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Snowbrushy
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PostWed Aug 03, 2016 12:46 am 
I have roamed in foreign parts my boys, And many lands have seen, But Columbia is my idol yet Of all lands, she is Queen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parson_Smith_Tree ..

Oh Pilot of the storm who leaves no trace Like thoughts inside a dream Heed the path that led me to that place Yellow desert stream.
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PostWed Aug 10, 2016 8:48 am 
just in case yall didnt know, but columbia was to be the name of the current state of washington...it is good that this tree part has been preserved.

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PostMon Sep 12, 2016 3:57 pm 
The remains of the tree with poem can now be seen at the Winthrop Ranger Station. Further info can be found in 100 Classic Hikes Washington book. Parson Smith Tree - Hidden Lakes

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PostWed Sep 14, 2016 2:24 pm 
A picture of that is on my 1975 Okanogan NF map.

What's especially fun about sock puppets is that you can make each one unique and individual, so that they each have special characters. And they don't have to be human––animals and aliens are great possibilities
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PostWed Sep 14, 2016 9:06 pm 
I see stuff like this here and there...there is a tree in Saguaro National Park that has a message on it made from shell casings pounded into the tree...always makes me wonder how long graffiti has to sit somewhere before it becomes art/history/revered/etc.

If not now, when?
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PostWed Sep 14, 2016 9:40 pm 
There are some great carvings on the large, old Aspen trees in parts of the Colorado/Wyoming/Utah Rockies and other places - from the Basque sheepherders. examples: http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/beauty/aspen/carvings.shtml and http://www.cpr.org/news/story/etchings-aspens-provide-fading-glimpse-colorados-past and http://www.foresthistory.org/publications/fht/fhtspringfall2001/mallea.pdf I saw some of these in the San Juan mtns. of SW Colorado in the early 1970s. Some were pretty pornographic - about what you might expect from a lonely shepherd in the 1930s or 40s, who saw no one all summer, and were a long way from home.

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