This post is not woodturning directly, but about trees. I just got back from a two week vacation in Washington State. For an Ohio guy, the huge trees I saw in the various plots of old growth forest were a true wonder. And then I came across a little blurb about a "Spruce Burl Trail" in Olympic National Park. It is a short loop, maybe a quarter mile or so, through a stand of Sitka spruces. Almost every tree had at least one burl on it. Some as big as a small car. Truly amazing. Not far away was a tree on the beach known as "The Tree of Life," another Sitka spruce, where the roots span a gully that eroded from underneath it. Another tree worth a visit.
