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[Diane at Santa Barbara Hikes dot com]

On Jun 17, 2010, at 8:30 AM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:

> When I was a kid growing up in far NorCal, it was called "snow  
> load"...
> Very much as Radar described, but it was usually the combination of  
> heavy wet
> snow hanging on the tall evergreens, a drop in temperature after  
> the storm had
> cleared, then followed by relatively strong winds...
> The trees start swaying back & forth in the wind and with the  
> weight of the snow
> load up high in the trees, they snap off when the combo sway/weight  
> is too much...


I wondered what happened to all the trees when I walked through acres  
of dead trees all broken off in the middle. I thought they looked  
burned and wondered how they all broke in the middle. Are they not  
burned and breaking them off at the middle is what kills them? Or did  
they suffer both fates and burn, too? They looked white with bark  
that looked blackened. I can't remember if I ever walked through live  
trees broken in the middle or dead ones that didn't also look burned.


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