biggest, tallest tree photo ever

Knucklehead
Knucklehead Posts: 3,602
edited October 2009 in The Clubhouse
this is amazing

http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2009/09/redwoods.html
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,684
    edited October 2009
    Did the Forestry Service put a lightning rod on that tree ? If so, nice job.


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  • Rodeo0530
    Rodeo0530 Posts: 797
    edited October 2009
    I saw this earlier...that is absolutely amazing!


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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited October 2009
    I camped out in Sequoia Park last year. Amazing place.

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  • sTiLlLeArNiNg
    sTiLlLeArNiNg Posts: 805
    edited October 2009
    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
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited October 2009
    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?
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited October 2009
    I'm pretty sure the tree you could drive through is long gone.
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  • vc69
    vc69 Posts: 2,500
    edited October 2009
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure the tree you could drive through is long gone.

    Nope.

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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,684
    edited October 2009
    vc69 wrote: »
    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.

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  • sTiLlLeArNiNg
    sTiLlLeArNiNg Posts: 805
    edited October 2009
    obieone wrote: »
    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....
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  • superjunior
    superjunior Posts: 1,632
    edited October 2009
    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
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  • del44
    del44 Posts: 686
    edited October 2009
    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.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited October 2009
    del44 wrote: »
    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.
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  • superjunior
    superjunior Posts: 1,632
    edited October 2009
    del44 wrote: »
    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
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  • sTiLlLeArNiNg
    sTiLlLeArNiNg Posts: 805
    edited October 2009
    @ bobman DAMN!! :eek: Those some BIG tree's!

    Link to Carmanah valley park http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/carmanah.html home of the tallest tree in Canada IIRC 95m
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  • snow
    snow Posts: 4,337
    edited October 2009
    Truly awesome trees no doubt. I seen a show last week on National Geographic about these.



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  • del44
    del44 Posts: 686
    edited October 2009
    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.
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