The Wall
Largest double coast redwood
by Mario Vaden
The redwood (s) below is very similar to Screaming Titans of the Grove of Titans. This redwood formation was found back in 2014 by redwood enthusiast John Montague. Chris Atkins and I found this tree a few months later and shared photos online. Then John got "bent", requesting not to post photos. Oddly, a consequence to him is not just that social media leaked the location, but that discovery got assigned to a fake person. Dozens of people are posting photos now so I'm posting this page to add accuracy and some background
Big tree hunters usually let discoverers choose nicknames. John loosely referred to this as "The Wall" but didn't name it. I'm assuming John is a democrat, and soon after in 2015 / 2016 his Facebook page went hog-wild political. So a few republican big tree enthusiasts started to quietly call this redwood twin TRUMP TOWER. It was also referred to as Samurai. Otherwise, this was not found with LiDAR nor has any connection with Girl Scouts or champion size hemlocks found during hail storms. It was found by John while exploring in Jedediah Smith park and was described as The Wall
Height 318 feet . . . Diameter 24.8 feet ... Volume 44,800 cu. ft.
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As noted, this is a twin redwood like Screaming Titans. The seam of included bark runs almost all the way to the base and the two bole actually part about 50 feet above the ground with an air gap between. Viewed from the opposite side, it's easy to see that there's a small third trunk, but for form it's mostly a twin. If this is compared as if it's one trunk, then it's tied with The President Sequoiadendron for 3rd largest tree in the world. Their volumes are like 300 to 400 cu. ft. apart, a margin so razor-thin that it's basically equal for something so large and irregularly shaped. Personally, I wouldn't go so far as calling this a "fused" redwood. There's no way to tell if there's a layer of included bark between all the way through or whether there's some innosculation of tissue.
I don't post locations to many of these trees. But will note that it's in Jedediah Smith park at the Boy Scout Tree trail side of the park. To see redwoods this big is so much more practical at the Mill Creek boardwalk area through the Grove of Titans.
In the photo above, Thomas Hahn from Germany is at the base to provide a comparison for size. The photo below is to show how obvious the twin trunks are. Whereas Screaming Titans trunks completely part about 35 feet above the ground, these part somewhere around 50 to 60 feet. This is why the Big Kahuna remains the largest single trunk coast redwood discovered in recent history.
