National Geographic article on Redwoods

[xtm]

Check out the October 2009 issue of National Geographic. It features an article on California redwoods with several photos of climbers on some tall ones.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/10/redwoods/bourne-text

Click on Redwood Portrait for a great photo of climbers on a 300 footer.

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[TheLumberJack]

I almost bought it a couple days back just for the foldout poster but then decided I could use more bar oil instead.

Cool issue though.

 

[xtm]

Right you are about that foldout poster! That is one of the best photographs I've seen in recent NGs. I'll post a link to it.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/redwoods/gatefold-image

The leftist slant of their articles is getting close to my maximum level of tolerance, but I still enjoy the photos.

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[TheLumberJack]

To think that tree was a sapling in the year 509....

 

[M.D. Vaden]

Good shot for a winter scene. Maybe that season was ideal, but maybe that's just when they had time. Got so used to my avatar, and forgot it's the same redwood.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I just got done watching the one hour show on the NatGeo channel. HD, big screen....wow!

 

[M.D. Vaden]

I just got done watching the one hour show on the NatGeo channel. HD, big screen....wow!

The video is very good. Now that your mentioned it, I'll probably order one this week.

It must have been a piece of work to rig the cameras. The big trunk in this photo is the Nat Geo redwood. A lot of photos must have been taken in front of the other trees, between those and the big one. This is the side the photos were taken from.

Wish I kept another image, standing under the gap and looking up into it. Pretty small space that they took the photos from for the composite.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

They touched on the making of that composite, I think it was eighty something frames to make it up, and they took over a week to get it right. I'd like to see a "making of" that show, they had to have some really cool tram-lines set up for the cameras to get some of the footage; some looked like a helo was running in between the boles.

 

[dingeryote]

I just got done watching the one hour show on the NatGeo channel. HD, big screen....wow!

It was on the other night. 52" tooob in HD. NICE!
Nat Geo did a spectacular job filming that one!

Stay safe!
Dingeryote

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

It was on the other night. 52" tooob in HD. NICE!
Nat Geo did a spectacular job filming that one!

Stay safe!
Dingeryote

Ours is in the low 40's, cant quite remember. I started out saying it was too big, what did-you-waste-money-on-that-for-honey!

Now every time a good nature/outdoor program comes on I tell her i want a bigger screen

 

[dingeryote]

Ours is in the low 40's, cant quite remember. I started out saying it was too big, what did-you-waste-money-on-that-for-honey!

Now every time a good nature/outdoor program comes on I tell her i want a bigger screen

Same here.

We went 17 years with a 22" conventional tube, and when the time came, we kinda were looking at the price diff between a 40 and this thing when the light bulb went on. What's the point? Big. So we slammed it as the last TV we will buy untill they come out with the 3-D Holographic projection units LOL!!!!

The HD and really high detail of that Nat Geo special was really nice.
It's been years since I have been to the PNW, and almost forgot the texture and the Fern cover, that makes it so different than our own Hardwood forrests. Too cool!

Stay safe!
Dingeryote

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

it as the last TV we will buy untill they come out with the 3-D Holographic projection units LOL!!!!

Same here, every time she here me say i want a bigger screen, Diane will tell me "Not for ten more years"

It's been years since I have been to the PNW, and almost forgot the texture and the Fern cover, that makes it so different than our own Hardwood forests. Too cool!

I've not been out there since the TreeHouse project with Jerry B.

All my pics are too big, and I don't have resizing softwear on this computer.

The micro-ecologies of those big trees is so cool, it's just like crawling into a giants planterbox.

 

[oldirty]

one day i too will have climbed the mighty redwood.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I refer to my time out there as a once in a lifetime experiance, though i hope to disprove that.

 

[Veteran]

If you want to see some old growth and no crowds check the Smith River parks. Stout Grove

 

[M.D. Vaden]

If you want to see some old growth and no crowds check the Smith River parks. Stout Grove

That's what I've been using lately for my SIG PIC. Here's a photo of a couple next to Stout Tree. They were in the next campsite last summer.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I wonder how the roots are holding up with the cowpath ringing the base.

 

[M.D. Vaden]

I wonder how the roots are holding up with the cowpath ringing the base.

It has a couple of advantages considering the path. One is that its a long ways from San Francisco and sees a fraction of the visitors that go to Muir Woods down south. The other, is that Stout Grove does not get much rain in the summer months when more people visit.

I'm a bit surprised that the worn area is so small considering that its a destination redwood.