First, please pardon us for accidentally putting the camera on a crummy setting and taking grainy pictures. It made us madder than wet hens, too. Now, then:
At the Trees of Mystery, you can have your picture taken with Paul Bunyon and Babe the Blue Ox, walk beneath some of the world's biggest trees, and take a gondola ride through the treetops on the Skytrail. We endorse it enthusiastically.
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There are 12 living trees on this Family Tree, all with one trunk.
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The Lightning Tree
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Lots of people are married each year in front of the Cathedral Tree. Almost 1000 years ago, a huge tree stood in the middle of the formation, and instead of dying when it fell, the roots sprouted and these nine trees grew together in a circle around the original stump.
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This is the Brotherhood Tree, and it's one of the largest living things in the whole world, even though it once lost 74 feet of it's top in a terrible storm.
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One whole section of the trail was full of things carved with chainsaws. This snake is only slightly smaller than the one that invaded our campsite on the Upper Missouri.
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The logger is pooped, but my Jan Michael is NOT!
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We'll take one of these models on our next canoe enterprise :)