Redwoods 8/2012. Photos, Tour, Discovery

[mdvaden]

A few days ago, I met a couple (Leon & Tracy) from South Africa, for a tour in the north California redwoods. Leon later came up to Portland, for the ISA conference and to watch the ITCC at the urban Laurelhurst Park.

 

Two days before meeting them in Crescent City, CA, I was down at Avenue of the Giants, and found a Bigleaf Maple that is roughly 155 ft. tall. (47.2 meters). That was a crude preliminary. It should be between 152 to 160 ft. The may be a taller top. This week I bumped into researchers VanPelt and Sillett at the ITCC, and they seem to know of no other maple in the USA that tall. Will Blozan wrote of specimens in the east USA in the 140 ft. to 144 ft. range.

 

Also measured the "Founders Tree" and learned that it's really more of a 325' tree, rather than the 346' on the sign. Been years since that was measured. That was just a fun measure. It's more of a significant redwood, not really a super tall one compared to the tallest.

 

One other day, I networked with a local model to experiment with some photos at Avenue of the Giants in a redwood grove, and farther north in Eureka at a stack of logs.

 

[mdvaden]

A few more.

 

The Founders Tree is a popular tourist attraction at Avenue of the Giants, but a lot of visitors find as much interest in the fallen Dyerville Giant a few minutes away.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

always stonking images from you Md, thanks for posting

[ben lightfoot]

I just cant imagine the first limb being 190ft, one day i will visit the giants

[Taupotreeman]

Can't wait to get there next year and see them for myself.

[mdvaden]

Can't wait to get there next year and see them for myself.

 

They're waiting for you too, mate, lol

 

 

Hey ... here's a couple more photos from the past week and recently.

[will.morris]

Great to see Thanks for sharing

[mdvaden]

Great to see Thanks for sharing

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Can't wait to get there next year and see them for myself.

 

Pertaining to seeing trees, the end of this month will be unique for me. I'll be going to "see" the Giant Sequoia forest of the Sierra Nevada for the first time.

 

When I was showing Leon & Tracy the Coast Redwoods this week, I had a flashback to the first time I saw them myself. I recalled my first drives in, and how foreign the area felt.

 

Now I'll be going to another forest and getting to have the same kind of experience. Looking forward to it.

[Warren Stirling]

Second picture down on the left in your first post is something else.

[mdvaden]

Second picture down on the left in your first post is something else.

 

That's a favorite redwood, since it's so unusually shaped. There's lot of old archaic looking trees in that area.

 

This cathedral redwood is in the same little valley.