Grizzly Giant is BIG, needed two shots to capture

Galen Clark standing at the base of the Grizzly Giant tree in the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias, Yosemite, in 1858 or 1859 is at: www.sjvls.org/photoheritage/mariposa/mpd0026a.jpg

The tree is 100 feet around at the base with a diameter of 29 feet (sometimes quotes as 31), and is 209 feet high, although it presently has a snag top and once was much higher. It is the largest tree in Yosemite and is believed to be the 5th largest tree on earth, weighing an astounding 2 million pounds and comprising 30,000 cubic feet of lumber, enough to build some 20 homes. Its lowest limbs are 6 feet across.

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