Places: CA-Muir Snag

 

Muir Snag-___' (Hume Lake) (lat, long)
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Description : Trips : References : Pictures 


Description:
Muir Snag is down the 13S55 road, around 6400' elevation. 

 From Wikipedia: The Muir Snag is one of the largest and tallest standing dead trees in the world. It is believed to be over 3,200 years old when it died. It has a maximum base diameter of 35.9 feet (10.9 m). The tree is still standing but only at 140 feet (43 m) tall. Before it died, its perimeter could have been as much as 110 feet (34 m). The tree is named for naturalist John Muir who described the tree as "the largest I measured" in a report for Charles S. Sargent, the Harvard botanist.

From  Proceedings of the Symposium on Giant Sequoias: Their Place in the Ecosystem and Society: The Muir Snag, which died before the logging era, is the oldest known sequoia. It was dated by Wendell Flint to be about 3,500 years. (Flint 1992, who determined approximate age from a partial ring count). The Muir Snag is also the remains of what might have been the largest sequoia ever. (Flint 1987) "D-21," the oldest-lived sequoia dated by a full ring count, achieved an age of 3,232 years in Converse Basin Grove before it was logged (dated by A.E. Douglas). 

Trips:

• November 5, 2025 - Steven, Sherri and Gary go hunting for the Muir Snag, but down the wrong road. We went down road 13S50.

References:

• Wikipedia under Converse Basin
•  Sierra Club article called  Reflections on a Redwood Snag by Ron Limbaugh 
•  Calisphere picture of when it was living
•  Proceedings of the Symposium on Giant Sequoias: Their Place in the Ecosystem and Society, June 23-25, 1992 (pdf) on page 28

Pictures:

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