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RE: [RC] Headwaters Ride and old growth - David LeBlanc

Been 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"....


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