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mweinstone
04-10-2011, 21:19
who here has actually hugged a tree ? i have. simple yes and no. this is a thred to exsplore the ratio of hikers who have wrapped their arms around a tree and hugged it to those who havent. nothing more. unless you wanna talk about why we do this weird thing. thats my real wonder after how many do it.
Lone Wolf
04-10-2011, 21:23
who here has actually hugged a tree ? i have. simple yes and no. this is a thred to exsplore the ratio of hikers who have wrapped their arms around a tree and hugged it to those who havent. nothing more. unless you wanna talk about why we do this weird thing. thats my real wonder after how many do it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G880gxjj9dI
garlic08
04-10-2011, 21:47
There's nothing like the scent of a ponderosa pine on a warm day. I smell vanilla. Some smell cinnamon, or chocolate, or butterscotch. You really need to get up to it and shove your nose right in there, and wrapping your arms around just seems like a normal thing to do.
Never hugged one. I would hug the bunnies and birdies if they'd let me, but they won't.
I thought that was the only way to know how big the biggest trees are. Get a group of kids together and see how many it takes.
People who want to know the exact circumference generally use a flexible steel tape measurer, but most people don't require that degree of accuracy.
Lone Wolf
04-10-2011, 22:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIULIJxVr7A&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G880gxjj9dI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIULIJxVr7A&feature=related
wythekari
04-10-2011, 23:58
http://C:\Users\Wythe Davis\Pictures\2011-01-24\DSC_0045.JPG
wythekari
04-11-2011, 00:07
Flame me for my inability to upload a pic but after all I'm just another dirt loving tree hugger.
wythekari
04-11-2011, 00:11
Who hasn't?
Jelly-Bean
04-11-2011, 00:55
Of Course!
tat44too
04-11-2011, 01:24
<---(guilty)
I hug, place my hands on, bless, extend love to, talk life to, and talk with trees quite regularly. I believe in some sense, don't really know how and can't really explain it, that I am somehow connected with all life on this planet and in this universe, that includes trees- think Avatar. I think about all that trees can teach humans, IF, we will only listen by opening ourselves up to them. NO, I'm not talking about cutting them down, burning them, or counting tree rings. Before you scoff think about it!
One of the most enjoyable aspects of a recent visit to Hawaii was climbing up 60 ft into a LARGE Banyan tree at night with my headlamp on. AWESOME!
LoneRidgeRunner
04-11-2011, 01:48
never hugged a tree..nothin against trees..just never had the urge to hug one
never hugged a tree..nothin against trees..just never had the urge to hug one
If you did it might bring a new appreciation for something other than the human species? Just saying!
Rockhound
04-11-2011, 05:36
Used to be in forrestry management. Made sure to hug each tree right before I cut it down.
mweinstone
04-11-2011, 07:22
I hug, place my hands on, bless, extend love to, talk life to, and talk with trees quite regularly. I believe in some sense, don't really know how and can't really explain it, that I am somehow connected with all life on this planet and in this universe, that includes trees- think Avatar. I think about all that trees can teach humans, IF, we will only listen by opening ourselves up to them. NO, I'm not talking about cutting them down, burning them, or counting tree rings. Before you scoff think about it!
i belive dogwood and i shall get along fameously. heres what i know about trees none of you do unless youve got your dogwoods on,....
trees are us, no its not a gardening store. trees are just like us i mean. their unbending, unmovable and fall in the slightest wind. they cast evil shadows and cover the land so nothing else can grow. yet when trees are tended by their owners, ie: us, they produce fruits. kinda like the bible story.
dont belive me? i know more. trees are different from all other life in the animal plant kingdom just like we are.how? they end up burnning in hellfires alot.
also trees do tricks. wonderful artful shapes and story telling on walls and ceilings the world over. trees have triggered the imaginations of peoples minds more than all the porn ever did. the shadows of trees dancing telling storys are the soul like semisouls they have about them.
trees and us? now that would be a store.
SerenitySeeker
04-11-2011, 07:32
I've hugged...I will hug again
mweinstone
04-11-2011, 07:36
i myself invented the flux capasitor stareing thaughtfully into tree branch shadows dancing. if i hadnt need holywoods money and hadnt sold them a script based on it, i could ride the delorian around and yall would never know. but since the movie, i have to act like im not even a driver. anyway i can tell; you nothing of the future. i got towed after i landed in philly by the parking authority and i cant afford the impoundment lot fee cause i need the money to finnish the stargate.
mweinstone
04-11-2011, 07:39
and i cant finnish the stargate cause they erased my memory with the pen i gave them and then they made mib. who follow me around makeing sure i dont buy any chicken ramman. the flavor packets can be converted into underwater breathing gum. trees taught me so much.
One Half
04-11-2011, 07:44
trees sing. i love the sound of their voices.
mweinstone
04-11-2011, 07:52
appelorchard mountain. scareyest tree gang in the east.they come at you fast and hard. gotta walk thru without thinking of hansel and grettle as hard as you can.
Used to be in forrestry management. Made sure to hug each tree right before I cut it down.
i hug each one with a diameter tape first.
earth first, we will log all the other planets later.
who here has actually hugged a tree ? i have. simple yes and no. this is a thred to exsplore the ratio of hikers who have wrapped their arms around a tree and hugged it to those who havent. nothing more. unless you wanna talk about why we do this weird thing. thats my real wonder after how many do it.
as a former semi-pro mt. bike downhill racer, i once hugged a huge poplar tree as it decelerated me from 35+m.p.h. down to 0 in a nano second.
so as a hiker, it leaves me with little desire to express my feelings in the form of loving physical contact.
Rockhound, be careful. One day one of those trees might fall on you or your house or your car or there will be no more old growth or virgin forest trees left to enjoy and experience if we keep cutting them down. After thru-hiking the AT I was dismayed at just how few old growth and/or virgin forest was left along the ENTIRE 2200 mile length of the AT. As the saying goes, "you don't know what you have until it's gone!"
Skidsteer
04-11-2011, 21:53
i dont buy any chicken ramman. the flavor packets can be converted into underwater breathing gum.
Omg did you watch Marine Boy as a kid?
fredmugs
04-11-2011, 21:59
Does grabbing one for balance while I'm taking a dump count?
sheepdog
04-11-2011, 22:10
Used to be in forrestry management. Made sure to hug each tree right before I cut it down.
tree killer :D
sheepdog
04-11-2011, 22:11
I am a treegan I use nothing with wood or leaf products.
sheepdog
04-11-2011, 22:11
Does grabbing one for balance while I'm taking a dump count?
hahahahahahahha
tjforrester
04-11-2011, 22:17
If you've northbounded the PCT, you've probably hugged a tree. Sometimes belly crawling across that bark is the only safe way over a swollen glacier stream.
sheepdog
04-11-2011, 22:19
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx-C2iVt2aE&feature=related
trees are mean
Rockhound
04-11-2011, 22:25
Rockhound, be careful. One day one of those trees might fall on you or your house or your car or there will be no more old growth or virgin forest trees left to enjoy and experience if we keep cutting them down. After thru-hiking the AT I was dismayed at just how few old growth and/or virgin forest was left along the ENTIRE 2200 mile length of the AT. As the saying goes, "you don't know what you have until it's gone!"
We were not clear cutting. the work we did helped new growth. It was "forestry management" not just a lumber company. Never felled an old growth tree.
Funny story. A bunch of us were in the 100mile wilderness a couple years back and "Lucky" decides to hang his hammock in the middle of the night. A little while later we hear a very loud crash. He picked the wrong tree and came very close to getting squished flat. Surveying the damage the following morning and realizing just how close he came to getting killed, my response was, "That would have made for an awkward breakfast".
I was not always the caring compassionate soul you see before you today.
I hugged one once, on purpose, just to say I did :D.
Now I strangle them with my hammock straps. ;).
88BlueGT
04-11-2011, 23:44
mweinstone, what in the helllllllllllllll do your posts mean ?!?@!?@?!@
Vermont's state nickname is aptly the Green Mountain State. Indeed, there exists mountainside after mountainside of green trees. There are those who would say "look at all the trees." At first, one would think everything with the forests of the Green Mountain State is fine. And, VT does seem to be doing a GREAT job of "forestry management." BUT, forestry management is not the same as forestry preservation. While I don't consider myself a treegan as Sheepdog. I do use wood products and those products do have to come from somewhere. ALL wood products can't be provided from recycling venues either. BUT, virtually ALL those grreen mountainsides are of younger trees, trres no more than 50 yrs old and often about 40 yrs old until they are "reharvested." Virtually ALL the virgin growth forests of not only VT but with almost ALL the eastern states have been cut down. Why? Because the forests are increasingly being viewed as a resource just as oil or gold, to be managed and consumed by humans through what is now labeled as "forestry management." Now, I'm not saying all forestry management is bad. Like I said I use wood products. BUT, when new generations grow up percieving that a forest is healthy just because there exists mountainside after mountainside of numerous strong growing young trees but with trees that are virtually all less than 50 yrs old I THINK SOMETHING HAS BEEN LOST! I don't know about anyone else but I have a different experience a different feeling when I hike through an old growth or virgin forest with trees hundreds of years old!
Old Hiker
04-13-2011, 11:34
Hello. My name is Old Hiker and I'm a nasty, conservative, evil-capitalist tree hugger.
As for "old-growth" or "virgin" forests, anyone else remember the vast chestnut forests through-out the eastern mountains?
mweinstone
04-13-2011, 11:53
Hello. My name is Old Hiker and I'm a nasty, conservative, evil-capitalist tree hugger.
As for "old-growth" or "virgin" forests, anyone else remember the vast chestnut forests through-out the eastern mountains?
okay. heres all the things i absolutly dispise about chestnuts.
they only come around once a year for a short visit.
they demand all your available nut cash.
they insist on being roasted as soon as you let them inside.
they cool off and become fridged as soon as you get their clothes off.
they require so much butter dipping sauce.
they look down their noses at bacon cause they know they can win any contest.
they get you all addickted up , have all their american kin bumped off and move to europe.
nice nuts.
Old Hiker
04-13-2011, 11:59
okay. heres all the things i absolutly dispise about chestnuts.
.................
nice nuts.
Thank you..........,oh. Never mind.
Downunda
04-14-2011, 02:53
Yes!!!!!!!