High Sierra Topix

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

Mike

Darn , glad no one was hurt Mike.

Me too! I think some people who were near by had to do some laundry, though!

Mike

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.

I have moved camp multiple times to get away from sketchy looking trees. But right there in a parking lot....who would have known!

This happened to my grandparent's friends not more than a month ago! Totaled their car as well.

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.

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.