GIANT Redwoods, the tallest living things on our planet

just WOW…

Excellent photos! I live 2.5 hours from these beautiful trees and have been going since a child. LOVE THEM. Great hiking too.

The redwoods were just featured in National Geographic, too – I definitely want to see them for myself someday!

My time with old growth trees is some of my best, most magical memories! I have a special connection to Redwoods, especially the Western Red Cedar.
Can you imagine the forest that stretched form Northern California to Alaska? What a sight that must have been.

Hard to imagine that much biomass just growing into existence. Gorgeous pix!

Beautiful photos!
(But can’t standing that close/on a tree HURT it? I think I read that somewhere, and I’m pretty sure that’s why a lot of them are roped off.)

Gorgeous! I love all the ground shots looking up.

Wow beautiful shots – the Redwoods are now on my ever expanding must see list!

Some nice photos here…just wanted to mention it’s “Jedidiah,” not “Jebidiah” (#6 & #9). It’s “The Simpsons’” fault…

Sweet, thanks kyme. Perhaps I’m dyslexic and don’t realize it…or, as you say, it’s probably The Simpsons.

Wow, incredible. That last picture especially.

Just saw the forest in Rotorua, NZ. Tall as.

They never cease to be amazing. Sometimes when you live where you’re surrounded by the coastal redwoods you take them for granted. Its been awhile since I really took in what I’m surrounded by. Its time for a hike, thanks for the reminder!

They are gorgeous aren’t they ? I love way it smells in the Redwoods too!

Actually, it’s “Jedediah,” rather than “Jedidiah.”

Jedediah Strong Smith was a very early “mountain man” and fur trapper. A very interesting man, one who blazed many trails into California. He is considered the first non-Native-American to travel overland from the Mississippi and across the Sierra Nevada into California. He was a young scrap of 22 when he made this first foray. When he was 27 he led a party from southern Utah, across Nevada, Arizona, the Mojave Desert and the Cajon Pass to Mission San Gabriel in southern California.

In 1831, Jedediah Smith was at the Cimarron River near Santa Fe, New Mexico looking for a water source to serve his latest trading party, and was ambushed by Indians. When he failed to return from the scouting trip, his group went on to Santa Fe without him, hoping that he might have gone on ahead. Eventually his companions on the trip, finding some of his personal possessions for sale by a Santa Fe merchant, learned that he had been killed by a group of Comanches along the Cimarron River.

That’s one troublesome name, eh?! Thanks for sharing the historical background.

Great selection of redwood photos. I don’t even think NatGeo has a selection this diverse. Well done.

Hey, thanks Sparrow. That’s quite a compliment.

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