Comments on: Go Climb a Tree http://nwpassage.ca/2007/05/go-climb-a-tree/ The long way around Wed, 23 Mar 2011 04:10:33 +0000 hourly 1 By: fred http://nwpassage.ca/2007/05/go-climb-a-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-20296 fred Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:09:22 +0000 http://nwpassage.ca/?p=174#comment-20296 This is certainly the oldest White Pine around here, and in 2000, when we cleared up the limbs from the 1998 ice-storm (which produced all the stubs you climbed on) we found a branch, still present, 15cm from the ground level, showing that this was an open-grown tree that hadn't been grazed around. We've got photos of the scene at the top of this article from late winter 1998, which look much more similar to photos of a World War I battleground than yours does -- but one can still be astonished by remembering the amount of ice which was necessary to snap off all the limbs that are stubs in your photos. This is certainly the oldest White Pine around here, and in 2000, when we cleared up the limbs from the 1998 ice-storm (which produced all the stubs you climbed on) we found a branch, still present, 15cm from the ground level, showing that this was an open-grown tree that hadn’t been grazed around.

We’ve got photos of the scene at the top of this article from late winter 1998, which look much more similar to photos of a World War I battleground than yours does — but one can still be astonished by remembering the amount of ice which was necessary to snap off all the limbs that are stubs in your photos.

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