Favourite trees?

[Burrapeg]

I was wondering about various memorable trees I have seen or climbed and thinking other guys must have some favourites too. One that has always been my absolute top hole memory was one of the first large trees I ever climbed as a young man. And I mean LARGE. I was in school in London in the early Seventies and walking along the Thames one day upriver from town. I was passing Richmond Great Park, which I think was some sort of old royal preserve. I could see a giant oak tree from the path and could not resist it. I have never seen an oak this big before or since. The limbs came out from the tree and then back to the ground, they were so big. You could just scramble up onto a limb where they touched the ground, then walk right up it to the giant tree itself. I spent the whole rest of the day in that tree. Another cool thing was it was about knee deep underneath with leaves that had fallen and this was all alive with field mice. I did not have a camera with me that day so no picts, but maybe any UK members on here know the tree? It must have been many hundreds of years old. I could see other big oaks in the park from this tree when I was up it, but this one seemed to dwarf the others. - Stew

 

[WaitakKauri]

Enjoyed your recount. Oaks, London Planes, Douglas Fir are my current favs.

Will be climbing some young redwoods and eucalyptus soon now that I have a big shot.

Our big Oaks aren't that old here, but they are very nice. There's one local to me that comes to the ground. We used it at last years national TCC for the speed climb - pretty fun and different.

 

[GregManning]

This was probably not the intent of the post, but my new favorite is a Dawn Redwood.

Two (2) years ago I bought an 8'3" tree from a local nursery, which I brought home totally inside my car,
and planted in the front yard. (Northeast Ohio)

It is now 19'5" tall. (that's 5'7" of growth per year ! ! !)

The literature says this is a fast growing tree, but that seems ridiculous !
Beautiful "soft" looking tree !