[JoeProBono]

At least 1,500 years old, this 300-foot giant in California's Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park has the most complex crown ever mapped. (Michael Nichols/National Geographic)

VIDEO

[Jemian]

Truly awe-inspiring.

[SolidWood]

Majestic.

[Daffynition]

Awe inspiring! The video of the technique of getting photo is a must see.

[Vendome]

I am in the Bay Area and from the Santa Cruz Mountains. We have the biggest trees on the planet and I have always been amazed at God's handiwork.

Nothing like looking up at the Redwoods and thinking: Geeze how long have these things been here? Then taking in all the scents and sheer beauty in things like forest ferns.

Love it!

I could have done it better but I am not God and not as creative. Hence, I am not the creator.

I give thanks to God every time I go for a hike, go to the ocean or go snowboarding for the beauty he has provided.

There is strength, a quiet peace and tranquility when I am in nature.

I love it and give thanks to God for such beauty.

Let us give thanks, to God, for giving us such a beautiful world.

[FES0844]

“Heaven & earth are filled with your glory.”

[WVKayaker]

I need a bigger monitor. MUCH bigger! Awesome project!

[Focault's Pendulum]

[Riley]

I was born in Mill Valley, CA. Later in my youth, I moved up to the North Coast. I remember being taken to Stout Grove in Jedediah Smith State Park in Hiouchi then. The adults were ohhing and ahhing over the massive Stout Tree.

I remember having to feign being impressed; huge Redwood trees had always been a part of my life, and were among my earliest memories. I love the Redwood forest- and I miss it terribly sometimes- but it wasn’t a novelty to me at the time.

If I had the money, I’d retire right now and buy my childhood home in Mill Valley back- despite the place being full of leftist statist types.

[snarks_when_bored]

Biggest, Tallest Tree Photo Ever

Logger porn alert...

[Condor51]

National Geographic sent Nichols to spend an entire year in California's redwood forest. His mission was to capture the majesty of some of the tallest trees on Earth, some of which date back before Christ.

I had to check but 'Christ' is actually in NPR.

(someone's prolly gonna get fired)
~not sarcasm~

[Uncle Miltie]

I like trees. They keep the dirt on the hill rather than on the steelhead spawning beds.

[Dinah Lord]

WOWSER!

[martin_fierro]

Across the street from Casa Fierro. That's like the upper half of the tree.

[PeterPrinciple]

There's no capturing the awe one feels before these monoliths that measure, in some cases, upward of 300 feet.

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I remember from my botany class that we still didn't understand the mechanism for pumping the water that high.

[potlatch]

Wow, come look at this tree. The tiny red dots are men, lol.

[RGSpincich]

I see decks.