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I'm betting he grabbed his saw and is cutting a little firewood.
Kilo and eel planted this tree and nurtured it over the years before they cut the tunnel through it one drunken weekend.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/us/pioneer-cabin-tree-sequoia.html
Giant Sequoia ?Tunnel Tree? in California Is Toppled by storm
MICHAEL BROWN, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
By ERIN McCANN
JANUARY 9, 2017
A giant ancient sequoia with a hollowed-out tunnel that drew thousands of visitors each year in California toppled over on Sunday during heavy rains, according to a nonprofit group.
The Pioneer Cabin tree was ?barely alive,? according to a volunteer at the Calaveras Big Trees State Park, about 90 miles east of Sacramento, and it was not immediately clear what would become of the sequoia.
The base of the tree (there was no immediate information on its height) was carved out in the 1880s, and it became a tourist attraction. Cars, once they became common, were allowed to drive through it, but in recent years, the tunnel was accessible only to hikers on a 1.5-mile loop through the park, according to the United States Forest Service.
?The storm was just too much for it,? the nonprofit group, the Calaveras Big Trees Association, said in a Facebook post that included two photos of the fallen tree.
The
Jim Allday, a park volunteer who took the photos, told SF Gate, a website operated by The San Francisco Chronicle that the tree fell around 2 p.m. on Sunday and ?shattered? as it hit the ground.
Kilo and eel planted this tree and nurtured it over the years before they cut the tunnel through it one drunken weekend.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/us/pioneer-cabin-tree-sequoia.html
Giant Sequoia ?Tunnel Tree? in California Is Toppled by storm
MICHAEL BROWN, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
By ERIN McCANN
JANUARY 9, 2017
A giant ancient sequoia with a hollowed-out tunnel that drew thousands of visitors each year in California toppled over on Sunday during heavy rains, according to a nonprofit group.
The Pioneer Cabin tree was ?barely alive,? according to a volunteer at the Calaveras Big Trees State Park, about 90 miles east of Sacramento, and it was not immediately clear what would become of the sequoia.
The base of the tree (there was no immediate information on its height) was carved out in the 1880s, and it became a tourist attraction. Cars, once they became common, were allowed to drive through it, but in recent years, the tunnel was accessible only to hikers on a 1.5-mile loop through the park, according to the United States Forest Service.
?The storm was just too much for it,? the nonprofit group, the Calaveras Big Trees Association, said in a Facebook post that included two photos of the fallen tree.
The
Jim Allday, a park volunteer who took the photos, told SF Gate, a website operated by The San Francisco Chronicle that the tree fell around 2 p.m. on Sunday and ?shattered? as it hit the ground.
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