biggest, tallest tree photo ever

[Knucklehead]

this is amazing

http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow.../redwoods.html

[mrbigbluelight]

Did the Forestry Service put a lightning rod on that tree ? If so, nice job.

[Rodeo0530]

I saw this earlier...that is absolutely amazing!

[bobman1235]

I camped out in Sequoia Park last year. Amazing place.

















More here : http://picasaweb.google.com/bobman12...ndKingsCanyon#

[sTiLlLeArNiNg]

You guy's like "big wood" check out the carmana (sp?) valley in BC ;)

Went out west there when i was ~10 and was both amazed and disgusted! I was amazed at the sheer size of the tree's and disgusted by the remnant's of the logging day's. I guess that's the price of "progress" :o

[obieone]

IIRC, wasn't there a tree that, they had cut a hole in, that you could drive thru it?
I thought I remembered seeing a picture to that effect?

[bobman1235]

I'm pretty sure the tree you could drive through is long gone.

[vc69]

I'm pretty sure the tree you could drive through is long gone.

Nope.

http://redwoods.info/showrecord.asp?id=2464

[mrbigbluelight]

Nope.

http://redwoods.info/showrecord.asp?id=2464

Yep. At least the one in Yosemite.

"The tree with a highway running through it was located in Yosemite National Park. It was a Giant Sequoia and it fell in 1969."

There are 3 other giant sequoias that are drive-through, all on private land.

http://redwoods.info/showrecord.asp?id=2464

[sTiLlLeArNiNg]

IIRC, wasn't there a tree that, they had cut a hole in, that you could drive thru it?
I thought I remembered seeing a picture to that effect?

you go through one when you're heading down the logging road to the carmana valley park entrance....

[superjunior]

man those are some awesome pics, those old growth trees out west are so impressive. I've been up a couple big seqouias and redwoods when I lived in seattle, they're like skyscrapers. got some old pics I'll try to dig up when I was a youngster

[del44]

Awesome tree. I've been to the Redwoods and Sequoias on vacations. The wife and I astually drove our 78 Chevy van through one of the Redwoods, can't emember which one though. Also, didn't I read somewhere that the tallest tree ever recorded was actually a Douglas Fir and not a Redwood? Could be wrong though.

[Keiko]

Don't let Curt around those with a chainsaw. He's likely to go Leatherface. :p

[bobman1235]

Also, didn't I read somewhere that the tallest tree ever recorded was actually a Douglas Fir and not a Redwood? Could be wrong though.

According to this site the tallest tree ever recorded was a Eucalyptus tree.

[superjunior]

Awesome tree. I've been to the Redwoods and Sequoias on vacations. The wife and I astually drove our 78 Chevy van through one of the Redwoods, can't emember which one though. Also, didn't I read somewhere that the tallest tree ever recorded was actually a Douglas Fir and not a Redwood? Could be wrong though.

the tallest live tree to date is general sherman, a redwood in cali I beleive. I've been up some huge doug firs though, well over 200ft

[sTiLlLeArNiNg]

@ bobman DAMN!! Those some BIG tree's!

Link to Carmanah valley park http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/exp.../carmanah.html home of the tallest tree in Canada IIRC 95m

[snow]

Truly awesome trees no doubt. I seen a show last week on National Geographic about these.



REGARDS SNOW

[del44]

Yea bobman, them's the biggies. The one I was thinking of was only 385 feet tall. Just a baby compared to those Eucalyptus's.