The Forest Will Always Be There....

I think the English language should have a unique word just to describe
the immensity, girth, majesty, and noble presence of a redwood tree. Perhaps
those clever people who invented sniglets have such a word.
My stature is 5ft 6in. This should give you some perspective then on how a
relatively normal-size person measures up to your normal-size redwood. The tree
I'm embracing was actually two trees in one. The redwood clones itself by
producing little shoots that grow along side of it. Eventually this smaller
shoot merges into the parent tree.
I think we saw trees that were at best 1200-1500 years old. The real ancient
ones, which are up to 2000+ years old. We didn't see any of the old-timers
because they were secluded away in a very difficult to access area which would
have required forging a river!