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RE: [RC] Headwaters Ride and old growth - David LeBlancBeen there - it's a great place. Once you've been there, you'd never mistake any cut Eastern forest for old-growth. It takes hundreds of years to get a grove of trees that big. What's interesting here (NW) is that you can be riding through a nice forest that hasn't been cut in say 50-70 years, and it's nice, but then you notice the stumps that are 2-3 times the diameter of any of the trees currently standing. Best ride I've ever been on is the Redwood ride - rode past trees bigger in diameter than my horse is long from nose to tail. I'll never forget when 3 of us had been cruising pretty fast all day and got into a grove of old growth with trees maybe 150 feet apart, and the canopy a couple of hundred feet up and nothing but ferns everywhere. We just dropped to a walk and gawked. I wish there was more of it left. -----Original Message----- From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Holland Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 12:17 PM To: 'Truman Prevatt'; 'Barbara McCrary' Cc: rides2far@xxxxxxxx; 'Sisu West Ranch'; 'RIDECAMP' Subject: RE: [RC] Headwaters Ride and old growth Ah, Yes....The Joyce Kilmer Memorial comes to mind which is right down the road from me. 400 year old trees....worth a visit if you're down this way. It's located at the foot of the Cherohala SkyWay...Highway 129..the famous "Tail of the Dragon". http://www.seeamerica.org/byways/html/byways_pages/NCcherohala.html http://www.main.nc.us/graham/hiking/joycekil.html "I think I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a tree".... =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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