Dos Años - Fallen Redwood Giant

Redwood National and State Parks

Continued from: Largest Coast Redwoods

Wish we found and photographed this redwood a couple years earlier, because it apparently stood growing just two years before ... Dos Años. So that's what we call it. My friend from Germany shows size and scale. A second photo below shows some extra breakage with Chris Atkins. The trunk had diameter comparable to other titans like Arco Giant. This one is in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park

Fallen titans like this are as rare to find, more so than the living ones. When we found Dos Años the amount of dried foliage remaining on twigs and the living foliage on some parts led me to estimate a standing, living redwood two years (maybe 18 months) earlier. That estimate stems from my knowledge of evergreens plus watching survival of foliage from huge sections storms broke off El Viejo del Norte, Godwood Creek Giant and other coast redwoods.

This and some other fallen logs are not easy to reach. But if you want to see a couple to photograph, Simpson Reed Trail in Jedediah Smith park has one next to the trail. And there are several near Avenue of the Giants like Dyerville Giant

Dos Anos Fallen Coast Redwoods Giant in Redwood National and State Parks

Dos Anos Fallen Coast Redwood in Jedediah Smith Park