{"id":742,"date":"2016-02-01T07:02:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T07:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/?p=742"},"modified":"2022-09-17T05:09:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T05:09:56","slug":"2016-champion-discovery-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/2016\/02\/01\/2016-champion-discovery-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"2016, Champion Discovery Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Years ago,\u00a0Robert Van Pelt wrote in\u00a0\u00a0Forest Giants, that there’s always a bigger one out there<\/strong> somewhere<\/strong>. And sure enough, 2016 chimes-in with another discovery in Redwood National and State Parks, \u00a0January 30th, \u00a03:30 pm. The redwood forest<\/span><\/strong> raised the bar once again\u00a0with a new discovery called\u00a0“Hail Storm”<\/p>\n

You may have seen the\u00a0note on my redwood discovery page<\/a>,\u00a0but I do\u00a0not post stats or photos anymore for new champions,\u00a0but will mention when something is found.<\/p>\n

What \u00a0caught my attention with the new discovery was the excellent condition in relation to the weather \u00a0the past few years that made a lot of people nervous about \u00a0survival of trees. But this discovery is fine. Full crown, no dead tops, nice foliage color. Given a few dry seasons, that’s impressive.<\/p>\n

The redwood shown below in the first photo is not that champion but a lovely grove I passed through hours before finding the new champion. \u00a0This was a favorite spot of the day.<\/p>\n

If you assumed it’s a Sequoia sempervirens, think again.\u00a0 The redwood forest<\/span><\/strong> was mentioned but there’s many genus of trees in the parks. Apparently some rube is misinforming people that Hail Storm is near Jordan Creek. Not even close! Plus a false size ranking for tree similar to Screaming Titans, an obvious double (two trees).\u00a0 Hail Storm has one distinct trunk. And the species is Tsuga heterophylla<\/strong><\/em>. It’s a western hemlock<\/strong> surpassing 200 feet height, discovered with a friend Chad Olson. Best I can tell, Hail Storm has the points to be a CA state champ, but some years ago I quit nominating new finds. Hail Storm is close to tying the national Tsuga champ nominated by Wood & Van Pelt in 1989. Hail Storm has over 500 points. But we’re not going to nominate, so there’s no need to measure and milk every final point.<\/p>\n

The 2nd photo below shows the lower trunk of Hail Storm, found in an opposite section of the park.<\/p>\n

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Tsuga heterophylla over 220 feet tall. Hail Storm, found 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Years ago,\u00a0Robert Van Pelt wrote in\u00a0\u00a0Forest Giants, that there’s always a bigger one out there somewhere. And sure enough, 2016 chimes-in with another discovery in Redwood National and State Parks, \u00a0January 30th, \u00a03:30 pm. The redwood forest raised the bar once again\u00a0with a new discovery called\u00a0“Hail Storm” You may have seen the\u00a0note on my redwood […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1633,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/1633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}