Comments on: Famous sequoia tree falls

By: webpt member login

webpt member login — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 03:28:29 +0000

Would the tree still stand if it didn’t get hollowed out?

By: Edward

Edward — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 00:48:24 +0000

Cotour,
It sounds like that person is in his safe space.

There aren’t many drive-through trees left. It seems that two of them have fallen in the past half century, and one of them, like the Pioneer Cabin Tree, is no longer available to drive through but is available to walk through.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fsbdev3_058751.pdf

When I was a wee little tyke, just old enough to remember the excitement of it, my family drove through the Wawona Tree in Yosemite, probably contributing — along with the hole in it — to its demise a few years later. Sorry about that. At the time, it seemed like fun, although too brief.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 20:51:39 +0000

Localfluff – beat me to it ;)

By: Blair Ivey

Blair Ivey — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 20:30:27 +0000

The first fallen celebrity of 2017.

By: Cotour

Cotour — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 18:45:03 +0000

Yes, but the person that heard it fall is an Obama supporter and could not bear the truth, so in their telling of the story its still standing.

By: LocalFluff

LocalFluff — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 18:34:07 +0000

Did anyone hear it fall?

By: Cotour

Cotour — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 17:49:12 +0000

“Its not clear why the tree fell”

Maybe this had something to do with it:

“The tree was hollowed out in the 1880s to allow tourists to pass through it, ”

They cut a 10′ by 10′ hole in the thing! Duh!