A few years ago, I was exploring around Redwood National Park with a friend Thomas from Germany. We discovered a huge coast redwood and named it BIGFOOT. This was the beginning of exploration that later involved Chris Atkins, leading to finding new largest coast redwoods. Due to certain unique features, I decided to keep Bigfoot unpublished from my website and albums. But I think other big tree enthusiasts would still enjoy hearing a couple things about the tree.

The chunk of wood shown below is “curly redwood”, the same kind of wood used for the Curly Redwood Lodge motel in Crescent City. This chunk of wood fell from Bigfoot, revealing the unique wood grain inside it’s trunk. It is not caused by stress, but is more of a genetic or growth variation. It’s not rare, but it’s not common either.  If you go to the Curly Redwood Lodge lobby, there is table made from curly redwood that was split and not milled. The grain looks just like the photo below.

When we found Bigfoot, I knew it was huge. And lately, we learned that the trunk volume is over 30,000 cubic feet. Where is ranks compared to other single trunk redwood giants remains a mystery for now. And being a curly redwood makes it very unique. The image below will enlarge some.

Curly Redwood Coast Forest Wood