State of Wilderness

Month: July 2012

  • Tales From The Avenue of the Giants: We Do Not See The Albino Tree

    Albino Redwoods are so very rare that only fifty of them are known to be in existence. Six of those are located inside Humboldt Redwoods State Park.  Others have locations kept secret to keep foot traffic down near the trees. I thought I was going to take everyone to see one.  I had the coordinates…

  • Tales From the Avenue of the Giants: Hidden Springs Revealed

    Hidden Springs Revealed The first thing that happened had to do with last night.  Not this current last night, but the last night before this day, this day of odd surprises.  I had made reservations before our trip for last night in the Humboldt Redwoods State Park. I had struggled over which of the two…

  • Tales From The Avenue of the Giants: The Prelude

    After traveling the long and winding Highway 1 off the California Coast, stopping only to eat deli sandwiches in a little overpriced convenience store deluxe in Olema, we realized we were not going to make it all the way to our campsite.  We were going to have to find a place to stop, soon, so…