The mountain came out a little.
Then it came out a lot.
We drove on to Crescent City and found a campsite in the redwoods.
So secluded we didn’t need to put up any of the window curtains.
It’s a wonderful forest. Some of the trees that remain are big.
Some of the trees that were here before were Really big.
Logging started as early as the 1850s, but the biggest trees were relatively safe. It took an entire crew over a week to fell and process just one tree, so they focused on the more manageable ones. With modern machinery though, the old growth in this area was logged out mostly in the 1940s and 1950s. Some of those big trees were two thousand years old. Some forest has been preserved and we can expect it to return to mostly normal in another thousand years or so.
