The Beach Trail Revisited

My how things change around here. We had another widow maker storm. High winds and trees down everywhere. Remember that brag blog just two entries ago about the beach trail. Well its gone now, the trail not the blog. Right after the J+M log, the trail has become vertical. The rest of the "trail" is just littered with the former canopy of the woods. I will try to do a little before and after here.

The light in there has totaly changed so it will be interesting to see what grows in its place. The root wad is about twenty feet in the air and thirty feet across and supported what looks like three or four trees.

The pecker pole on the bottom is the former hand rail for going up and down the steps. Just under those trees are the beautiful steps that Jonathan lovingly made for our wedding party. You can still see the bottom ones under the big trunk. They are pretty much still in position except that they lead to a fallen down tree instead of a fabulous path.

Since the tree is so big we are not sure we can safely cut through it...and get the root wad to fall back down flat, will take some serious come along work. In the mean time there is still good mushroom picking in the surrounding woods. We have put up five gallons of chantrelles, some shaggy manes, and I made oyster mushroom lasagne with italian deer sausage last night, mmmmmmmmm.