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Leggs
Sport climber
A true CA girl, who landed in the land of rocks...
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Aug 11, 2012 - 12:39am PT
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bump!
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Aug 11, 2012 - 09:43am PT
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covelocos
Trad climber
Nor Cal
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Aug 11, 2012 - 11:42am PT
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Aug 11, 2012 - 11:52am PT
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The Call Of K2 Lou
climber
Squamish
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Aug 12, 2012 - 06:43pm PT
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I love the gnarly trees, it's just hard to find 'em around here:
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Aug 29, 2012 - 01:12am PT
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Tuolumne Meadows bonsai
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 12, 2012 - 09:18pm PT
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The Jacarandas were goin' off!
How many can you count?
And this one was on fire!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 12, 2012 - 10:23pm PT
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Larry, Moe, Curly.
Weejus H. Crutch, those are sum find Artivax antreebies.
And those lavender treebies are jacarandas? Nobody I asked in June knew that in Simi. Imagine that. They are comme dites, Ubuckeyetous.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 15, 2012 - 02:18am PT
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This is one of my favorite photos ever.
I reminds me of the movie with Alan Hale and Edgar Buchanan and Kirk Douglas, The Big TRees, from 1952. A line I want to share with the tree higging brosisterhood spoken by Patrice Wymore as Daisy:
"You stye on the eye of a flea on a thigh of a nit on on the neck of a gnat."
Going the opposite way from the big tree topic: -1
Going so f*#king far away in one sentence: priceless.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Sep 16, 2012 - 06:25pm PT
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Here's that "favorite tree" I mentioned somewhere upthread, catching the last ray of sunset by our house tonight. It's about a hundred feet tall, perhaps a bit more, but I never tried to reckon its age until just now.
Looked it up ... the growth factor for white pine in a forest averages 5 years per inch of diameter at chest height. This tree is 95 inches around at that height, so
5*95/3.14 = 151
it's something like 151 years old. A seedling when the Civil War broke out, and the forest it looks down upon now was a rocky farmed field.
The largest conifer east of the Mississippi, these critters can live 2, maybe 4 hundred years. Before the white man came to cut them down, some grew 250 feet tall. Seems cool that this one tree has made it so far.
Not far from here is a road called Mast Way, where they cut white pine to build masts for the sailing ships.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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A Dawg's Delight.
A howling-moon...
Aaallll the trees looked big...
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Oct 16, 2012 - 08:45am PT
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Crazy about junipers......
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Oct 16, 2012 - 12:02pm PT
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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Oct 16, 2012 - 01:24pm PT
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a very big tree to have in your back yard. The Ceiba, downtown Sabailto de Coto Brus.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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briham89
Big Wall climber
san jose, ca
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Climbing Galapagos style.
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DM88T
climber
San Juan Bautista, CA
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Dec 26, 2012 - 07:27am PT
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