It’s now been over three years since the fire, and the smaller trees are starting to fall down when it’s windy. Andy encountered them in four places on the way home yesterday. In the first three spots he cut them enough so he could drive around them.
Trees at First Spot — Before
Trees at First Spot — After
Trees at Second Spot — Before
Trees at Second Spot — After
Trees at Third Spot — Before
At Third Spot — After
But when he came to the fourth place, he had the option of coming back on another road, so he took it. It was time to come home.
Trees at the Fourth Spot
Needless to say, he expects to do more sawing today.
October 13, 2014
It looks like he has lots of sawing ahead in the coming months (years?).
Yes. I’m afraid so.
No wonder the hospital people say that he is very fit!
Yes!
Ah Gee Whiz! And it all happened when he was up at the top.
That was the surprising thing. He may get stuck up there if a big tree falls late in the day. And he can’t phone to tell me he’s safe in the house because we have no cell phone reception. 🙁
I suppose the ground depth has been so affected that the tree can’t find enough nutrients or traction to keep living…having little rain as well to revive.
The trees burned in a forest fire. That’s why they’re dead.
We had a forest fire near our house 11 yrs. ago. When hiking I heard trees falling even without wind.
OOps that fire was in 2000, 14 years ago.
There was a huge fire near us about 15 years ago, and the land (which is public) still hasn’t re-opened for hiking due to worries about falling trees (although I think that it might just be an excuse to keep us all out of there).
It sounds like driving home might take a long time some days. Sorry about those trees…
They closed the national forest to hikers for quite a while because of the danger of falling trees. But it was at most a year or so, not 15 years!