Here I stand, a tiny human, at the root wad of maybe the biggest drift log I've seen, a gargantuan Sitka spruce.
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Here I stand, a tiny human, at the root wad of maybe the biggest drift log I've seen, a gargantuan Sitka spruce. It's been lodged in the sand of First Beach at La Push for several years. The beast undoubtedly came down on high flows one of the rivers of the Olympic rain forests. My sweetie took the pic. #ThickTrunkTuesday #AltText
@GPJohnston And just think, most of the trees in the Northwest used to be this size. It makes me incredibly sad hiking past absolutely massive stumps in the woods.
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@GPJohnston And just think, most of the trees in the Northwest used to be this size. It makes me incredibly sad hiking past absolutely massive stumps in the woods.
@ingalls I think about that too. Glad our forebears created national parks like Olympic to save at least some of the giant forests that once covered the PNW.
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Here I stand, a tiny human, at the root wad of maybe the biggest drift log I've seen, a gargantuan Sitka spruce. It's been lodged in the sand of First Beach at La Push for several years. The beast undoubtedly came down on high flows one of the rivers of the Olympic rain forests. My sweetie took the pic. #ThickTrunkTuesday #AltText
@GPJohnston Really impressive tree and photo....
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Here I stand, a tiny human, at the root wad of maybe the biggest drift log I've seen, a gargantuan Sitka spruce. It's been lodged in the sand of First Beach at La Push for several years. The beast undoubtedly came down on high flows one of the rivers of the Olympic rain forests. My sweetie took the pic. #ThickTrunkTuesday #AltText
@GPJohnston I knew this was the PNW without looking at the text.
What a lovely.
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Here I stand, a tiny human, at the root wad of maybe the biggest drift log I've seen, a gargantuan Sitka spruce. It's been lodged in the sand of First Beach at La Push for several years. The beast undoubtedly came down on high flows one of the rivers of the Olympic rain forests. My sweetie took the pic. #ThickTrunkTuesday #AltText
@GPJohnston it's not a contest but i think you win
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Here I stand, a tiny human, at the root wad of maybe the biggest drift log I've seen, a gargantuan Sitka spruce. It's been lodged in the sand of First Beach at La Push for several years. The beast undoubtedly came down on high flows one of the rivers of the Olympic rain forests. My sweetie took the pic. #ThickTrunkTuesday #AltText
@GPJohnston This has slight "Twin Peaks pilot episode" vibes...
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Here I stand, a tiny human, at the root wad of maybe the biggest drift log I've seen, a gargantuan Sitka spruce. It's been lodged in the sand of First Beach at La Push for several years. The beast undoubtedly came down on high flows one of the rivers of the Olympic rain forests. My sweetie took the pic. #ThickTrunkTuesday #AltText
@GPJohnston I've got a great picture of me and both kids in the root wad of that tree probably ten years ago now
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Here I stand, a tiny human, at the root wad of maybe the biggest drift log I've seen, a gargantuan Sitka spruce. It's been lodged in the sand of First Beach at La Push for several years. The beast undoubtedly came down on high flows one of the rivers of the Olympic rain forests. My sweetie took the pic. #ThickTrunkTuesday #AltText
@GPJohnston We see a lot of potential guitars here...
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@GPJohnston We see a lot of potential guitars here...
@therockfiles I have a guitar with a spruce top!
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@GPJohnston I've got a great picture of me and both kids in the root wad of that tree probably ten years ago now
@sarae It’s impressive. Saw a drift log at Kalaloch South Beach Campground once that was maybe as big, smaller root wad but thicker trunk, as I recall. Quite awhile ago.
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@therockfiles I have a guitar with a spruce top!
@GPJohnston I like spruce top guitars, esp. classical guitars!
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Here I stand, a tiny human, at the root wad of maybe the biggest drift log I've seen, a gargantuan Sitka spruce. It's been lodged in the sand of First Beach at La Push for several years. The beast undoubtedly came down on high flows one of the rivers of the Olympic rain forests. My sweetie took the pic. #ThickTrunkTuesday #AltText
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Here I stand, a tiny human, at the root wad of maybe the biggest drift log I've seen, a gargantuan Sitka spruce. It's been lodged in the sand of First Beach at La Push for several years. The beast undoubtedly came down on high flows one of the rivers of the Olympic rain forests. My sweetie took the pic. #ThickTrunkTuesday #AltText
WOW.
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Here I stand, a tiny human, at the root wad of maybe the biggest drift log I've seen, a gargantuan Sitka spruce. It's been lodged in the sand of First Beach at La Push for several years. The beast undoubtedly came down on high flows one of the rivers of the Olympic rain forests. My sweetie took the pic. #ThickTrunkTuesday #AltText
@GPJohnston Wow! Must have been quite a sight to see that tree moving thru the water!
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Here I stand, a tiny human, at the root wad of maybe the biggest drift log I've seen, a gargantuan Sitka spruce. It's been lodged in the sand of First Beach at La Push for several years. The beast undoubtedly came down on high flows one of the rivers of the Olympic rain forests. My sweetie took the pic. #ThickTrunkTuesday #AltText
@GPJohnston you almost expect some megafauna to come lumbering by
Epic photo
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@GPJohnston Wow! Must have been quite a sight to see that tree moving thru the water!
@RobinApple Had to have been a mighty storm to wash it out to sea and throw it ashore!
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@RobinApple Had to have been a mighty storm to wash it out to sea and throw it ashore!
@GPJohnston Absolutely!
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Here I stand, a tiny human, at the root wad of maybe the biggest drift log I've seen, a gargantuan Sitka spruce. It's been lodged in the sand of First Beach at La Push for several years. The beast undoubtedly came down on high flows one of the rivers of the Olympic rain forests. My sweetie took the pic. #ThickTrunkTuesday #AltText
@GPJohnston Wow!
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Here I stand, a tiny human, at the root wad of maybe the biggest drift log I've seen, a gargantuan Sitka spruce. It's been lodged in the sand of First Beach at La Push for several years. The beast undoubtedly came down on high flows one of the rivers of the Olympic rain forests. My sweetie took the pic. #ThickTrunkTuesday #AltText
@GPJohnston That would be fun to radiocarbon date...
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Here I stand, a tiny human, at the root wad of maybe the biggest drift log I've seen, a gargantuan Sitka spruce. It's been lodged in the sand of First Beach at La Push for several years. The beast undoubtedly came down on high flows one of the rivers of the Olympic rain forests. My sweetie took the pic. #ThickTrunkTuesday #AltText
@GPJohnston
That is amazing. I went to La Push in 2009 (my daughter and my wife both were Twilight fans) and I don't think that was there. In general, the amount of timber that gets washed ashore in the PNW is astounding. I can remember walking along a beach on Vancouver Island decades ago that had literally hundreds of trucks piled on shore—the ones the timber industry couldn't fish out of the river in time. They since all been recovered.
