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Jerry Dodrill

climber
Sebastopol, CA
Feb 7, 2009 - 02:23am PT
Nice Ed!

Wine Country Trees:



More Bonsai, in fact, whole forest of them:

Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Feb 7, 2009 - 02:26am PT
you inspire Jerry... thanks!
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 7, 2009 - 02:33am PT
No doubt, you guys rock!!
Jerry Dodrill

climber
Sebastopol, CA
Feb 7, 2009 - 02:42am PT
Uh-oh. The gig's up. Walleye raises the ante. ;-)
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 7, 2009 - 03:52am PT
Sweet, sweet, sweet.
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 7, 2009 - 04:05am PT
Humble offering...


Maybe someday to be a mighty tree like the ones y'all are posting up.






Now back to the good stuff you all are bringin'!
MisterE

Trad climber
One Place or Another
Feb 7, 2009 - 09:15am PT
Dr Suess inspired:


Peter Haan

Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
Feb 7, 2009 - 09:27am PT




MisterE

Trad climber
One Place or Another
Feb 7, 2009 - 09:38am PT
Just one more

survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 7, 2009 - 10:14am PT
Peter,

That is so COOOL!! I love weirdness!

There is a tree at Arlington Nat. Cemetery that grows almost completey around a headstone. I have a picture of it somewhere!
MisterE

Trad climber
One Place or Another
Feb 7, 2009 - 10:34am PT
Time for a story.

My friend Jason was working for the Superfund cleaning up this farm in rural New Jersey. A family had been taking barrels of toxic waste from various manufacturers and burying it on their property - even some nuclear waste. The farm was toxic as hell, and invariably the whole family died from poisoning.

The barrels of waste were rusted and leaking, and there was a particularly large concentration of a particular toxin that was this glowing lime green around an ancient oak near the barn. The tree was sickly looking, had few leaves, but was obviously still alive.

As they excavated the punctured, rusted and leaking barrels, it became apparent to the clean-up crew that this tree had somehow adapted to living off of this waste. Everyone was saddened as they realized the tree was as much a part of the poisonous landscape as the waste surrounding it, and it had to be cut down.

Jason said one person cried out as they cut into the tree, and it started oozing this lime green sap. It was literally feeding off the poison.

He also said that, at that moment, he had a new-found respect for the adaptability of the natural world, and especially that old oak.
cowpoke

climber
Feb 7, 2009 - 11:08am PT

john hansen

climber
Feb 7, 2009 - 01:38pm PT







Indianclimber

Trad climber
Lost Wages
Feb 7, 2009 - 03:04pm PT
Tree doing a handstand Zion

survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 7, 2009 - 05:22pm PT
Walleye, what a beautiful picture.

George Harrison and many others said it. "All things must pass."
Jaybro

Social climber
wuz real!
Feb 7, 2009 - 05:58pm PT

T-wall.
dmalloy

Trad climber
eastside
Feb 7, 2009 - 06:41pm PT
a few more from California's White Mountains...

this here is the tree on this planet with which I have felt the most communion. I believe it is a Limber pine, and this photo does not really do it justice - just a gorgeous, shaggy, ancient being bursting with life


If you are trekking through the Whites and a cold, windy storm moves in, you will find shelter wherever you can. And who knows what sort of scene you will wake up to -


Old bristlecone skeleton that has been watching this view for centuries -


Another tree I love is right about where you rap down on the east side of Daff Dome.

I will make some requests - some of my other favorite trees are the Foxtail pines that grow along the trail from Onion Valley to Charlotte Dome. Gorgeous bark, enormous trunks - and I have no good photos of them. Anyone?

Also, any more photos of the gnarled junipers up above Olmsted Point? Jerry chipped in one, but there are so many amazing trees up there.
MisterE

Trad climber
One Place or Another
Feb 7, 2009 - 06:54pm PT
Here's another one - on the dome above the point:

dmalloy

Trad climber
eastside
Feb 7, 2009 - 06:54pm PT
and now for city trees....these were in the front yard of the previous house where we lived in Bishop - two elms. Jan 2, 2006 - some very un-Bishop-like weather -


and an oak after an ice storm in Durham, NC - I was 4 weeks after ACL reconstruction, the storm hit, the power went out. Temperature dropped down to about 8 degrees and there was no heat in my apartment, so my two cats and I huddled together on the couch with my sleeping bag all night. Somewhat of a terrifying experience, as the entire night was filled with the sounds of branches and trees cracking, breaking and falling to the ground. Many old trees died that night, clearing room for many young trees to find sunlight and grow.


Now I just realized that I have no good photo of the 80-100 year-old juniper in our front yard....I am going to have to fix that soon.

edit - nice score, MisterE.
funny that I have power lines in the top left corner of both of those photos, guess I am too lazy to crop.
MisterE

Trad climber
One Place or Another
Feb 7, 2009 - 07:02pm PT
Thanks! Here's another - I think it lives across from Tenaya Lake

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