Humboldt Redwoods by photosynthesis
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Description
Taken on the Drury-Chaney Loop Trail, right off the Avenue of the Giants in Humboldt Redwoods State Park. An easy, flat 2.4 mile hike through a fairy tale like redwood forest. Like any hike through a redwood forest, there's a risk of neck cramping from constantly looking up in amazement at how tall these trees are...
"The Drury-Chaney Loop and the adjacent Grieg-French-Bell Trail are most notable for the extraordinarily plush layer of redwood sorrel that usually covers the ground under the old-growth redwoods. Fallen logs, leaf litter, pretty much everything is covered with sorrel, creating the impression of a plush, wrinkled green carpet thrown over the forest floor. An occasional fern sticks out of the sorrel. The Drury-Chaney loop isn't quite as striking as the Grieg-French-Bell Trail, but it makes a much better hike since it's a lot longer and better maintained. It also has fewer signs of logging, with only one visible stump.
The trail has been surfaced with gravel to make it wheelchair-accessible, which is a big improvement because the low-lying trail used to get very muddy in the winter. The trail is level, clearly-defined, and easy to follow.
Because it's clearly visible and because it's the first trailhead on the southbound side of the Avenue of the Giants, the trail is fairly popular."

Comments (7)
Great capture and description
Fantastic forest with a beautiful light, great capture!
wonderful walking trail
Wonderful that it is wheelchair friendly!
Wonderful image :)
Wonderful capture my friend. God bless.
Your light here is one of those lights that you get/create every so often, which is almost obliterating but still coats your subject in rich beaming golds, and which is lush and wholly uplifting. It turns some of the far trees into beacons, and brings the yellows into near luminescence. The tilt of the ground and the zig zag trail make a sweet contrast to those trees. I've never seen these trees in person, but I hope to one day before I die. As tara says, it's very hard to give the sense of scale in a photo. A luminous shot.