Growing up with Redwood's. Truely God's country.

[mdavlee]

The deck looks good in front of the Big Tree. Where is that tree in the other picture. I think I seen it on my trip out there but not sure.

 

[benp]

incredable, just bloody incredable.

I 150% agree. I cant imagine.

I was blown away by seeing old growth White and Norway Pine here, which are not even an ant fart compared to the giants out west.

Keep up the awesome pictures!!!!!!!!!!

 

[M.D. Vaden]

The deck looks good in front of the Big Tree. Where is that tree in the other picture. I think I seen it on my trip out there but not sure.

Also at Prairie Creek, like 100 feet set back from a trail. Think the trail may be called Foothill trail.

incredable, just bloody incredable.

It seems like a place that can't be exhausted for hiking and enjoying.

Even when I visit the same areas or trails, different weather or light change the whole experience.

A couple more pics from last week ...

 

[Eccentric]

incredable, just bloody incredable.

I 150% agree. I cant imagine.

I was blown away by seeing old growth White and Norway Pine here, which are not even an ant fart compared to the giants out west.

Keep up the awesome pictures!!!!!!!!!!

You men need to get on a plane and come see these beasts. Let us know if you do, so we can meet you. I've been spoiled, living about 30 minutes from Armstrong Grove. Many large redwoods on private land are even closer than that to me (including a few old growth outlaws that rival the trees in the grove).

 

[leeha]

Some outstanding pic's in this thread.
Truely amazing trees. I'm sure seeing
them in person could be breath taking.

Thanks everyone for sharing.


Lee

 

[carym2a]

I just love my back yard, wish more could see them( Redwoods) I'v said it before, everyone needs to plant one, I have 5 thirty year olds and a 3year old in a 5gal bucket waiting to find a home. Nothing like the big timber to make one just set and feel ... small


Cary

 

[carym2a]

Also at Prairie Creek, like 100 feet set back from a trail. Think the trail may be called Foothill trail.



It seems like a place that can't be exhausted for hiking and enjoying.

Even when I visit the same areas or trails, different weather or light change the whole experience.

A couple more pics from last week ...

Not far from my home, there's a great BBQ place out of Klamath (steel head lodge) that is awsome, right in the middle of the great redwoods, just past the trees of mystery, check out treesofmystery.net good site

 

[mdavlee]

I want to get back out there and go through the areas north of Prairie Creek. That was as far north as we made it from garberville in a day. I wish we would have taken a few more days to see more now.

 

[RandyMac]

I want to get back out there and go through the areas north of Prairie Creek. That was as far north as we made it from garberville in a day. I wish we would have taken a few more days to see more now.

Shoot me a line when you head West again, I'll make sure you see the best of what is left.
Del Norte has the biggest and best, some areas are not to be believed. Humboldt has many good places to visit, hike or drive through.

Part of the fence

 

[carym2a]

Shoot me a line when you head West again, I'll make sure you see the best of what is left.
Del Norte has the biggest and best, some areas are not to be believed. Humboldt has many good places to visit, hike or drive through.

Part of the fence

Randy, You Know it, there it is, and how right you Are:msp_biggrin:

 

[M.D. Vaden]

Not far from my home, there's a great BBQ place out of Klamath (salmon head lodge) that is awsome, right in the middle of the great redwoods, just past the trees of mystery, check out treesofmystery.net good site

Wonder if that's the place I met the owner of, a couple of months ago. I was waiting at the Pem Mey fuel stop and convenience store waiting for 101 to be cleared of fallen trees, and a guy waiting said he owned a lodge or restaurant. Forget the name, but he said he's a guy I called the night before to inquire about something like the level of the river.

So far, the Requa Inn is the only place I've eaten real food at in Klamath. Had burgers at the Country Club across from the Ravenwood, and breakfast at the cafe almost next door to it. Another favorite place to eat, is the Chartroom in Crescent City, outside of which I took this photo. I typically get Fish & Chips there.

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[M.D. Vaden]

Shoot me a line when you head West again, I'll make sure you see the best of what is left.
Del Norte has the biggest and best, some areas are not to be believed. Humboldt has many good places to visit, hike or drive through.

Part of the fence

Let's piece it together - lol

Here's one of like 10 shots I took to make a panoramic photo stitch. I'd guess that this stretch of fence going way off into the distance is maybe just a 1/10 of it.

One more of the elk there last year and the fence. One of those elk walked at me with a warning snort because I was paralleling their movement and it irritated them. So I just backed away and went to my truck. The other group of elk are actually at the short turnaround where the parkway goes under Hy. 101 at the south end of the park.

 

[ausneil 1]

Also at Prairie Creek, like 100 feet set back from a trail. Think the trail may be called Foothill trail.



It seems like a place that can't be exhausted for hiking and enjoying.

Even when I visit the same areas or trails, different weather or light change the whole experience.

A couple more pics from last week ...

simply awsome

 

[imagineero]

I've never had a chance to talk in person to an old school logger that spent their time dropping the big boys, but I'd like to think that more than a few look back with some lament that a couple thousand years of history was clearcut for not much more than railroad ties. You can talk all you like about replanting and all that, but I can't imagine that even in 500 years those sites will be what they were.

It's ironic how we look at the mass devastation happening in places like russia and the PNG, clear cutting of old growth and point out the more sustainable logging methods available now. People in those countries point out perhaps rightfully how Europe and later the US clearcut their own forests to lay the foundation for their own industrial revolution that slighshot their countries to the forefront of the economic world. Kind of a tough call on whether it was worth it or not... it was hard honest work knocking those trees over, but look where its brought us.

Shaun

 

[RandyMac]

Sure enough, a few rail ties were made from our Old Growth, however cities were also built. San Francisco was rebuilt a few times with Redwood and Fir.
I'll admit that early practices were wasteful and destructive, things did improve somewhat with mechanized processes. The period of 25 years between 1950 and 1975, saw more timber hauled to the mills, than the previous 100. If you want a glimpse of modern logging at it's worst, research Redwood Creek. In the days before the National Park boundaries were set and paid for, unrestricted, hell for leather logging occurred. Simply appalling.

 

[carym2a]

I've never had a chance to talk in person to an old school logger that spent their time dropping the big boys, but I'd like to think that more than a few look back with some lament that a couple thousand years of history was clearcut for not much more than railroad ties. You can talk all you like about replanting and all that, but I can't imagine that even in 500 years those sites will be what they were.

It's ironic how we look at the mass devastation happening in places like russia and the PNG, clear cutting of old growth and point out the more sustainable logging methods available now. People in those countries point out perhaps rightfully how Europe and later the US clearcut their own forests to lay the foundation for their own industrial revolution that slighshot their countries to the forefront of the economic world. Kind of a tough call on whether it was worth it or not... it was hard honest work knocking those trees over, but look where its brought us.

Shaun

Let the loggers that cut in Gods own work tell their story,and it wasnt for railroad ties, most came out of the east hardwoods, the Rewoods went in to homes and building these United States, there are still huge plots of land never touched and set aside, so evil man wont cut it all down.

 

[RandyMac]

He created the Earth, then He created Us to use what He left to Us.

 

[imagineero]

I won't argue with you there Randy, if anyone knows their stuff it's you. I just read back over that post of mine and the last sentence was a bit ambiguous. What I should have said was 'Kind of a tough call on whether it was worth it or not... it was hard honest work knocking those trees over, but it's all lead to naught'.

I'd just as rather wind the clock back 100 years and carry on as we were. Almost enough to turn a guy Amish. But then, I hear they only have wine... no beer.

Shaun

 

[RandyMac]

I'd go 300 years back and beer came before whine.

 

[M.D. Vaden]

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Part of the fence

Was curious about what method was used to set all those fence posts.



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