Originally Posted by BC30cal
These two Doug Firs are/were about 4' at the base, not quite. A year after this photo a microburst blew down the straight one on the right. Then last year's fire burned it, but the bent one is still up there and though scorched seems fine. It's a landmark for me to find my way back to the truck...

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Crazy how that works out huh??? By any logic the leverage on the base of the bent trunk would seem to break that trunk way easier than the straight trunk...I guess that microburst may have come from the right and thus the bend actually helped that trunk from breaking? Who knows but that kind of thing is what makes nature so unique...