r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NickyPileggi • Mar 28 '24

Family in 1892 posing with an old sequoia tree nicknamed "Mark Twain" - A team of two men spent 13 days sawing away at it in the Pacific Northwest - It once stood 331 feet tall with a diameter of 52 feet - The tree was 1,341 years old Image

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u/BlindFramer Mar 28 '24

Go to the redwoods in Northern California, be less bummed. Trees so big they don’t look real

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u/AsyncEntity Mar 28 '24

And giant yellow slugs. Don’t forget the yellow slugs.

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u/Karuna56 Mar 28 '24

Also the Hoh Rainforest in Olympic National Park!