tree in lahina that covers an entire city block. It has about 30+ trunks but its all one tree. Pretty cool! Ill find a good pic.
|
|
little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2012 - 11:09am PT
|
the gnarly oak meets alien...
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 29, 2012 - 11:13am PT
|
The tired old man, looking good in grey.
|
|
Killer K
Boulder climber
Sacramento, CA
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2012 - 11:15am PT
|
Anyone know what species this tree is?
Hint-not a pine tree
Sorry if its sideways it took right side up. If it helps i'll post another.
Ha! It is! Sorry havent posted many pics
|
|
Killer K
Boulder climber
Sacramento, CA
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2012 - 11:45am PT
|
Ok this ones right side up and more challenging!
What species am I?
Its tough being a tree hugger with these around!
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2012 - 11:48am PT
|
A 'breezy' spot on the Oregon coast...
|
|
little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2012 - 11:53am PT
|
Killer K,
Ceiba pentandra? if it is, it's just a wee thing. I like the 175 foot monsters like this one.
|
|
Killer K
Boulder climber
Sacramento, CA
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2012 - 12:04pm PT
|
Little z,
Very close! Right genus classification wrong species.
Do those big Kapok trees have the thorns all over too? That would be a rough tree to climb!
|
|
little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2012 - 12:11pm PT
|
Ceibas only have the spines when they are young, thank God. Knew your tree had to be in the Bombacaceae, how about Pochote (Bombacopsis quinata)?
|
|
Killer K
Boulder climber
Sacramento, CA
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2012 - 02:08pm PT
|
Little z,
Nope, you were closer the first time. I'll just tell you since you seem to be the most interested.......
Ceiba speciosa or silk floss tree or hong kong orchid. These ones keep their spines their entire life and grow to about 45'.
Theres a pretty good size one in sacramento and ive seen big ones at the l.a. arboretum.
|
|
little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2012 - 05:14pm PT
|
KK,
Cool. I guess you did say it was in the same genus, duhh. I'm not much of a botanist, only being familiar with the more obvious plants that I run into. Haven't seen that one yet. It does look a lot like a Pochote except that Pochote doesn't have the photosynthetic bark.
|
|
Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2012 - 05:30pm PT
|
Reilly, I bet those burls you posted up thread would fetch a pretty penny.
|
|
Killer K
Boulder climber
Sacramento, CA
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2012 - 06:34pm PT
|
Here's another cool one.
|
|
Killer K
Boulder climber
Sacramento, CA
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2012 - 06:37pm PT
|
Same kind of growth pattern different species altogether.
|
|
Killer K
Boulder climber
Sacramento, CA
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2012 - 06:42pm PT
|
What about the leaves on this trippy tree?!!
|
|
little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2012 - 06:43pm PT
|
KK,
love the fine branching on that first one, looks like it's wrigglin' around as we speak, some kind of Cherry? Palo Verde for the second one?
|
|
Killer K
Boulder climber
Sacramento, CA
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2012 - 06:45pm PT
|
Another favorite!
|
|
Killer K
Boulder climber
Sacramento, CA
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2012 - 06:47pm PT
|
LZ,
Contorted Filbert or Hiram's Walking Stick for the first one, and Corkscrew Willow for the second.
|
|
Killer K
Boulder climber
Sacramento, CA
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2012 - 06:53pm PT
|
More coolness!
|
|
little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2012 - 06:54pm PT
|
well, I'm out of my league. Will just stick to enjoying the pics. Bring 'em on...
|
|
Killer K
Boulder climber
Sacramento, CA
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2012 - 06:55pm PT
|
lots of species of conifers only found on this island in the area.
|
|
Killer K
Boulder climber
Sacramento, CA
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2012 - 06:56pm PT
|
ok I swear this is last one.
|
|
Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2012 - 07:15pm PT
|
|
|
Killer K
Boulder climber
Sacramento, CA
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2012 - 07:23pm PT
|
CC,
That's the one!
|
|
Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
|
|
So this is my favorite tree, a 100-foot white pine by our house. It was born before I was and with good luck should outlive me. Jack has chased a couple of bear cubs up this tree and more recently a racoon. Lately there's often been a scarlet tanager, the world's brightest-red bird, perched on the very top and singing.
The tree is tall enough to catch the last rays of sunset, and I've often watched until stars came out.
That tree is what I look at, at the end of the day, when I look up from here.
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
This one's a little more than a 100' but I couldn't retreat far enough to
get the proper perspective. But then it isn't in my backyard either.
|
|
Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
|
|
But then it isn't in my backyard either.
Yeah, that's the charm of this pine for me. I know there are greater trees out there.
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Jul 11, 2012 - 12:18am PT
|
I just wanted to hug this tree, it was so furry and cuddly...
and an excellent poser.
|
|
StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
|
|
|
Jul 11, 2012 - 12:37am PT
|
|
|
Jerry Dodrill
climber
Sebastopol
|
|
|
Jul 11, 2012 - 01:38am PT
|
QITNL: Could be Calaveras Big Trees. Awesome groves of Sequoia trees there.
|
|
Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
|
|
I had the opportunity to visit the National Arboretum in DC which has an amazing collection of bonsai:
This one was a gift from Japan to America and has been in "training" for 400+ years.
|
|
Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
|
|
This is a nice Juniper over by Pywiak in TM
Peace
Karl
|
|
Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
|
|
|
Aug 10, 2012 - 06:29pm PT
|
Got to love those junipers!
|
|
Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
|
|
|
Aug 10, 2012 - 06:41pm PT
|
|
|
Leggs
Sport climber
A true CA girl, who landed in the land of rocks...
|
|
|
Aug 10, 2012 - 10:23pm PT
|
Summer 2012
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 10, 2012 - 11:41pm PT
|
Speaking of Juniper, it's sad to see a 700 year old grandfather on his last day.
One tree forest fire.
|
|
Leggs
Sport climber
A true CA girl, who landed in the land of rocks...
|
|
|
Aug 11, 2012 - 12:31am PT
|
Tree BUMP
|
|
Leggs
Sport climber
A true CA girl, who landed in the land of rocks...
|
|
|
Aug 11, 2012 - 12:39am PT
|
bump!
|
|
Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
|
|
|
Aug 11, 2012 - 09:43am PT
|
|
|
covelocos
Trad climber
Nor Cal
|
|
|
Aug 11, 2012 - 11:42am PT
|
|
|
Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
|
|
|
Aug 11, 2012 - 11:52am PT
|
|
|
The Call Of K2 Lou
climber
Squamish
|
|
|
Aug 12, 2012 - 06:43pm PT
|
I love the gnarly trees, it's just hard to find 'em around here:
|
|
Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
|
|
|
Aug 29, 2012 - 01:12am PT
|
Tuolumne Meadows bonsai
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Sep 12, 2012 - 09:18pm PT
|
The Jacarandas were goin' off!
How many can you count?
And this one was on fire!
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Sep 12, 2012 - 10:23pm PT
|
Larry, Moe, Curly.
Weejus H. Crutch, those are sum find Artivax antreebies.
And those lavender treebies are jacarandas? Nobody I asked in June knew that in Simi. Imagine that. They are comme dites, Ubuckeyetous.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Sep 15, 2012 - 02:18am PT
|
This is one of my favorite photos ever.
I reminds me of the movie with Alan Hale and Edgar Buchanan and Kirk Douglas, The Big TRees, from 1952. A line I want to share with the tree higging brosisterhood spoken by Patrice Wymore as Daisy:
"You stye on the eye of a flea on a thigh of a nit on on the neck of a gnat."
Going the opposite way from the big tree topic: -1
Going so f*#king far away in one sentence: priceless.
|
|
Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
|
|
|
Sep 16, 2012 - 06:25pm PT
|
Here's that "favorite tree" I mentioned somewhere upthread, catching the last ray of sunset by our house tonight. It's about a hundred feet tall, perhaps a bit more, but I never tried to reckon its age until just now.
Looked it up ... the growth factor for white pine in a forest averages 5 years per inch of diameter at chest height. This tree is 95 inches around at that height, so
5*95/3.14 = 151
it's something like 151 years old. A seedling when the Civil War broke out, and the forest it looks down upon now was a rocky farmed field.
The largest conifer east of the Mississippi, these critters can live 2, maybe 4 hundred years. Before the white man came to cut them down, some grew 250 feet tall. Seems cool that this one tree has made it so far.
Not far from here is a road called Mast Way, where they cut white pine to build masts for the sailing ships.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
A Dawg's Delight.
A howling-moon...
Aaallll the trees looked big...
|
|
Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
|
|
|
Oct 16, 2012 - 08:45am PT
|
Crazy about junipers......
|
|
guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
|
|
|
Oct 16, 2012 - 12:02pm PT
|
|
|
little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
|
|
|
Oct 16, 2012 - 01:24pm PT
|
a very big tree to have in your back yard. The Ceiba, downtown Sabailto de Coto Brus.
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
|
briham89
Big Wall climber
san jose, ca
|
|
Climbing Galapagos style.
|
|
DM88T
climber
San Juan Bautista, CA
|
|
|
|
Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
|
|
|
Dec 26, 2012 - 07:27am PT
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Jan 11, 2013 - 10:57am PT
|
|
|
sempervirens
climber
|
|
|
Apr 15, 2013 - 12:59pm PT
|
For nerds amongst us, this tree and the Sierra juniper used to be two subspecies of western juniper. Now they each classified as separate species.
Bump for trees.
|
|
Dervish
Trad climber
Over the water
|
|
|
Apr 15, 2013 - 01:21pm PT
|
Hope you like this one from the UK.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Apr 15, 2013 - 01:56pm PT
|
High above Death Valley!
|
|
neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
|
|
|
Apr 20, 2013 - 05:56pm PT
|
hey there say, manzanita man... very nice trees!
thanks for the share...
hope you had a good week, tree-wise and yard wise, :)
|
|
goatboy smellz
climber
Nederland-GulfBreeze
|
|
a couple shots from this morning's bike ride out to Fort Pickens.
[
Magnolia buds in the backyard blooming.
|
|
McHale's Navy
Trad climber
Panorama City, California & living in Seattle
|
|
Washington Big Trees
|
|
Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
|
|
|
May 11, 2013 - 12:37am PT
|
|
|
Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
|
|
|
May 28, 2013 - 10:45am PT
|
Blue Atlas Cedar window shade:
|
|
DM88T
climber
San Juan Bautista, CA
|
|
|
May 29, 2013 - 03:34am PT
|
Mr. Toast, a fine collection. The paired trees are exceptional.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - May 29, 2013 - 12:02pm PT
|
Nice pix DMT! I love the one overlooking the lake, with it's little brother standing nearby.
Check it, dwarfing the Love Machine!
|
|
dirt claud
Social climber
san diego,ca
|
|
|
May 29, 2013 - 12:52pm PT
|
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
May 29, 2013 - 01:24pm PT
|
|
|
c_vultaggio
Trad climber
new york
|
|
|
May 29, 2013 - 01:24pm PT
|
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - May 29, 2013 - 01:26pm PT
|
Damn you Vultaggio.......:0)
|
|
c_vultaggio
Trad climber
new york
|
|
|
May 29, 2013 - 02:40pm PT
|
Damn you Vultaggio.......:0)
Just ordered a metallic 36x48, to be front-mounted to some plexi. Pretty stoked to have it hanging at home...
|
|
ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
|
|
|
May 29, 2013 - 03:12pm PT
|
Near the entrance of the Thurston Lava Tube - Big Island
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Jun 11, 2013 - 02:13am PT
|
California fan palm to Mme. Justice and Mr. Cedar: Is there nothing that will reconcile you two?
The date palm remained behind the flag, saying nothing, yet knowing everything.
[cue organ;go to commercial]
We will return to this chapter of Courthouse Bark in just a moment...
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
Your honor, I withdraw the question...
|
|
Edge
Trad climber
New Durham, NH
|
|
|
|
guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
|
|
|
Jul 19, 2013 - 12:06pm PT
|
I think I will never see,
A poem as lovely as a tree,
Poems are written by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
John Ridgway book-Then We Sailed Away
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 19, 2013 - 12:12pm PT
|
Survivors....
|
|
dirt claud
Social climber
san diego,ca
|
|
|
Jul 19, 2013 - 12:22pm PT
|
Good one Edge, Those trees or amazing huhh? Here are a couple from "Trail of 100 Giants" near Dome Rock.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Jul 19, 2013 - 12:27pm PT
|
Big Daddy.
|
|
guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
|
|
|
Jul 19, 2013 - 12:31pm PT
|
|
|
ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
|
|
|
Jul 19, 2013 - 12:48pm PT
|
Sequoia = anti gravity machine, getting the water out of the ground up to the top of one of those babys just blows my mind. That is a truly Giant feat.
|
|
dirt claud
Social climber
san diego,ca
|
|
|
Jul 24, 2013 - 03:24pm PT
|
Specialistclimber, her initals are EQ. Tree route looks cool, wanted to climb that one but my girlfriend is just learning lead belay. Beautiful country up there. Ponderosa campground was really cool.
|
|
dirt claud
Social climber
san diego,ca
|
|
|
Jul 24, 2013 - 03:45pm PT
|
Ok good. Was gonna be weird meeting my girlfriends ex in here, LOL. Hope to get back up there soon, lots of climbing over there, and many many many beautiful trees.
|
|
NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
|
|
|
Jul 24, 2013 - 03:47pm PT
|
Each of these is a great tree, with gravitas and dignity, worthy of hours of contemplation. And there are so many, that time is not enough to appreciate their beauty one by one. So I appreciate them all together in moments of peaceful ecstasy, and come back to revisit them later.
|
|
Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
|
|
|
Jul 26, 2013 - 08:27pm PT
|
|
|
Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
|
|
|
Jul 27, 2013 - 06:45pm PT
|
Was in Wales recently and toured a famous garden there. Imagine our surprise when we saw this big tree that looked like a Sequoia.
Turns out it was a Sequoia, brought from California in 1876.
|
|
Edge
Trad climber
New Durham, NH
|
|
|
Jul 27, 2013 - 07:52pm PT
|
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Aug 12, 2013 - 03:53pm PT
|
DC, I think that is rather Eucalyptus keyseyii.
Brain Surgery...
Log Leather...
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 20, 2013 - 11:44am PT
|
Grandfather, 10,000 ft., Monitor Pass.
Escaped the fire!!
|
|
goatboy smellz
climber
Nederland-GulfBreeze
|
|
|
Aug 27, 2013 - 06:57pm PT
|
Seville Square, Pensacola
|
|
ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
|
|
(seen from where I was yesterday)
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 3, 2013 - 12:30pm PT
|
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
Survival, I think yer bifocals are on crooked! BwaHaHaHa! :-)
Cragman, NO FAIR, yer shot clearly had divine intervention!
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 3, 2013 - 02:04pm PT
|
Reilly, there's NOTHING WRONG with my bifocals!!!
|
|
Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
|
|
Went for a hike up Rocky Canyon to the summit of Pyramid Peak last weekend, great trees in route:
White Pine around 8500 feet:
Cedar around 7000 feet:
|
|
Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
|
|
The Freeman Grove covers more than 4,000 acres in the Freeman Creek drainage, the deep valley just north of The Needles. It is the largest unlogged grove outside of a National park, and the easternmost grove of giant sequoias. According to the USFS the grove is home to about 800 trees more than 10 feet in diameter.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Sep 10, 2013 - 10:52pm PT
|
On Olive Av. in Mr. Ced.
Across from the New El Capitan HS on G Grade.
Two lopsided abominations of the tree surgeon's butchery.
Why won't they just cut these eyesores out of the picture?
Are the utilities operators' bosses the same guys who head the forestry authorities in this state and who make such bonehead decisions?
Or are the property owners just Philistines when it comes to their public image?
I gotta look at these POS often. If they were in a forest, I'd let it slide, believe me. This is just jive-ass.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Sep 11, 2013 - 12:03am PT
|
Thx, TT.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Sep 11, 2013 - 03:56am PT
|
Is it far from Pristine, CA, like?
I mean, you live in used-to-be Paradise.
Is this the one you mentioned when I posted this last spring?
|
|
dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
|
|
|
Sep 11, 2013 - 09:27pm PT
|
Chris, speaking of the Freeman Grove, there is an incredible HUGE downed tree that spans an entire canyon. Have you seen that one?
Also it was a shame that one tree was named after Pres. Bush (the first one), it was not treated with respect.
|
|
dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
|
|
|
Sep 11, 2013 - 09:27pm PT
|
Here is one from the Sherbrooke Forest north of Melbourne, Aust.
|
|
ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
|
|
|
Sep 20, 2013 - 11:05pm PT
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Sep 23, 2013 - 04:30pm PT
|
A popular tree, shade is its number one occupation. Good for siesta.--Popular Arboristic article on oaks
|
|
Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
|
|
|
Sep 23, 2013 - 04:53pm PT
|
i built a coffin for richard.
then i built one for myself,
and upon its lid,
i placed my bed roll.
everynight i sleep atop my
subterranean space ship,
and one night,
i might,
just slip right on thru
upon infared dreams
and descend into.
|
|
little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
|
|
|
Sep 28, 2013 - 10:57am PT
|
too sad to write a poem
was like watching Avatar
200 ft Ceiba bites the dust
|
|
bergbryce
Mountain climber
California
|
|
|
Sep 28, 2013 - 12:30pm PT
|
I took a whirlwind road trip the other week. S. Lake Tahoe -> Shasta -> Medford/Ashland -> Crescent City -> Eureka and then 36 across the Trinities. Wow.
I was under the impression that the region was constantly wet given the 60+ inches of annual precip much of the region receives. I was surprised to see it dry and sunny. I guess all of California has two seasons. Even more surprising were those stunning redwoods. Absolute treasures. Sorry no pics of trees. Was actually rather focused on enjoying the beaches and coastline. What an incredible area there behind the redwood curtain.
Are there any reasonable climbing options up that way?? I saw the occasional riverside boulder that looked climbable but any cliffs I saw looked really chossy.
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Sep 28, 2013 - 12:50pm PT
|
Who can guess the age of this Bristlecone? 3000? 4000?
The origin of the word 'gnarly'?
The cones take two years to mature...
Didjya know the two species' distribution?
|
|
perswig
climber
|
|
|
Sep 29, 2013 - 09:02pm PT
|
Dale
|
|
harryhotdog
Social climber
north vancouver, B.C.
|
|
|
Sep 29, 2013 - 09:38pm PT
|
Some of my favorite tree forms!
|
|
ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
|
|
|
Sep 30, 2013 - 12:56am PT
|
Sep 1, 2013 - 09:14pm PT
seen from where I was yesterday (same one - up closer)
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
And I thought I was twisted!
|
|
DM88T
climber
San Juan Bautista, CA
|
|
some live longer than others
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Oct 18, 2013 - 10:24pm PT
|
On the descent from Whitney...
|
|
Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
|
|
|
Oct 20, 2013 - 08:56am PT
|
There sure are some great trees at Lover's Leap, ponderosa and sugar pines along with some cedars and western junipers.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Oct 20, 2013 - 11:18am PT
|
Lake Yosemite, Merced.
|
|
harryhotdog
Social climber
north vancouver, B.C.
|
|
|
Oct 20, 2013 - 12:21pm PT
|
The once great tree on this thread
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Oct 20, 2013 - 03:47pm PT
|
In the out-of-bounds of the Merced Hills Golf Club.
There are t'ree boidies* in dis pic. Find 'em and you win one of the errant balls that I hawked the other day.
*3 birds yields 3-under-par, of course--where you want to be after the long thirteenth hole.
Trees make golf into a non-links experience; and because of them, the "game" can become a major nightmare because of them.
Same with climbing...
Forgive me, it's Sunday, golf day in America.
|
|
MisterE
climber
|
|
This one is on the back way to The Fortress in Ojai - kind of in Anastasia and Bill's neighborhood:
|
|
MisterE
climber
|
|
Beautiful picture, Seamstress!
Lone oak on the trail into Malibu Creek State Park
|
|
MisterE
climber
|
|
|
Nov 18, 2013 - 10:17pm PT
|
Life -vs- erosion:
|
|
Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
|
|
|
Nov 19, 2013 - 01:49am PT
|
Bump for one of my favorites!
Just went through the entire thread, excellent
|
|
Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
|
|
|
Nov 19, 2013 - 09:27pm PT
|
]
|
|
Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
|
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
Now, that's obviously a species you don't find on the Sierra Nevada's western slope!
[Click to View YouTube Video]Not much more to be said about this falling woody object.
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
Mouse, I almost had to perform an Auto-Heimlich I was laughing so hard!
At first I figgered the cars were the target, but NO! It was obvious from
the git-go his undercut was all wrong, not to mention his going all northwoods
heman with the axe. PRICELESS!
|
|
Heyzeus
climber
Hollywood,Ca
|
|
^^^^
That felt good. Too bad it didn't fall on that moron as well.
Why cut down that beautiful tree? So sad. Maybe the tree was sick? Looked healthy from the distance.
|
|
RyanD
climber
Squamish
|
|
Mouse. Thanks. Lol!
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
Why cut down that beautiful tree?
Well, duh, he was afraid it was gonna fall on his house some day.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 5, 2013 - 12:20pm PT
|
Timid, great pics!
Mouse, am I the only one that climbs high in the tree and puts lines with tension in the direction I want it to fall??
Wow, that was amazing.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
If a tree falls in the forest, does it bother to shout, "Oh, shit!" like a pilot does when he's going into the ground?
|
|
jstan
climber
|
|
Not much more to be said about this falling woody object.
Makes sense. Dropping it that way gets you much more firewood.
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
Fruits du burl, Tierra del Fuego
And so some of you think you have bad joints?
|
|
L
climber
California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
|
|
Mystical...
Magical...
|
|
ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
|
|
|
Dec 25, 2013 - 11:04pm PT
|
A Christmas tree if you will (I went out).
|
|
ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
|
|
|
Jan 13, 2014 - 11:04pm PT
|
Went for a walk near the Mammoth Lakes visitor center, and came across this mutant pine with like 40 foot branches. Not even that tall/ old of a tree, but a huge wing-span. It really stood out from the surronding trees tho it's the same (ponderosa?) variety, or whatever you call it.
|
|
mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
|
|
|
Jan 13, 2014 - 11:21pm PT
|
One of the better shots of our backyard weeping Silver Birch
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Jan 14, 2014 - 12:51am PT
|
Tierra del Fuego was misnamed. It should have been Tierra del Viento...
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
So, you whiners think you have it hard?
Bristlecone Pine, White Mts
|
|
ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
|
|
|
Mar 20, 2014 - 02:08am PT
|
|
|
perswig
climber
|
|
|
May 22, 2014 - 06:45am PT
|
Cool wood, folks. Biotch, your mutant Ponderosa up top is excellent, a little spooky.
Dale
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - May 22, 2014 - 10:30am PT
|
|
|
guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
|
|
|
May 22, 2014 - 02:28pm PT
|
|
|
walt
climber
Kirkwood, CA
|
|
|
May 23, 2014 - 12:49am PT
|
|
|
guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
|
|
|
May 23, 2014 - 12:30pm PT
|
|
|
perswig
climber
|
|
|
May 25, 2014 - 03:53pm PT
|
Little help with tree ID, if you don't mind.
This showed up in a neglected topsoil pile w/in the past year; I'd like to transplant it somewhere appropriate. Thought an elm of some sort, but the bark looks too smooth. Sumac? Ornamental? Dunno.
TIA.
Dale
|
|
sempervirens
climber
|
|
|
May 26, 2014 - 11:22pm PT
|
perswig, cherry. There are many different kinds of cherry of course. I'm guessing that one is a cultivar, and probably produces an edible fruit. Be sure to makes sure before eating though, there are toxic cherries too.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - May 27, 2014 - 01:58pm PT
|
Good stuff DMT!!!
|
|
HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
|
|
|
May 27, 2014 - 02:32pm PT
|
|
|
Scott Patterson
Mountain climber
Craig
|
|
|
May 27, 2014 - 02:49pm PT
|
A very, very, old tree (around 201,000,000 to 235,000,000 years old):
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - May 27, 2014 - 02:55pm PT
|
Very cool.
How does one know it's 280 million years old? Curious, because I couldn't find anything.
|
|
Scott Patterson
Mountain climber
Craig
|
|
|
May 27, 2014 - 03:12pm PT
|
How does one know it's 280 million years old? Curious, because I couldn't find anything.
My mistake. I looked it up and it's actually 201-235 million years old. It is in the Chinle Formation, which is from the Late Triassic (Late Triassic is 201-235 million years old).
http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/coloradoplateau/lexicon/chinle.htm
|
|
perswig
climber
|
|
|
May 28, 2014 - 06:24am PT
|
Ah, thanks much, sempervirens!
Oddly enough, the algorithm I followed for leaf ID took me to cherry, but I discounted that as unlikely as none seem to be nearby.
Gift from the wind, I guess.
Thanks again.
Dale
edit: SV, I used this, expecting little, and was pleasantly surprised. (Pretty sure I've got a cool old hand-drawn taxonomy guide somewhere as well, but I couldn't lay my hands on it when I needed it.)
http://forestry.about.com/od/treeidentification/tp/tree_key_id_start.htm
|
|
sempervirens
climber
|
|
|
May 28, 2014 - 08:22pm PT
|
Perswig,
I'm not familiar with any algorithm for identifying leaves or plants. Is there a link you could send describing it? Thanks.
Maybe the cherry tree was a gift from a bird. And Elm leaves are pretty similar.
|
|
SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, or In What Time Zone Am I?
|
|
|
May 28, 2014 - 09:25pm PT
|
Susan
|
|
sempervirens
climber
|
|
|
May 29, 2014 - 08:31pm PT
|
Hi Timid,
Lake Davis? I mean, reservoir Davis?
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Jun 14, 2014 - 08:02am PT
|
"Just TRY to have a private talk around here! Nawmean?"
"I knoooow!"
"That picture of the dead 'un just slew me."
"I knoooow!"
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 16, 2014 - 10:04am PT
|
It's hard to convey the true majesty of Sierra old growth Juniper.
But you gotta try!!!
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Jun 16, 2014 - 10:32am PT
|
You'd be nuts to try.Is it possible to relay the trad grandeur of a trade route?Not this time.
|
|
Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
|
|
|
Jun 16, 2014 - 11:16am PT
|
Old junipers are telling us their story, a fairytale as real as real can be...
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 16, 2014 - 11:38am PT
|
Tour of the Ancient Ones.
My families Fathers Day gift to me!
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 16, 2014 - 11:46am PT
|
We saw at least 20 awesome Grandfather trees on the hike.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 16, 2014 - 09:14pm PT
|
Layton can't keep himself from visiting Grandfather on a personal level.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 16, 2014 - 09:37pm PT
|
This old man is still alive. And so much bigger than it looks!
|
|
John M
climber
|
|
|
Jun 16, 2014 - 09:42pm PT
|
Wow Bruce, Great way to spend a fathers day.
I really like that second picture from the top of this page.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 16, 2014 - 09:52pm PT
|
Thanks John. Yes, visiting old trees is strangely the perfect gift for me... I got so many cool pix on this trip. Happy man.
|
|
John M
climber
|
|
|
Jun 16, 2014 - 09:55pm PT
|
How old do those Junipers get? That second picture down for some reason makes me think of Africa. And I've never been to Africa.. haha…
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 16, 2014 - 10:46pm PT
|
How old do those Junipers get?
John, the oldest Junipers can get to 3,000 years.
I think most of the Grandfathers on our tour were in the 600-800 range, but I'm only guessing by a tree that a forester told me was 800+.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 18, 2014 - 10:10am PT
|
|
|
Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
|
|
|
Jun 18, 2014 - 10:35am PT
|
Old junipers are fascinating. Just like I'm in wonder hearing the voice of a couple of flying cranes, I'm left in wonder seeing old junipers...
Seeing the photos of this thread I started thinking about Tolkien's Ents.
The Ents were ancient shepherds of the forest and allies of the free peoples of Middle-earth.
The word "Ent" was taken from the Anglo-Saxon (Old English) word ent, meaning "giant". Tolkien borrowed the word from the Anglo-Saxon phrases orþanc enta geweorc ("work of cunning giants") and eald enta geweorc ("old work of giants", which describes Roman ruins). In this sense, Ents are probably the most ubiquitous of all creatures in fantasy and folklore, perhaps second only to dragons, for the word can refer to a variety of large, roughly humanoid creatures, such as giants, orcs, trolls, or even the monster Grendel from the poem Beowulf.
Along with Old Norse jǫtunn (Jötunn), "ent" came from Common Germanic *etunaz.
|
|
ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
|
|
|
Jun 25, 2014 - 11:21pm PT
|
(from my FB)
|
|
Tobia
Social climber
Denial
|
|
|
Jun 26, 2014 - 02:13am PT
|
A great tree story is that of "The Tree That Owns Itself, in Athens, Ga.
The picture below is that of the the son of the original as the "parent" reportedly fell in October,1942. It was over 100 feet tall, originating between 100-400 years old.
Excerpts from Wikipedia: The earliest-known telling of the tree’s story comes from a front-page article entitled "Deeded to Itself" in the Athens Weekly Banner of August 12, 1890. The article explains that the tree had been located on the property of Colonel William Henry Jackson [1] William Jackson was the son of one James Jackson (a soldier in the American Revolution as well as a Congressman, U.S. Senator, and Governor of Georgia). (William Jackson was reportedly a professor at the University of Georgia. Jackson deeded to it the ownership of itself and its surrounding land. According to the newspaper article, the deed read:
I, W. H. Jackson, of the county of Clarke, of the one part, and the oak tree… of the county of Clarke, of the other part: Witnesseth, That the said W. H. Jackson for and in consideration of the great affection which he bears said tree, and his great desire to see it protected has conveyed, and by these presents do convey unto the said oak tree entire possession of itself and of all land within eight feet of it on all sides.
sorry about the size, didn't realize it was so large.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 26, 2014 - 06:32am PT
|
Great stories about the oak and the juniper! Tobia, could you please bring down the size on that photo? 1000 wide is plenty big.
Dingus, check this one out. I simply could not get a pic to do this oddity justice. There is a large notch in this ridge. The trunk of the tree is entirely down inside of this notch. The vegetation completely fills the void and makes it appear as a shrub. It also creates a false ridgeline, as though you could walk through it, but you can't. It was 100% healthy, but very unusual. The trunk was completely dwarfed out, but the vegetation was almost unnaturally vigorous.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 26, 2014 - 06:47am PT
|
You're right Dingus!
I hereby give these trees to themselves!
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 26, 2014 - 06:54am PT
|
Thanks eKatTreeLoverLoraxMama.
This old fella gave up his leaves, but not his great spot, eh?
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 26, 2014 - 07:13am PT
|
post edit - correction, this is taken from Monitor Pass road, somewhere east of the summit.
From the road? The road? The ROAD??!! Bite your tongue you scurvy bastard, it's miles from the road!
Edit:
Ooops, forgot to put my little punctuation smiley face guy to indicate no real anger at all, just pretend.... :o)
|
|
MisterE
climber
|
|
A couple of loner from exploring above Swall Meadows:
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Jul 10, 2014 - 12:12pm PT
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Jul 12, 2014 - 12:53am PT
|
|
|
McHale's Navy
Trad climber
From Panorama City, CA
|
|
|
Jul 12, 2014 - 09:51pm PT
|
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Jul 13, 2014 - 10:29am PT
|
Hopefully it will be a great one someday...
|
|
Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
|
|
|
Jul 18, 2014 - 02:14pm PT
|
Trees are hopeful.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Jul 18, 2014 - 02:39pm PT
|
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 18, 2014 - 02:41pm PT
|
Whoa, what's the story with that Zane Mabooti tree? That thing is freekin' Ginormous!
|
|
StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
|
|
|
Jul 20, 2014 - 10:05am PT
|
|
|
dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
|
|
|
Jul 22, 2014 - 03:42pm PT
|
|
|
dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
|
|
|
Jul 22, 2014 - 03:53pm PT
|
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Jul 22, 2014 - 05:27pm PT
|
Nice one, Timid!
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Jul 25, 2014 - 01:38pm PT
|
Huggatry: n.
The practice of embracing nature through means of encircling one's arms around a tree; or, in the case of large specimens, linking hands with others to encircle its vast circumference.
"The larger the tree, the easier it is to hide from the ladies while taking a leak."--The Larry
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Jul 25, 2014 - 02:57pm PT
|
|
|
dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
|
|
|
Jul 25, 2014 - 08:52pm PT
|
Huggatry!
|
|
dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
|
|
|
Jul 25, 2014 - 08:55pm PT
|
|
|
ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
|
|
|
Jul 26, 2014 - 10:33pm PT
|
|
|
kaholatingtong
Trad climber
Nevada City
|
|
|
Jul 26, 2014 - 10:56pm PT
|
totally dead
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Jul 27, 2014 - 11:33pm PT
|
The whole structure is made from clear redwood, circa 1874.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 28, 2014 - 02:22am PT
|
Carabiner for scale.
Are you kidding me??
Look close!
A good friend on a big trunk.
|
|
Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
|
|
A very old apple tree.
|
|
bergbryce
climber
East Bay, CA
|
|
|
Aug 10, 2014 - 05:11pm PT
|
I don't care for the eucalyptus trees of the east bay, they seem like unreasonable fire hazards and not to mention, an invasive species. But.... I saw the hugest eucalyptus in Pleasanton today. I should have stopped and taken a picture but I didn't. That thing is HUGE!!
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 10, 2014 - 06:07pm PT
|
Check out this 3,900 year old beauty above my friend Farland.
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Aug 11, 2014 - 10:45am PT
|
Mt Baden Powell leaner...
Happy tree...
Happy pine cone...
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Aug 12, 2014 - 03:24am PT
|
|
|
ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
|
|
|
Aug 13, 2014 - 09:58pm PT
|
|
|
ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
|
|
|
Aug 25, 2014 - 11:57pm PT
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Sep 14, 2014 - 08:51am PT
|
You might could make some into cool buttons, neebee.
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Sep 14, 2014 - 09:06am PT
|
Alive and kicking...
|
|
Chewybacca
Trad climber
Montana, Whitefish
|
|
|
Oct 25, 2014 - 12:56am PT
|
Cool tree Reilly, it kind of looks like its walking.
|
|
perswig
climber
|
|
|
Oct 25, 2014 - 04:18am PT
|
^^
"You don't need a weatherman ..."
Dale
|
|
Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
|
|
|
Oct 25, 2014 - 05:21am PT
|
I see that some pictures go up and then like way too many tree they come down?
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Nov 12, 2014 - 04:10am PT
|
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Nov 12, 2014 - 10:48am PT
|
Olive trees post harvest...
|
|
Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
|
|
|
Nov 13, 2014 - 06:45pm PT
|
see it is that we all travel the same roads ....one more it is a study , a set
|
|
Andy Fielding
Trad climber
UK
|
|
|
Nov 18, 2014 - 11:19am PT
|
As trees are now my new career I may post a few pictures on this thread.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 9, 2015 - 07:43am PT
|
That's a great shot Timid!!
|
|
rincon
Trad climber
Coarsegold
|
|
|
|
Andy Fielding
Trad climber
UK
|
|
|
Jan 19, 2015 - 06:35am PT
|
English Oak 40-50% crown reduction.
|
|
Barney Rubble
Trad climber
ALAMEDA
|
|
|
Jan 19, 2015 - 08:53am PT
|
I always have fond memories of this tree on shores of Washington Park in Annacortes Washington.
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Jan 19, 2015 - 08:55am PT
|
^^^^ Yes, that tree should definitely be studied for the effects of second hand smoke inhalation.
|
|
zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
|
|
|
Jan 19, 2015 - 10:18am PT
|
|
|
Rollover
climber
Gross Vegas
|
|
|
Jan 19, 2015 - 10:57am PT
|
|
|
Rollover
climber
Gross Vegas
|
|
|
Jan 19, 2015 - 10:58am PT
|
|
|
Rollover
climber
Gross Vegas
|
|
|
Jan 19, 2015 - 10:59am PT
|
|
|
zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
|
|
|
Jan 19, 2015 - 01:41pm PT
|
Great link SLR.
|
|
rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
|
|
|
Jan 19, 2015 - 05:31pm PT
|
Barney..I use to run thru Washington Park at night when visiting my in-laws...they still live there close to your photo...rj
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Mar 16, 2015 - 11:03am PT
|
An easy wind blowin' cross the valley today.
|
|
jonnyrig
climber
|
|
|
Mar 16, 2015 - 11:06am PT
|
|
|
Rcklzrd
Trad climber
Durango, CO
|
|
|
Mar 16, 2015 - 02:21pm PT
|
|
|
atchafalaya
Boulder climber
|
|
|
Mar 16, 2015 - 03:37pm PT
|
There are a number of very old GREAT TREES on Donner Summit. These things have been around for a long time in the elements...
|
|
Andy Fielding
Trad climber
UK
|
|
|
Mar 17, 2015 - 05:02pm PT
|
Todays Tree
|
|
Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
|
|
|
Mar 18, 2015 - 08:10am PT
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Mar 19, 2015 - 03:28pm PT
|
These were taken at Greeley Hill, Mariposa Co.
These were taken on Sentinel Creek.
|
|
Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
|
|
|
Mar 20, 2015 - 09:47pm PT
|
The Final Dormancy
Aesculus californica: we are used to seeing them in the spring, green canopy spread in the winter's rain, and then the large buckeye seed, each appearing, incredibly, as a flawless ornament adorning the branches.
But for these trees summer is their time for sleep, and they move to dormancy, startling us with their appearance as if they have died. Yet after many visits in many seasons we think we know their ways. And we do, but oddly we know them not so well as individuals, our eyes are not open to their age, to their illness and infirmities, and we do not sense their peril.
So when the spring brings us around to visit again, we are sadly surprised to find our friend had entered its final dormancy, a dormancy from which it would never revive. It is the way of all living, that life is defined by two times, and we know that in our very depth, but always surprised in joy of the first, and in grief of the last.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Mar 20, 2015 - 10:25pm PT
|
First day of spring, Ed.
Real nice thoughts for today.
|
|
Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
|
|
|
Mar 22, 2015 - 10:25am PT
|
I wrote in the Alpinist piece "A Fine Balance" about our perception of time and how it influences our actions:
"Eric and I are trying to be careful not to wreck anything here. We rap off a single nut, backed up by a very long sling around a tree. Trunks grow and slings constrict. Descents from old and forgotten routes are often flagged by tight white bands around trees. Even if the slings didn't turn to dust upon being handled, no rope would fit anymore between the aged nylon and the bark. Our concept of time is so limited that it's hard to imagine this small tree growing into a large one over the decades beyond our own lifetimes.
And so it doesn't seem just literary imagination, one might consider this image from a recent adventure
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Mar 22, 2015 - 11:12am PT
|
Amen, Ed.Trees have roots, like us.
Trees breathe, grow, die, like us.
Trees grow where they are planted, like us (or like we should do).
They need nothing from us but our understanding.
A world without trees ain't no place to live.
A world without us is no worse off not having us around.
The trees will continue long after we are feeding their roots.
SO HAVE A CARE!
|
|
son of stan
Boulder climber
San Jose CA
|
|
|
Mar 30, 2015 - 07:34pm PT
|
|
|
couchmaster
climber
|
|
|
Apr 27, 2015 - 04:19pm PT
|
We got a large tree that's about to push the trailer out of the way. Here's a pic from a months back when there was a 2 finger gap between it and the eave.
There is a 1 index finger gap now. As of last weekend. And it's tight at that.
Typically the tops of these trees die and then they just keep getting bigger at the base. That is the case here with the top 30 feet of a 150" tall tree now dead and bare. My nervous neighbor has discussed this a couple times with me.....so I don't know how much longer it's gonna be there. The next door neighbor has a smaller one next to her garage that has lifted her garage up about 16 inches so far.
|
|
Andy Fielding
Trad climber
UK
|
|
|
Apr 28, 2015 - 01:47pm PT
|
Typically the tops of these trees die and then they just keep getting bigger at the base. Die back is usually associated with some form of root problem not getting enough water and therefore mineral nutrients to the upper extremities. Is that the case with these trees or is there another reason?
|
|
MisterE
Gym climber
Being In Sierra Happy Of Place
|
|
Patriarch Grove BUMP!!!!
|
|
jonnyrig
climber
|
|
|
May 16, 2015 - 10:31pm PT
|
near Woodfords
|
|
Andy Fielding
Trad climber
UK
|
|
|
May 24, 2015 - 04:02pm PT
|
From a recent article in the Summer 2015 issue of the Arb Magazine.
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2015 - 10:26am PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Aug 13, 2015 - 03:23am PT
|
|
|
BigB
Mountain climber
Sin City
|
|
|
Aug 13, 2015 - 08:23am PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Sep 14, 2015 - 01:31am PT
|
|
|
Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
|
|
|
Oct 14, 2015 - 09:10am PT
|
Mouse, I have no idea why so many people plant coast redwoods in the Sierra foothills....a fish out of water.
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Oct 14, 2015 - 09:19am PT
|
The famous Shoe Tree outside Bumphuk, Utah.
I guess even Momo kids need to let their hair down.
|
|
couchmaster
climber
|
|
|
Oct 14, 2015 - 09:21am PT
|
I'm a horrible person. Wanted to make my wife happy on our last camping trip in N Calif. a few months back and pandered to her and gave them $5 to drive through the redwood tree they'd cut a hole in to rake in the tourist bucks.
Pretty impressive chainsaw work though. She made me do it on 2 more drive thru trees. She was very happy with it, so there is that.
|
|
Cragar
climber
MSLA - MT
|
|
|
Oct 14, 2015 - 11:33am PT
|
Bouldering trees. This is at the bottom of a short avy path. It protects some trees and allows others to rest and decay for a spell...
105 year old stumps, brought to you by the Great Burn of 1910. I used to do this ride yearly to visit some arrowhead chip sites, the GreatBurn fire scar, mountain goats and my self n'sh!t! Now it is illegal to ride as it is and has been a wilderness study area for decades. Just recently it has been made off limits to mechanized objects.
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Oct 14, 2015 - 07:22pm PT
|
|
|
Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
|
|
|
Oct 16, 2015 - 06:48am PT
|
^^^ if those Junipers could only talk.
Imagine what his old olive tree has seen sitting there in Spain all these years....
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Oct 16, 2015 - 02:47pm PT
|
this tree's mistake was standing at the intersection of vegetable world
and meat with rack when testosterone driven trouble broke out
if i knew how to GIF these things round and round ...
|
|
SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
|
|
|
Oct 16, 2015 - 02:50pm PT
|
Here's a couple from Redwood NP. . .
|
|
jonnyrig
climber
|
|
|
Oct 18, 2015 - 11:19pm PT
|
|
|
Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
|
|
|
Oct 19, 2015 - 11:38am PT
|
ornery, ought, bitch
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Nov 28, 2015 - 07:55am PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Dec 14, 2015 - 10:06am PT
|
|
|
ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
|
|
|
|
Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
|
|
Bonzzi
up there at the top of the active chimney
And has been there for at least 60 yrs!
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Feb 20, 2016 - 06:21pm PT
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Mar 17, 2016 - 10:13am PT
|
Superlative shots, Dingus & hooblie!
I found a copy of Big Trees by Fry and White, two Sequoia NP officials from the early years. Judge Fry was the first civilian superintendent of the Giant Forest. Published in 1930, the photos are vintage. Here is a selection.
Fakt: The word "sequoia" happens to contain one each of all the vowels.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Mar 21, 2016 - 09:14am PT
|
When he was investigating in the West for the Saturday Evening Post [Joseph Hergesheimer], he approached the redwood district with the belief that lumbering was a necessity, and that it was rather unfair of those afar off to complain about matters they knew naught of. He had a prejudice against the cry, “Save the Redwoods!,” raised by individuals “against whom that saving, however imperative, might not be charged.” but when he actually got into the district, he found that everyone connected with the labor regretted the passing of the great trees.
“I lost, for the moment, my interest in economic lumbering, in utilization and variety of manufacture; I forgot who legally, rightfully owned that stand, any stand, of Coast Redwood trees.
“It was then that I remembered how rich as a nation we were, the onlly rich country left after the late disasters of modern civilization. Yet we hadn’t enough gold, with all our gold—we hadn’t the integrity, with all our show of public faith—to keep three or four or five hundred thousand acres of a natural magnificence needed more for the integrity of our fiber, the sheer future survival of spirit, than for surpluses of employment, of temporary gangs, crews of labor, and invested securities.
“Second growth everywhere would eventually replace the first; but nothing could bring back the serenity the forest had accumulated after a hundred million years. Standing in a grove, I thought of the bitter and vain resentment that the future—when it had learned that a commerce was not enough to keep the heart alive—would hold against the past, our present.
“The grace of the towering trees masked their gigantic span; the ground, in perpetual shadow, held only flowering oxalis in emerald ferns. It was raining very softly. The fallen trunks of an utter remoteness, too great to see over, were green with moss. The whisper of the wind was barely audible, far off, reflective; the gloom in the trees was clear, wet, and mild. It was the past.
“And this was the redwoods’ secret, their special magic, that they absolved, blotted out the fever of time, the wasted years, the sickness of mind, in which men spent the loneliness of their lives.”
--Excerpted from Big Trees by Fry and White
Editing in this shot of a tree that defines "gnarly."
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
Komurebi / Sycamore
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
All these great trees shots leaf me breathless. "Superthread."
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Apr 16, 2016 - 10:20am PT
|
Date palms.
NOT Rodeo Drive.
|
|
Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
|
|
|
Apr 16, 2016 - 07:30pm PT
|
Coast Live and Valley Oaks today in San Luis Obispo.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Apr 17, 2016 - 09:44am PT
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Apr 18, 2016 - 04:01pm PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Apr 18, 2016 - 05:53pm PT
|
rare to feel the ambiance of a welcoming attendant at a wire gate
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Apr 28, 2016 - 12:52am PT
|
*smooch*
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
Out in the dredge piles of Merced Falls.
MFM - trip to my brother's place with Flup Flap, 2nd of May 2016
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
Old Stands Alone.
MFM
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
Old Not-Long-for-This-World.
MFM
My buddy Mathis the Woodchuck tells me that all the pines on his Camp Runamucka property are gonna die from Beetlefest. This specimen in Vets Memorial Park is at death's door. Two other trees have been felled there recently due to their age or poor health.
Dawn, Vern's wife, says that in and around North Fock the problem seems just as bad as up in Tuolumne and Mariposa counties. Justin reported the pines last summer as about one-third infested and browning, but since then the situation has gone, for lack of a better term, "bug-fock."
Dawn claimed that no one bothers with getting a permit to cut downed, dead trees any longer because all they need do is to pull over and load up off the side of the road. The wood still burns well, apparently.
Good luck with that, all you woodchucks and tree-huggers alike.
Woodchucks, for those that don't know any, are guys with permits for resale, generally. There will be a pop quiz about quantities per woodchuck soon.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
May 10, 2016 - 07:12pm PT
|
A pair of California Buckeyes, bushes to some, trees to others.
"When does a bush become a tree?"--Rose Bush Gardner
In June the California buckeye assumes a vastly different hillside look:
Its leaves brown out in a distinctive tan and the grey bark contrasts with it, making the tree very striking in appearance.
The globes of this 'horse chestnut' are edible, I'm sure, but as a last resort before starvation.
"There's always some interviewer aking me that question, 'What's the deal with your name, Billy?'
I always tell them it's a diminutive of William."
--Billy Green Bush
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
May 15, 2016 - 06:05pm PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
May 16, 2016 - 11:38am PT
|
for these parts in particular, that's one helluva cottonwood, and not another in sight
|
|
Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
|
|
|
May 16, 2016 - 08:29pm PT
|
In honor of the man who started this thread:
And when he posts his TR about our time in central Oregon, you will learn more about this tree and this orchard.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
May 17, 2016 - 06:05am PT
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
May 20, 2016 - 03:58pm PT
|
|
|
dirt claud
Social climber
san diego,ca
|
|
|
May 25, 2016 - 11:02am PT
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
May 27, 2016 - 10:51pm PT
|
Courtwright.
Photo by micronut.
(cropped)
|
|
little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
|
|
|
May 28, 2016 - 03:37am PT
|
these guys are popping all over the landscape right now.
Delonix regia, known locally as Malinche. I think an English name for them is Royal Poinseana, or something like that.
close up of flowers
|
|
ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
|
|
|
May 28, 2016 - 09:20pm PT
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
May 29, 2016 - 07:55am PT
|
^^^Good framing choice, BIOTCH. Most provocative with b/w.
|
|
jeff constine
Trad climber
Ao Namao
|
|
|
May 29, 2016 - 09:13am PT
|
Climbing the 5th tallest tree in the world. The Stagg, Sequioa NF. 247' 113' dia.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
May 29, 2016 - 02:23pm PT
|
Jeff, thanks.
It's a beauty, formerly called the Day Tree, now memorializing Amos Alonzo Stagg, the popular UOP football coach.
According to Wiki, "In 1993 a group of climbers scaled the full height of the tree and discovered a hollow room inside its trunk near the very top."
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
May 29, 2016 - 03:52pm PT
|
On the approach to the Cookie.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
May 29, 2016 - 05:55pm PT
|
Another tree from that same day ^^^ on an epic voyage in my new used car.
You should recognize it easily enough if you've driven Hwy 120 into YNP.
For those who don't, it is at the intersection of Smith Station Road, known as the "Historic John Muir Route," and which takes you over and DOWN DOWN DOWN to Coulterville on Hwy 49.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Jun 12, 2016 - 02:08pm PT
|
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2016 - 01:40pm PT
|
OK, not native but a nice tree...
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Jul 16, 2016 - 02:32pm PT
|
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 16, 2016 - 07:54am PT
|
Beauties!!
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 16, 2016 - 07:56am PT
|
From my own place.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Aug 17, 2016 - 03:35pm PT
|
Double vision.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Aug 17, 2016 - 03:42pm PT
|
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 17, 2016 - 05:38pm PT
|
Cemetery grandfather, Peedee Oregon.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Aug 21, 2016 - 12:04pm PT
|
Bradford Pear or Callery Pear.
Night palms.
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Aug 21, 2016 - 04:48pm PT
|
|
|
Edge
Trad climber
Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO
|
|
|
Aug 21, 2016 - 05:15pm PT
|
Rumored to be either the oldest or second oldest Douglas fir on the Front Range, possibly the state. Karol is 5' 3" tall; this old grandfather is fully four+ feet in diameter and multi-hundreds of years old.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Aug 25, 2016 - 04:56am PT
|
Redbud in El Portal.
|
|
craig morris
Trad climber
la
|
|
|
Aug 25, 2016 - 08:47am PT
|
kings canyon has a lot of dead trees. after i saw this tree I watched a tree fall on the other side of the river just random. Very little wind at the time.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Aug 31, 2016 - 12:02pm PT
|
|
|
zBrown
Ice climber
|
|
|
Sep 26, 2016 - 08:10pm PT
|
I'm taking down, to my chagrin, a 50 foot, 5 foot circumference Shamel Ash which was planted five feet from the house wall and concrete slab.
I feel bad since it was a volunteer which I transplanted when it was about one foot tall,
Mistake?
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
The Four Graces.
|
|
BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
|
|
I've done some huge solo hikes in and across the Brooks Range to the Beaufort Sea.
You begin in boreal forest. It is mainly black spruce, but it is pretty thick, even north of the Arctic Circle.
As you continue north, the trees start to dwindle, and become more spread out.
Finally you will arrive at the last tree. Every last tree that I've run into was a stunted black spruce no taller than me. Those trees are hundreds of years old, but they don't grow much. The permafrost is getting shallower, and the growing season is getting shorter.
Here is the last tree in the E Fork of the Chandalar River, in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge:
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Oct 20, 2016 - 10:57am PT
|
this section of route 66 was bypassed and left for feral,so this juniper got busy ... for an enterprising while. alas, i suspect vigilante maintenance.
what dreams lurk within the husks of the class of '16?
some are bound to hold the line
|
|
Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
|
|
|
Oct 20, 2016 - 11:03am PT
|
Not long now
]when I 1st used the snag in these pictures it was green and supple,
Only leaning it was a multi-directional top rope anchor,
I don't want to say how long the other drunks like me have used the arching trunk to swing over,
sit and down a six up there then swing back across the gap across on this tree's arching top the part now in the dirt when I pulled the end it came down, I got some dust in my eyes, that brought tears. . .
__
And boundary tree RIP, I took no eveidtury snaps of the sectioned tree trunk
|
|
WyoRockMan
climber
Grizzlyville, WY
|
|
|
Oct 24, 2016 - 12:24pm PT
|
|
|
jonnyrig
climber
|
|
|
Oct 30, 2016 - 10:14pm PT
|
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Nov 18, 2016 - 07:12am PT
|
Arborial scoliosis...
|
|
G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
|
|
|
Nov 18, 2016 - 09:12am PT
|
Dingus, thanks for all the tree shots. Some of us really appreciate you taking the time to post them up.
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Nov 19, 2016 - 05:10pm PT
|
My pecan tree...
|
|
EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
|
|
|
Nov 19, 2016 - 06:03pm PT
|
|
|
EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
|
|
|
Nov 19, 2016 - 08:53pm PT
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Nov 20, 2016 - 08:57am PT
|
November in California.
Ed B, I love that spot by the Swinging Bridge. Excellent shots, as always.
|
|
EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
|
|
|
Nov 20, 2016 - 02:55pm PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Nov 20, 2016 - 03:12pm PT
|
|
|
EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
|
|
|
Nov 20, 2016 - 03:48pm PT
|
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Nov 20, 2016 - 04:09pm PT
|
Alas, poor Yorick!
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Nov 20, 2016 - 05:11pm PT
|
|
|
EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
|
|
|
Nov 20, 2016 - 06:01pm PT
|
Hooblie !!! that tree is amazing.
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Nov 20, 2016 - 06:26pm PT
|
agreed! it's the one on the right. big fan of piñon herea dry and well seasoned branch parts easily on a plane normal (perpendicular) to it's length.
downside: tree climbers should be extremely cautious of handle size branches that shear off without warning.
upside: the way upward can be cleared with sharp blows and kicks. bonus: a barrel full of cob length branch wood
can be had in short order using only the rim as a whacking fulcrum with minimum numbness. edible bonus: pine nuts!
|
|
DM88T
climber
San Dimas CA 3.11 X
|
|
|
Nov 20, 2016 - 07:34pm PT
|
|
|
EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
|
|
|
Nov 20, 2016 - 09:44pm PT
|
|
|
guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
|
|
|
Nov 23, 2016 - 06:11pm PT
|
The Russian Front!
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
^^^Very moving, Guido.
Peace in our time.
|
|
Andy Fielding
Trad climber
UK
|
|
Before and after reducing, thinning and crown raising my own walnut tree.
|
|
guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
|
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Dec 25, 2016 - 05:22pm PT
|
|
|
neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
|
|
|
Dec 25, 2016 - 06:05pm PT
|
hey there say, guys... wow, thanks... these are GREAT trees...
thank you!
|
|
ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
|
|
|
Dec 25, 2016 - 06:45pm PT
|
Pollock Pines
|
|
EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
|
|
|
Dec 25, 2016 - 09:05pm PT
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Dec 25, 2016 - 09:43pm PT
|
Mouse on the Street sees a man on his feet.
What did they say when they did greet?
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
|
|
DM88T
climber
Dave Tully SanDimas,California
|
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
the story ^^^ tells the picture this time, nicely shared among the most proximate of ponderosa to my digs, ~10kms
this one ceeding the post
|
|
EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
|
|
DMT beeeyoootiful shot
|
|
HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
|
|
Very few of the locals know about this small area of really big Douglas Firs. There are also a large number of smaller Redwoods.
This is the only big Redwood I've found.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
Not my observation, but one which I tend to agree somewhat. There's lots of room for argument but it won't do s__t to save any trees.
On the way through Midpines today traffic stopped for tree removal near the highway. Everywhere you see decks of logs waiting to be hauled to the mills.
There aren't enough mills in the area, so they go elsewhere. The locals man the tree crews as sign-tenders and ancillary workers. Cutters and tree climbers are experts from all over taking advantage of the boom. The jobs lost to out-of-county mills is a shame.
The work is being done near the roads first as a sop to the tourist traffic hereabouts. It's too bad the pines are dying, but there's the opened-up vista, which means the forest will have a chance to regain something of what it was, but this is beyond my caring. Ain't whack-doodle I can do but watch.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Jan 18, 2017 - 07:18am PT
|
Is that a bovine on the ridge? NICE.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Jan 20, 2017 - 06:47am PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Jan 20, 2017 - 12:15pm PT
|
|
|
EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
|
|
|
Jan 23, 2017 - 03:42pm PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Jan 26, 2017 - 07:47pm PT
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
A drupe, with a stone for a heart, like the apricots;
But someone will buy it for firewood,
Thereby causing a glow in their hearth;
And that cannot be measured in cords or lumens or watts.
|
|
thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
|
|
hear-hear for the ledge-trees, them pop-stops, them autodidactic autotrophs
|
|
little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
|
|
the Tababuia rosea trees are in full bloom here in the dry forest in NW Costa Rica.
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Feb 13, 2017 - 01:47am PT
|
|
|
Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
|
|
|
Feb 13, 2017 - 05:46am PT
|
.
I'm confused,
this is not my snap, I think it is The Brave Cowboys ' ? Awesome bush on the way, & going on, to be a tree.
|
|
Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
|
|
|
Feb 13, 2017 - 06:29am PT
|
On Thanksgivings and Easters, all those long weekends before teenage freedom,The family unit went to Conneticut. Loyd Stiusny, an Eagle Scout, who split for Alaska in '77 the oldest brother of three - 2nd generation children,
his two sisters and he were only separated by three years.
While Mamma Ruthie was from, Saskatchewan,
Jack(badazze'd Dad) was 1st gen American, ex Tenth Mnt, he saw to it that we went climbing. Loyd, now, twice married and living a second father-hood, we have only spoken at those high's and lows of Family get togethers; Births weddings and funerals.
In that far-ago and long-away, there were no trees on these hillsides. You'd never guess what hides behind the trees
That fine, hi-grade for hillside chossWith heavy snow, It ices nice tooSo Not all that sapling growth, had to go.
Edit: suddenly, as proud as I am of my Bushman ways and hard work, I decided that y'all know what a hack job looks like,
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Feb 13, 2017 - 09:10am PT
|
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Feb 13, 2017 - 09:15am PT
|
Gnome, thems weeds. Wack 'em! Uncle Fred Beckey wacked 80' firs at Castle Rock, WA
to get better photo ops.
|
|
Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
|
|
|
Feb 13, 2017 - 04:47pm PT
|
I left some saplings. It willhelp hold the hillside and the flat spots that the cuttings also help to make
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Feb 15, 2017 - 08:18am PT
|
It will likely survive me, too.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Feb 15, 2017 - 08:21am PT
|
These date palms are now 112 years old.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Feb 21, 2017 - 09:56pm PT
|
|
|
EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
|
|
|
Feb 21, 2017 - 10:16pm PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Feb 22, 2017 - 02:12am PT
|
alligator juniper
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
'n other'n
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Mar 11, 2017 - 10:08am PT
|
this morning out of the corner of the eye i wasn't rubbing, i saw the need to stop in my tracks
and step back from the down breeze stampede of juniper pollen that exploded from a nearby tree.
how in the world does a tree release so suddenly/uniformly without a nervous system?
these events are so time bound that after the caboose passed i was able to proceeded with caution.
i don't begrudge them their wanton pleasure, though it might better be thought of as hanky-panky
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Mar 18, 2017 - 04:13am PT
|
Sound of one palm clapping.
|
|
guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
|
|
|
Mar 26, 2017 - 10:15am PT
|
|
|
little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
|
|
|
Mar 26, 2017 - 12:20pm PT
|
under a flowering Water Apple Tree
strangler fig hanging on for dear life on offshore islet
|
|
Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
|
|
6,000 year old Baobab Tree, Senegal
Why would anyone want to go to Mars?
|
|
little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
|
|
|
Apr 13, 2017 - 08:13am PT
|
the Mayo Colorados (Vochysia ferruginea) are popping now down in the lowlands
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Apr 24, 2017 - 01:22pm PT
|
Even when they pass on they continue to provide...
|
|
Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
|
|
|
Apr 24, 2017 - 07:43pm PT
|
Earlier this last winter, Upper Echo Lake.....many beautiful Western Junipers in that zone.
|
|
guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
|
|
|
Apr 30, 2017 - 05:11pm PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
^^^ west coast bliss !!!
|
|
Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
|
|
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
May 11, 2017 - 03:41pm PT
|
Proud Cottonwood at Indian Gardens, Grand Canyon...
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
May 28, 2017 - 02:38am PT
|
|
|
Rcklzrd
Trad climber
Prescott, AZ
|
|
|
May 28, 2017 - 03:11pm PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
Going coastal.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Jun 12, 2017 - 03:19am PT
|
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Jun 12, 2017 - 10:15am PT
|
Nice tree, eh? It is doing a nice job of sheltering
T.E. Lawrence's grave. Yes, the very.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Jun 12, 2017 - 07:32pm PT
|
Prometheus was bound to die.
It's just too bad he had to go so young.
Sycamore tree.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Jun 16, 2017 - 08:58pm PT
|
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
What were the odds?
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
300 yr old Yew trees at Hampton Court Palace. Yew was the wood of choice for longbows.
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
You can't keep a gud tree down...
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
|
Timmc
climber
BC
|
|
BC just declared a Provincial State of Emergency with 140 fires breaking out yesterday alone.
Sending cool thoughts with this interior western red cedar.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Jul 12, 2017 - 11:12am PT
|
Yosemite's first guardian, Galen Clark.The species is native to California but found outside of it as well. Common names ~ Canyon Oak, Canyon Live Oak, Gold Cup Oak.
|
|
ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
|
|
|
Jul 16, 2017 - 12:01pm PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Jul 20, 2017 - 07:19am PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Jul 23, 2017 - 04:11am PT
|
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Jul 31, 2017 - 07:52am PT
|
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Jul 31, 2017 - 08:56pm PT
|
Rough neighborhood...
|
|
Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
|
|
Anyone recognize this tree with the flat top???
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Aug 10, 2017 - 04:35pm PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Aug 12, 2017 - 06:45am PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Aug 31, 2017 - 09:41am PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
Is it...could it possibly be...Sugar Pine Herbert?
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
piñon pitch! think of it as hobo frankincense, from this species:
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
^^^Rootie-toot-toot, Ed. Nice one.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
Flagstaff's big willow tree.
|
|
DM88T
climber
Dave Tully SanDimas,California
|
|
|
Sep 11, 2017 - 10:55am PT
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Sep 11, 2017 - 02:04pm PT
|
|
|
guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
|
|
|
Sep 11, 2017 - 05:15pm PT
|
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Sep 11, 2017 - 06:50pm PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Sep 11, 2017 - 08:27pm PT
|
even parts of trees are coolespecially when they're spread kind of thin
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Sep 13, 2017 - 08:06am PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Oct 12, 2017 - 09:58pm PT
|
|
|
tbailey
Trad climber
canoga park
|
|
|
Oct 18, 2017 - 11:35am PT
|
|
|
Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
|
|
|
Oct 22, 2017 - 07:09pm PT
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Oct 23, 2017 - 08:03am PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Oct 24, 2017 - 07:15pm PT
|
|
|
guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
|
|
|
Oct 24, 2017 - 08:42pm PT
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Oct 27, 2017 - 09:41am PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Oct 28, 2017 - 03:15am PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Nov 10, 2017 - 07:53am PT
|
|
|
Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
|
|
|
Nov 20, 2017 - 09:41am PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Nov 22, 2017 - 08:17pm PT
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Nov 24, 2017 - 05:06am PT
|
Same tree, lower down.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Nov 24, 2017 - 05:42am PT
|
Dingus, the old oak tree you found recalls one I saw in Jerseydale, Mariposa County. It overlooks the Merced's South Fork upstream from Hites Cove.
I cannot say if it is bigger, but it's in the same league. There are a number of NA grinding holes located in the granite nearby. A creek runs through the area, draining the meadow in Jerseydale where the old Double Eagle 9-hole golf course was located; now abandoned, the clubhouse still stands as a monument to folly and disrespect for nature.
No pics and the last time I viewed the tree and its cousins was almost 20 years ago.
This also jogged my memory about the famous Hooker Oak which stood in Chico, named for Sir Joseph Hooker, the English scientist. It was said to be the largest in the world by Sir Joseph and the tradition was carried on until it fell (1977).
Personnel at both Cal Oak and University of California Berkeley Forestry Lab became intrigued with the lumber. The wood turned out to be as remarkable as was the tree. In order to support its immense crown, the tree grew an abnormal portion of support wood on the upper side of its limbs and stems. This type wood is known as "tension wood" and helped provide the tree with an unbelievable high density: .88 specific gravity, roughly 50% heavier than surrounding oaks. This together with other special characteristics, provided the wood with its unique grain and character, and the tree, apparently with its longevity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooker_Oak
|
|
justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
|
|
|
Nov 24, 2017 - 06:06am PT
|
Nice. Some. Cool old oaks.
One tree I miss from living down south.
That factoid about the "tension wood" is interesting. I've befriended a tree geneticist. He's pretty interesting to talk to. Some of these adaptions are likely genetic and may give one tree a leg up when it come to outliving their neighbors by a few centuries(or millennia in the case of the Bristlecones)
Speaking of Bristlecones ... all I got on the I pad of course
Patriarch Grove
This tree here is so old the original trunk has been completely blasted away by wind-blown ice and the rock has eroded away under the roots. Trees like this cannot be dated since the original pith is long gone. Tree ring data is worthless on a tree like this.
It grows so slowly it only throws down one cell thickness a year... if it even bothers to wake up for the summer.
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Nov 24, 2017 - 09:04am PT
|
Live oak in Da Hood...
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Nov 24, 2017 - 06:23pm PT
|
several nice images of surface murk today dingus. me & my nostrilswell, we miss that stuff. no dewey peach fuzz around here lately
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Nov 29, 2017 - 06:20pm PT
|
|
|
guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
|
|
|
Nov 29, 2017 - 07:04pm PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
|
Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
|
|
|
Dec 11, 2017 - 05:48am PT
|
The oldest apple tree in Washington. That's what the arborist who cares for it says.
Makes sense, because it's growing next to the oldest residential building still standing in WA.
Ferry House, 1860, Whidbey Island.
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
|
Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
|
|
|
Jan 13, 2018 - 12:47pm PT
|
The Torrey Pine is one of the rarest pine trees in the world. A few wild groves exist in Northern, Coastal San Diego and a varient grows on Santa Rosa Island. These populations are tiny vestiges of larger forests thriving during the last ice age. The tree produces a pine nut that the coastal Kumeyaay Indians enjoyed. They are a medium to large pine tree that gets quite massive when irrigated (up to 140 feet).
If you visit San Diego, don't miss Torrey Pines State Park!
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Jan 13, 2018 - 02:56pm PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Jan 19, 2018 - 10:19am PT
|
been bumpin' around the JP for a while now and size wise, either my hat shrunk (hanging there) or this is one swole shaggy bark
that's the monster juniper, center frame
|
|
zBrown
Ice climber
|
|
|
Jan 19, 2018 - 08:18pm PT
|
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Jan 29, 2018 - 02:34pm PT
|
^^^^ La Femme grew up with those.
The Mulberry Tree by Vincent.
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Jan 29, 2018 - 07:30pm PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
|
jonnyrig
climber
|
|
|
Feb 11, 2018 - 07:34pm PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Feb 15, 2018 - 07:27am PT
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Feb 15, 2018 - 07:32am PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Mar 29, 2018 - 07:33am PT
|
|
|
StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
|
|
|
Mar 29, 2018 - 08:59am PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Apr 12, 2018 - 08:11am PT
|
|
|
Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
|
|
|
Apr 12, 2018 - 08:25am PT
|
Big Joshua Tree in Lee Flat.
|
|
steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
|
|
|
Apr 12, 2018 - 08:43am PT
|
|
|
steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
|
|
|
Apr 12, 2018 - 08:43am PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Apr 18, 2018 - 05:29am PT
|
it was a perfectly calm day on the j-p but this specimen never got the memo
|
|
clifff
Mountain climber
golden, rollin hills of California
|
|
|
Apr 22, 2018 - 09:07am PT
|
Coast Redwoods Siphon Water From the Top and Bottom
Researchers are discovering that the giant trees can alter their environments, both on the ground and in their complex canopies hundreds of feet in the air.
"You essentially have two ends that take in water -- at the top and the bottom," Dawson said. "That breaks all the rules ... and may explain how they can achieve these great heights."
Some redwoods have lived since the days of Jesus Christ. With time, their immense, complex canopies trap needles, dust and seeds, creating peaty soil mats a yard thick and as big as a bus that grow plants, sustain animals and absorb water hundreds of feet above the ground.
"Eventually, you get this huge sponge that builds up," said Steve Sillett, a Humboldt State professor who began studying the phenomena in redwoods in 1996. "During most of the year, it's an aquatic environment up there" fed by rain and fog.
He's discovered mollusks, crustaceans and other animals ordinarily found in stream beds -- even the wandering salamander, which lacks lungs and must stay moist to absorb oxygen through its skin.
Like trees in the Pacific Northwest and other temperate rain forests and cloud forests, the redwoods sprout canopy roots from their branches that Sillett believes take in water and nutrients from the hidden gardens.
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/sep/01/news/adme-redwoods1
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Apr 24, 2018 - 03:12pm PT
|
This Chinese Elm was only 2’ tall but I thought it great!
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
May 24, 2018 - 11:56am PT
|
anybody know what this tree is named? near north fork, native or exotic? fruiting?
edit: thanks TTR, good answer
|
|
BigB
Trad climber
Red Rock
|
|
|
May 29, 2018 - 08:35am PT
|
|
|
Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
|
|
|
May 29, 2018 - 01:30pm PT
|
Along the Merced
|
|
NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
|
|
|
May 29, 2018 - 03:34pm PT
|
I just used up the last of my bay leaves in a spinach chicken dish this week... Time to get outside again:
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
May 29, 2018 - 07:07pm PT
|
|
|
NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
|
|
|
May 29, 2018 - 09:38pm PT
|
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
Trees? We don’t need no stinkin’ trees! FYI - this is the tree line in Norge at about 2800’!
In another week we’ll be far enough north that the tree line will be barely above sea level!
|
|
Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
|
|
|
Jul 18, 2018 - 10:50am PT
|
El Dorado County’s oldest residents, the stories they could tell.
|
|
little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
|
|
|
Jul 18, 2018 - 11:37am PT
|
fig trees that have taken over an old corral
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Jul 18, 2018 - 01:22pm PT
|
OK, not any one tree but Sweedin sure has a bunch of ‘em!
|
|
little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
|
|
|
Jul 22, 2018 - 06:24pm PT
|
Great Tree / humble field stone combos
|
|
originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
|
|
|
Jul 22, 2018 - 07:11pm PT
|
Up on Donner.
|
|
Tim Bermingham
Mountain climber
Jamestown, California. U.S.A.
|
|
Firefighters hope to save this tree in Tuolumne County.
|
|
guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
|
|
|
Aug 19, 2018 - 04:03pm PT
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Aug 19, 2018 - 06:09pm PT
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Aug 25, 2018 - 12:27pm PT
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Aug 25, 2018 - 12:29pm PT
|
Mother Lode oaks.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Aug 25, 2018 - 12:31pm PT
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Aug 25, 2018 - 12:33pm PT
|
|
|
ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
|
|
|
Aug 25, 2018 - 10:14pm PT
|
Nice pics MFM - - I like your style.
|
|
Aeriq
Social climber
Location: It's a MisterE
|
|
|
Sep 28, 2018 - 07:22am PT
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Oct 21, 2018 - 05:43am PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Oct 21, 2018 - 07:37am PT
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Oct 21, 2018 - 09:03am PT
|
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Oct 21, 2018 - 09:19am PT
|
|
|
Aeriq
Social climber
Location: It's a MisterE
|
|
|
Oct 21, 2018 - 09:21am PT
|
DMT: Nice juniper shot, that last one.
|
|
neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
|
|
|
Oct 23, 2018 - 05:11pm PT
|
hey there, say, everyone... wow, these are so very wonderful!!
and, to: i-b-goB, say, that tree-house info, is really special, thanks!
here you all go...
i enjoyed these, hope you do to:
BANYAN:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9BMPRZkUqw&fbclid=IwAR1PLRJo_OZkPAHdm2umkhUz0tlSvvtm2kXCXsNPO3-T5XAUAAeTIKOnyCA
1,000 YEAR OLD CHERRY - JAPAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ojSV_vs9Hs&fbclid=IwAR2uHr1NJ1D8OV7FofiRK2qezfd0IDc3edjMVmUfqyT67VCZxTVG8ZmdGzE
BIGGEST TREES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFBo5bj1tfU&fbclid=IwAR1KSd4LmDbEcaCg25fUCik62KzjwiAXrREBkJYYqFkdbUhSGHefjZHxVIc
STRANGEST TREES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbsWWdgdZNw&fbclid=IwAR2Q9ENy3ZR68OR6tYz1_9TSlzADWaw83tPR34TqTKTWm4-wIVNV8m2ChnI
ALSO-- cliff... and DMT ... thanks! so much!
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Oct 23, 2018 - 05:20pm PT
|
Whatcha think, hooblie?
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
Coast Range backdrop.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Nov 11, 2018 - 02:54am PT
|
Thanks for the advice from the ol' Arborist.
This is my early-early Christmas card for you folks on the tree lot.
You'll be settin' up shortly, so:
Splendid Season to you,
Splendid Season to you,
Splendid Season,
Splendid Season,
Splendid Season to you!
|
|
Jim Clipper
climber
|
|
|
Nov 24, 2018 - 10:26pm PT
|
very nice DMT, reminds me a little of Christopher Burkett. FWIW little isn't meant as an insult at all. check out his stuff.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Feb 14, 2019 - 06:20pm PT
|
|
|
NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
|
|
|
Mar 21, 2019 - 10:26pm PT
|
Here's my favorite tree:
And my favorite picture of leaves... light filtering through Bay Laurel in Muir Woods on a special day with my lady:
|
|
Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
|
|
|
Mar 21, 2019 - 11:24pm PT
|
Here's a 26 year old photo of a tree in my neighborhood that I'd be willing to bet that there are fewer than a dozen people who have ever been to it.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Mar 21, 2019 - 11:45pm PT
|
Maybe because it's fogged in so much? Makes it hard to see. Beautiful tree and location, location, location.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Mar 22, 2019 - 07:47am PT
|
The hike in was much easier this time.
Had a hit of ADAPTITUDE, dude!
Get some!
Wherever it is sold...my stash is a promo, sorry.
|
|
Rcklzrd
Trad climber
Prescott, AZ
|
|
|
Mar 22, 2019 - 01:42pm PT
|
|
|
rincon
climber
Coarsegold
|
|
|
Apr 20, 2019 - 09:30am PT
|
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Apr 24, 2019 - 04:07am PT
|
chinaberry tree, in march!
|
|
d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
|
|
|
Apr 24, 2019 - 11:24am PT
|
Rincon, that tree is crawling across the ground!
I sure miss Survival input on the forum.
|
|
tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
|
|
|
Apr 24, 2019 - 05:25pm PT
|
Family favorite that we've hiked by for decades, and the kids always have to duck into the hollow.
|
|
TClimberByTrade
climber
Santa Ana
|
|
|
Apr 25, 2019 - 06:50am PT
|
Largo -> non competitive codominance.
Union with upward and outward growth patterns.
Braun, I was in a Tuolumne County public office yesterday looking for tree work. If you have park contacts for tree work let me know.
|
|
| Messages 1 - 969 of total 969 in this topic |
|
SuperTopo on the Web
|
Let us know!