Worlds Tallest Tree

[gf beranek]

It took hiking our feet off again, but Terri and I finally found it. Last picture in the bunch. It's really not such a great looking tree. Especially when you're walking past so many other larger and more beautiful looking redwoods.

Seriously I think there's way too much emphasis put on the tallest trees. Their way over-rated. What's a few feet difference in height? Big F'n Deal. They can have all the tall trees in the world. Just give me biggest and baddest ones and I'll be happy.

 

[SkwerI]

That's cool that you found it. How can you tell the height though? Even at the campgrounds, I could hardly see the tops of the trees, never mind guess the heights or compare one to another. It's like standing at one end of a football field and trying to estimate where the opposing goal line should be.

 

[pantheraba]

Those two trunks at right angles to each other are remarkable...good persistence. How did you know when you found it? Is it marked somehow?

 

[rangerdanger]

That's awesome!!!

 

[gf beranek]

I keyed it out by using a number of photos posted on the internet,, and of all things,, by people trying to keep it a secret.

They can have it as far as I'm concerned. One thing I can say for sure about the tree is, you got to do a lot of walking to find it.

Really, the hiking was the best part of the whole experience for me. It got me at least 300 more pictures of some real top notch dandy trees to put in my archives. By the time I'm done I should have every tree in Humboldt Redwoods over 12 in diameter cataloged. For what purpose I'm not sure, but it's neat having them all.

 

[MasterBlaster]

That second pic is uber neat-o!

 

[gf beranek]

That second pic of wind falls crossing over each other is somewhat unusual for the fact that the tree on top didn't break. Most of the time they do. The only reason that one didn't break is it was so close to the other. It rocked over the other instead of hitting it.

There's wind falls in the woods that are are crossed over three and four high, but are just huge piles of splinters. It would be cool to find one three high that didn't break.

 

[PCTREE]

Gerri I think its so cool that Terri and you can enjoy an activity such as this, so few folks really appreciate their partners You are a lucky man

 

[gf beranek]

Terri would never stay home if I was out hiking anywhere. She's simply a great companion to have along my side wherever it may be.

Hot, cold, wet, steep, brushy she can handle it. Yeah I'm lucky.

 

[sotc]

Good job Jerry! Does it like an easy ish climb or alotta work? Why are you not impressed?

 

[NeTree]

Maybe ugly, but having climed the world's tallest tree would be a great bragging right.

Hell,
I'm in.

 

[High Scale]

Great pics, the fifth one with the sun on the trunks is lovely.

 

[18 stoner]

Really chuffed you found it Gerry, you may not be too impressed with the look of it, but Im sure it would have annoyed you forever if you never got to see it.

It seems to me that you were intent on finding the tree whatever. How you feel about that tree now doesnt matter, it seems you enjoyed the whole "hunting" experience anyway.

You should be real proud.

 

[klimbinfool]

Gerry how close is it to the river?

 

[darkstar]

Nice Find

 

[Old Monkey]

Now all you have to do is find one taller. Good work Jerry.

 

[gf beranek]

The hunt really is what it's about for me. As far as my feelings go about the tree,, the pics I seen of it before we set out to find it already set my feelings about it.

The title of the tallest tree has been bouncing back and forth between different redwoods for years. And most of the time the tree is only .20/.50 of a foot taller,, and usually much smaller than the neighboring trees around it.

I discovered the tallest tree in Montgomery woods years before it was nominated by another enthusiast. It was given the name "The Mendocino Tree" It's only about 10 foot in diameter, all around it are trees up to 17 foot through. For me those bigger redwoods are much more impressive to look at, take pictures of, and, of course, climb.

The tall ones are not always easy trees to climb because of their slower taper and their limbs usually much smaller and fragile.

One thing about the current title holder is for sure, it didn't take the title by a mere tenth of a foot, it did it by nearly 10 feet. At 378 feet it's going to take some time before anybody finds one that will beat it.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Are you still the top of the food chain when you're out there? And if not, are you armed? Is that allowed?

 

[gf beranek]

Mountain lions, Butch. There was an attack on a couple just a few years ago. The lion took down some poor old guy on the trail and was dragging him off into the brush and the guys wife beat it off him with a stick. The fellow survived, but was pretty tore up.

And carrying arms is a no no.

 

[Mrs.B]

It gets scary sometimes. They always prey on the smallest, weakest, etc., so I never venture too far from Jer. There's only been one time that I got really scared and had to leave. We usually are off trail and tend to go deep in the woods and sometimes I can sense being watched. Gives me the creeps!

 

[Frans]

They always prey on the smallest, weakest, etc., so I never venture too far from Jer.

 

[BlackSmith]

Mrs. B, remember, you don't have to out run the mountain lion, you just have to out run Jerry... lol

 

[MasterBlaster]

I'll never routinely go into an area where I'm NOT the apex predator.

I hope your're packing, Jerry.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Does pepper spray work on a mountain lion, if you had time to observe it close? The closest I've come was the tracks outside of my cabin in Northern California. One came right up to the back door.

 

[SkwerI]

Jay, your comment reminds me of this sign-