| Porcupine
Mountains, MI |
James
Smith |
| Feb
26, 2007 14:54 PST |
Yep, I love old mountains. I guess because they remind me of my
former
home in the north Georgia mountains.
A friend sent me a trip report from Sleeping Giant. Impressive
terrain
there, for sure. And another guy sent me some photos he took in
the
Porcupine Mountains with an eye toward showing me the slopes and
gorges.
Of course I immediately saw that he had shot some GIGANTIC pine
trees!
He said there are many such groves in there and hadn't even
meant the
photo to brag on the old trees, but the old peaks.
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| RE:
Porcupine Mountains, MI |
Will
Blozan |
| Feb
26, 2007 15:04 PST |
James,
ENTS did a survey trip to the Porkies several years ago;
unfortunately no
post exists for it. I will be scanning my negatives and slides
soon from
that trip.
The pines are big, but not tall. I can't believe how many fat
white pines
are there- 10-13 feet cbh. Most are fairly short (but not bad
for up
there!), 125-135 feet but have massive trunks. The tallest we
measured was
~147' and the largest single stem a bit over 14' cbh I think.
The state
record (16'+) was a huge twin that had just broken (and died?)
when we saw
it.
It was on this trip that we eastern ENTS first met Paul Jost,
and others
there were Bob Leverett, Lee Frelich, and John Knuerr. I hope I
am not
missing anybody! Jani may have been there.
Will
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