[pct-l] Bizarre Moment

[bighummel at aol.com]

In the spring of '77 (I know, yawn, another '77 story) in the Desolation Wilderness just after the snow had melted off, we heard several trees fall one night in moderate winds and clear skies and saw several freshly fallen trees over the next day with spring growth on them.? Total saturation of the soil around old rotten roots, maybe make these susceptible to the wind?

Strider



I don't know why this happened, if they hadn't had a 
>big storm in awhile, but all of a sudden, trees just started falling down 
>around us. They made a cracking sound much louder and more startling than 
>the lightning, before they fell.



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