http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/01/27/stalking-the-wily-spectacles/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:49:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/01/27/stalking-the-wily-spectacles/#comment-6906 Doctor Jabbir Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:11:13 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/wordpress/?p=6#comment-6906 Read your account of bad luck in Big Basin Park. Going cross country in the redwoods is not always a good idea--tough going usually, not like the nice open woods back East. They are not intrinsically unfriendly. But remember our species clearcut this entire valley about 100 years ago and trees have very long memories. Several years ago i was clearing my property with a chainsaw, cutting away small shrub redwoods at the base of the larger ones--a totally safe job. But one of these shrubs was bend over under great tension. I cut it free without noticing and it sprung free like a great redwood whip and whacked me on the back of my left hand. I felt like it broke a thousand bones (even through leather gloves) and hurt like a son-of-a-bitch (as they say). No bones were broken but my tendons were stretched and rearranged in some strange way. Took a long time to heal and hand still looks a bit strange but still functions well. I am wary of redwoods and give them my excess nitrogen whenever i can. Read your account of bad luck in Big Basin Park. Going cross country in the redwoods is not always a good idea–tough going usually, not like the nice open woods back East.
They are not intrinsically unfriendly. But remember our species clearcut this entire valley about 100 years ago and trees have very long memories.
Several years ago i was clearing my property with a chainsaw, cutting away small shrub redwoods at the base of the larger ones–a totally safe job.
But one of these shrubs was bend over under great tension. I cut it free without noticing and it sprung free like a great redwood whip and whacked me on the back of my left hand. I felt like it broke a thousand bones (even through leather gloves) and hurt like a son-of-a-bitch (as they say). No bones were broken but my tendons were stretched and rearranged in some strange way. Took a long time to heal and hand still looks a bit strange but still functions well.
I am wary of redwoods and give them my excess nitrogen whenever i can.

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