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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 23, 2017 - 08:03am PT
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hooblie
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from out where the anecdotes roam
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Oct 24, 2017 - 07:15pm PT
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guido
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Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Oct 24, 2017 - 08:42pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 27, 2017 - 09:41am PT
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hooblie
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from out where the anecdotes roam
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Oct 28, 2017 - 03:15am PT
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hooblie
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Nov 10, 2017 - 07:53am PT
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Charlie D.
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Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Nov 20, 2017 - 09:41am PT
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hooblie
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Nov 22, 2017 - 08:17pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 24, 2017 - 05:06am PT
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Same tree, lower down.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 24, 2017 - 05:42am PT
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Dingus, the old oak tree you found recalls one I saw in Jerseydale, Mariposa County. It overlooks the Merced's South Fork upstream from Hites Cove.
I cannot say if it is bigger, but it's in the same league. There are a number of NA grinding holes located in the granite nearby. A creek runs through the area, draining the meadow in Jerseydale where the old Double Eagle 9-hole golf course was located; now abandoned, the clubhouse still stands as a monument to folly and disrespect for nature.
No pics and the last time I viewed the tree and its cousins was almost 20 years ago.
This also jogged my memory about the famous Hooker Oak which stood in Chico, named for Sir Joseph Hooker, the English scientist. It was said to be the largest in the world by Sir Joseph and the tradition was carried on until it fell (1977).
Personnel at both Cal Oak and University of California Berkeley Forestry Lab became intrigued with the lumber. The wood turned out to be as remarkable as was the tree. In order to support its immense crown, the tree grew an abnormal portion of support wood on the upper side of its limbs and stems. This type wood is known as "tension wood" and helped provide the tree with an unbelievable high density: .88 specific gravity, roughly 50% heavier than surrounding oaks. This together with other special characteristics, provided the wood with its unique grain and character, and the tree, apparently with its longevity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooker_Oak
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justthemaid
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Jim Henson's Basement
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Nov 24, 2017 - 06:06am PT
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Nice. Some. Cool old oaks.
One tree I miss from living down south.
That factoid about the "tension wood" is interesting. I've befriended a tree geneticist. He's pretty interesting to talk to. Some of these adaptions are likely genetic and may give one tree a leg up when it come to outliving their neighbors by a few centuries(or millennia in the case of the Bristlecones)
Speaking of Bristlecones ... all I got on the I pad of course
Patriarch Grove
This tree here is so old the original trunk has been completely blasted away by wind-blown ice and the rock has eroded away under the roots. Trees like this cannot be dated since the original pith is long gone. Tree ring data is worthless on a tree like this.
It grows so slowly it only throws down one cell thickness a year... if it even bothers to wake up for the summer.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 24, 2017 - 09:04am PT
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Live oak in Da Hood...
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hooblie
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from out where the anecdotes roam
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Nov 24, 2017 - 06:23pm PT
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several nice images of surface murk today dingus. me & my nostrilswell, we miss that stuff. no dewey peach fuzz around here lately
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Nov 29, 2017 - 06:20pm PT
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Nov 29, 2017 - 07:04pm PT
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hooblie
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from out where the anecdotes roam
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Dec 11, 2017 - 05:48am PT
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The oldest apple tree in Washington. That's what the arborist who cares for it says.
Makes sense, because it's growing next to the oldest residential building still standing in WA.
Ferry House, 1860, Whidbey Island.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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Jan 13, 2018 - 12:47pm PT
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The Torrey Pine is one of the rarest pine trees in the world. A few wild groves exist in Northern, Coastal San Diego and a varient grows on Santa Rosa Island. These populations are tiny vestiges of larger forests thriving during the last ice age. The tree produces a pine nut that the coastal Kumeyaay Indians enjoyed. They are a medium to large pine tree that gets quite massive when irrigated (up to 140 feet).
If you visit San Diego, don't miss Torrey Pines State Park!
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