from a week and a half stint falling trees for forestry surveying lines in the charlottes, and fuck, it feels good to be back.
i very much like trees, and would rather see one standing than being cut down, but i'd rather see one being cut down than hugged. wicked ol ganja tree is the bestest tree on earth
haha you're only saying that because you've never seen a six foot spruce go down. its awesome. the whole forest shakes.
okay....it must be really thick....or whatever cause six feet is short for a tree that makes a forest shudder aint it? i almost typed shorest fudder
The Charlottes? They're off the northern coast of BC. Two main towns of about 2000 people each (tops), a couple smaller ones of a couple hundred. They have a lot of old growth forest, coastal trees (mostly spruces and yellow cedar/cypress, some hemlock and alders), fairly flat. Parts of the trip were rad. We flew in on an old Beaver one plane, which was pretty sweet. I took some pictures on my bosses camera, I'll upload them when I get a chance. Six-foot spruce is probably sixty or seventy feet high. The six-feet means the diameter.
Cool.I've been to Vancouver Island in 1970 trippin' across Canada to Montreal--but always had the Charlottes in mind--is flying the only way or are there boats that go over?It always seemed to be such(in my mind) an out of the way place that's never mentioned anywhere.---------thanks--------
There is a ferry as well, but I haven't really been on it since I was five. The only reason I can think of to take it is that you need to bring a vehicle across. Otherwise, the flight is relatively cheap (I think it was about $250 Cdn) and extremely scenic.
my parents have a spruce in their back yard that is at least 5 or 6 feet in diameter, and it can't be more than 12 feet tall. is the six foot diameter just the trunk? i didn't think they got that thick. or do they just grow up and not out after a certain point?
yeah, mang. by bc forestry standards, its the measurement of the trunk at 1.3 metres high from the highest point of the ground. the biggest sitka spruce in BC took about 8 or 9 people to wrap their arms around it. and that might be an underexaggeration. gimme a minute to find a pic of it i have on my computer.
k, here are some pics of the biggest sitka spruce in bc. its outside of kitimat, and its dead now (got hit by lightening).
