Someday I'll get a photo of that tree while it's still standing.

Will be in the redwoods for almost a week, about mid-August 2008.

Am mainly interested in the largest ones that don't have holes cut in them:

Grove of Titans & Atlas Grove: Largest Known Redwoods

I'm particularly interested in photos of one called Fusion Giant, and some video of the groves holding Atlas Tree and Lost Monarch.

Stay tuned.

If you find anything big or unusual off-trail, please chime-in.

We still have a house for sale in southern Oregon, and keeping it in shape will give me an excuse to go down to the redwoods at least once more this October, or so.

If it sells, I'll be glad to drive down to sign papers. To see the redwoods of course.

Later - hope to get down twice per year minimum.

By the way, believe I found the Fusion Giant. If not, then one that easily fits the name, girth and height, with a long fusion line up the trunk.

Cheers,

M. D. Vaden

R. Swetz ...

If I'm reading and tracking my online postings right, I think I found the Fusion Giant, and found it after your reply date above.

I'd prefer not to write where I saw it, on this page here.

Email me - and in the email, note your name and the link to this page so I'll know who I"m responding too. Because my replies are tight-lipped in most cases.

I don't think it's an ordeal for this tree to be known to a few people. But I don't want to leave a permanent record online.

The tree I found - couldn't measure the height - had a long veritical fusion mark going way up the trunk. This was in Redwoods National Park. The diameter was over 23' which is almost exactly right for Fusion Giant.

A park employee at the Crescent City information center said I would never see the tree, when I said I was going to Tall Trees Grove to look for it.

What caught my attention, was that she didn't correct me bringing up a "Fusion Giant" as a second largest redwood. That implies that my guess may be correct.

Maybe she thought I'd be looking in the lowland where many Titans are. But I was looking everywhere, and found the tree several hundred feet up on a steep hillside with no creek near it.

It's in my album #2 and #3. Here's that page again:

http://www.mdvaden.com/grove_of_titans.shtml

I made a change to my albums. The default enlargement for the slideshow in album #2 was quite large. So I made album #3, with decent size, but smaller default enlargement sizes. The album links are on that page.

The tree on the hill was easily big enough to be that tree. If not, it's a titan. Otherwise, I found a second one down in the main grove, with a similar size trunk, a small car size burl on the base, and what could possibly be construed as some trunk fusion up above. It's in the photos too, although it was pretty dark under the tree.

Cheers,

M. D. Vaden of Oregon

Howdy.

Update on redwood talk.

If you were ever curiious about what Hyperion might look like, take another visit to the redwoood page and albums.

Album numbers of earlier replies shifted a bit. But there are captions.

Good day,

Mario Vaden

Hmm...looks familiar, I think my dad took me there when I was an ittie bittie