What happens if a tree falls at Shaver Lake?

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What happens if a tree falls at Shaver Lake?

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I think markskor actually saw it fall. I was inside and heard it. (my car was a couple hundred feet away.)

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Darn :eek: , glad no one was hurt Mike.
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Me too! I think some people who were near by had to do some laundry, though!

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The fear of a tree falling on me and keeping me from coming back to my wife has always been slightly in my mind. This picture just increased 1 bar for me.
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I have moved camp multiple times to get away from sketchy looking trees. But right there in a parking lot....who would have known!
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This happened to my grandparent's friends not more than a month ago! Totaled their car as well.
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sparky wrote:I have moved camp multiple times to get away from sketchy looking trees.
I've done the same, I even look for dead trees when deciding where to camp for the night, a settle in accordingly. But it looks like this one was green and apparently healthy. Scary! All the same, its good that no one was hurt.
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Whoa that's pretty scary, especially because it looks to be an ordinary green tree.
sparky wrote:I have moved camp multiple times to get away from sketchy looking trees. But right there in a parking lot....who would have known!
I have certainly done that before. One I remember vividly was a campsite I had set up on the shore of Little Elk Lake in the Marble Mtns (ca 1985). For some reason I didn't notice the dead tree over the camp until the wind picked up and the tree was making all these creaking sounds. I quickly moved the camp. The tree did not come down that evening nor during the trip, but I have avoided sketchy trees when camping ever since then.
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