EJ, Mark and others,

I am technically and electronically challenged, so I could't figure out how to post a photo on this message board. But, if you go to treeclimbercoalition.org and click on TreeTalk Blogs, you'll see my shiny, smilin' face as I perch comfortably on the hump of the "h" tree.

I did it just for the "h" of it.

Have you hugged your trees today,
Wild Bill from Dawsonville
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Bill,
That’s perfect!
Thanks.

Click on the _link_ below for the ”h” tree shot.
www.treeclimbercoalition.org/TreeTalk/article.cfm?articleid=61

Bill,
Cool! That one is genuinely weird. One of the things I love about nature is its ability to surprise.
Thanks much.

Dear Bill,

First of all great story and photo!

You all know that I am not a certified arborist but lets look at another point of view. In viewing the photo it appears to me that we should consider the possibility that this is two trees that have grown together at the vertical intersection.

There are signs of a lot of activity at the intersection and once the crossover grew together the overage would have been damaged enough to fall off.

It is real hard for me to see what looks like a limb rooted instead of the apparent crossover growth. If the trail was to be marked it could have been used a “bent-over” marker. The ones that I have seen and climbed are shaped somewhat the same and as old looking.

So we may never know the real truth but that is the rest of the story.

See you at the top,

Dan House, TreeTramp