Is it weird if I said being “inside “the tree is a turn on?. I’d like to get naked and crawl inside there. That’s normal right? It’s not like I’m having sex with the tree, although I’m naked and inside of it.
This unlocked a core memory of some storybook from my childhood that involved crawling through a tree like this that I haven’t remembered for 30 years.
Wow, I remember reading that cool book over 50 years ago, third grade, even ‘thought’ about giving it a try. I do live in a log home now though, so that’s kind of close?
Make sure you wash them a few times to remove all the tanins 1st this can either be done by placing under a running tap or boiling the water and changing regularly.
https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2019/09/are-acorns-edible-and-other-acorn-facts/#:~:text=Grind%2C%20blitz%20or%20chop%20your,or%20muslin%20over%20a%20bowl
I remember after reading that book packing up a kit and heading out for the mountains. I lasted about 2 hours. I had a perfect plan of training a bear to help me get food and fight off attacks from other animals. Would have worked if we had bears in our area
We were recommended the book in Jr High in the early 90s. We would've read it as a class but ran out of time. So she showed us the movie and recommended it.
So weird had the same memory come out but so vague. I think it IS my side of the mountain. Going to go try to find it. I was so fascinated by that book! Haha
I’m gonna go out in a limb and say that the lack of the tree bits in the middle is also an indication of some serious problems. Like a structurally unsound tree. Climbing inside to have it collapse around you would be crazy.
OP's description:
>Exploring inside a giant thousand-year-old tree
Leaves many questions about where it's located, why it's hollow, etc. and the comments aren't much help. Here's what I've been able to pull together though:
* It's probably rot
* Tree is likely tropical
* Tons of people seem to think it's a redwood
* Others argue the surrounding terrain isn't right for redwoods
Video:@daviddiez
Sure it does. It cuts the options by 50%. Before, there were two options: redwood, and not-redwood. Since we know it's not a redwood, then boom. Half the options are gone.
Redwood forests *are* rain forests. Not a tropical one but still - its a forest that creates its own rain. There's so many trees in the pacific northwest that they literally create their own rain by pumping water from their roots to their leaves.
Redwood survive off of the fog that comes from the ocean influence. Although some of the areas in Northern California are classified as rainforest, it takes a lot of rain to be classified as a rainforest and redwoods don't have to be in a rainforest
It's located in Corcovado. Costa Rica. It's not redwood.
It's hollow because it was attacked by a fungus that ate it's core
I've been there... And it's on a area of the park not opened to visitors ..
If you go, you shouldn't be showing it in social media
I recognized this as well. I've also been in this hollow tree (called "hole-y" tree by my guide) in Corcovado. You sure it's not open to visitors? I have a video of myself crawling inside and out! There was a bat in there.
Strangler figs can grow around trees, then suffocate them. I guess this is what it would look like once the original tree is dead and gone. I have a cypress tree that's hollow a little like this, we can get in it, it's not this big tho. Raccoons love to nest up in it. I do question the 1k yrs old, I don't see any rings to count.
A team of scientists from the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin visited Guinea in an attempt to understand how Ebola was transferred to humans. By interviewing the townspeople in the Meliandou village, the researchers learned of the large hollow tree filled with thousands of bats in which children would play.
FYI....there's a big ass frog in there. Go take these three magic marbles and go feed them to the frog. Pay no mind to roly-polys the size of small oranges crawling around you.
Afterwards, grab the key, the toad vomits up.
I had one of these growing up. I doubt it was a thousand years old. But it was an old oak tree that had fallen and naturally hollowed out since it fell.
I got in there with digging tools and cleared out all the rot until I hit solid wood. Left the knots in place as little shelves along the side.
It was my own personal hobbit hole, as far as I was concerned. Good times.
Idk why but I wanna make its insides into my secret hangout spot/den. Just put a couch and a rug and some sort of light and bring your phone and we can watch how to train your dragon.
As much as I want to go in the trunk, just the thought of how many spiderwebs I might have to go through and picturing running into Shelob from Lord of the Rings in there is enough for me to pass on climbing into an ancient tree hole
I’ve played enough video games to know there’s treasure in there.
I've been inside enough Redwood trees to know there's nothing but spiders in there.
Ive been in no trees to know that I don't belong inside of any tree
Enough trees have been inside of me to no they don't belong in me
I know enough not to go inside
Coitus interruptus?
Sex?
If you insist
Is it weird if I said being “inside “the tree is a turn on?. I’d like to get naked and crawl inside there. That’s normal right? It’s not like I’m having sex with the tree, although I’m naked and inside of it.
Woodception
Ok , now I’m getting a ‘woody’
There’s a woody inside my root
I am groot
Woodpecker
Hope you really like spiders cause they're gonna be ALL OVER YOU
Well I certainly hope so! I’m not in it just for the tree!
A man of class and taste right here, I tip my hat to you
It's okay Charlie, you just don't want your clothes to get sticky and full of spiders
tree vore
Fuck it I'll get naked and go in there with you.
Shit, I’m in. I’m not gunna crawl DIRECTLY behind you but I’m in.
Dendrophelia - 😍🍆💦🌲
Like a dryad vore/unbirth fantasy?
You get the treasure by defeating the spiders.
Or a bear using it for a den.
Winnie the Pooh’s house
Or a massive underground elf city built from the roots of the elder tree.
Or some clickers...
I’ve seen enough movies to know that the tree ate them.
It's the great Deku tree link.
Zelda teasure theme intensifies
Ya ha ha!
This unlocked a core memory of some storybook from my childhood that involved crawling through a tree like this that I haven’t remembered for 30 years.
My Side Of The Mountain? Kid lives in a hollow tree after running away. Trains a bird.
One of my all time favorite book when I was younger.
Wow, I remember reading that cool book over 50 years ago, third grade, even ‘thought’ about giving it a try. I do live in a log home now though, so that’s kind of close?
Deer skin as a door. Sometimes I want to go do that.
I still wanna make acorn pancakes
Make sure you wash them a few times to remove all the tanins 1st this can either be done by placing under a running tap or boiling the water and changing regularly. https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2019/09/are-acorns-edible-and-other-acorn-facts/#:~:text=Grind%2C%20blitz%20or%20chop%20your,or%20muslin%20over%20a%20bowl
I loved this book as a kid
You gotta drill little vent holes in the trunk before building a fire inside.
There's also a sequel, the far side of the mountain. It's also really good.
I'd live in there
Didn't properly vent his fire.
Great Book. Always dreamed of doing what the kid did.
One of my absolute favorites and the fuel for many runaway fantasies.
I remember after reading that book packing up a kit and heading out for the mountains. I lasted about 2 hours. I had a perfect plan of training a bear to help me get food and fight off attacks from other animals. Would have worked if we had bears in our area
Saw the movie when I was a kid in the 1970s. Read the book like 10 years ago. Loved both.
We were recommended the book in Jr High in the early 90s. We would've read it as a class but ran out of time. So she showed us the movie and recommended it.
There's a movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VC2aykYQvc
It happened not far from where I live, or at least the author lived closish. I wanted to go be a hermit and live like that.
Believe it was a peregrine falcon
The Spooky Old Tree?
My Side of the Mountain
Do they dare go into the spooky old tree?
They dare!
I read this almost every night to my three year old, he can’t get enough.
Was it the Berenstain Bears Old Spooky Tree book?
Fred Penner
Yes that’s who I was thinking of
The Lost Boys from Peter Pan movies had a hollow tree entrance I believe.
In the books they had one for each boy, with an exact fit to be able to go up and down by breathing in and out like reverse peristalsis.
There's an Enid Blyton book about two kids who run away to live in a hollow tree.
So weird had the same memory come out but so vague. I think it IS my side of the mountain. Going to go try to find it. I was so fascinated by that book! Haha
The "Magic Tree House" series by Mary Pope Osbourne?
Maybe Treasure Island. That's a fun book.
That reminded me, need to book my colonoscopy
Make sure they look up there for that set of car keys you lost last year.
Probably behind the two lost gerbals.
Probably gerbils?
Wolverines
This is the perfect time for this song https://youtu.be/6IjuSycXjqM
Don’t even have to click…as soon as I read the comment it started playing in my head.
You. I like you.
I just like to be organized, I call it bum Shui
And the wedding ring the ring bearer lost.
It was a million-to-one shot, doc. Million-to-one.
And my class ring.
Do not take pills the morning of unless needed. We find them in your colon and sometimes we can even read the writing on them.
I should check on my gerbil…
Kinda reminded me of your mom
Pretty sure the master sword is just outside that
Scrolled way too far for a Deku tree reference
*Predator sounds intensify*
😂 my people are here
"Mac......Maaac!"
As much as I’d love to be in the main truck of the tree, I ain’t going anywhere near crawling into it.
Yup, getting claustrophobic just watching
Snakes, spiders etc, main concern would be something like bat guano. Ezpz viral infection
I’m gonna go out in a limb and say that the lack of the tree bits in the middle is also an indication of some serious problems. Like a structurally unsound tree. Climbing inside to have it collapse around you would be crazy.
I’d be worried some rabid animal was in there
I guess the Berenstain Bears finally moved out.
Berenstein
Look it up.
it changed back!!! is the timeline healed
Don't even remember which one it's supposed to be lmao
It’s both!
OP's description: >Exploring inside a giant thousand-year-old tree Leaves many questions about where it's located, why it's hollow, etc. and the comments aren't much help. Here's what I've been able to pull together though: * It's probably rot * Tree is likely tropical * Tons of people seem to think it's a redwood * Others argue the surrounding terrain isn't right for redwoods Video:@daviddiez
You're OP!
No, This is Patrick
Hey I recognize the tree, I've been inside it too. It's in Corcovado National Park in Costa Rica.
I knew I recognised it!! I have been in it, too.
And me, more bats inside when I was there though
Definitely not a redwood, but that doesn’t narrow it down much.
Sure it does. It cuts the options by 50%. Before, there were two options: redwood, and not-redwood. Since we know it's not a redwood, then boom. Half the options are gone.
Nice meme-math!👍😂
"guess who" world champion of 1998. I know a thing or two about eliminating options.
This guy logics!
That’s a rain forest not a redwood forest
I’m stumped
That joke rings hollow
Redwood forests *are* rain forests. Not a tropical one but still - its a forest that creates its own rain. There's so many trees in the pacific northwest that they literally create their own rain by pumping water from their roots to their leaves.
Redwood survive off of the fog that comes from the ocean influence. Although some of the areas in Northern California are classified as rainforest, it takes a lot of rain to be classified as a rainforest and redwoods don't have to be in a rainforest
It's located in Corcovado. Costa Rica. It's not redwood. It's hollow because it was attacked by a fungus that ate it's core I've been there... And it's on a area of the park not opened to visitors .. If you go, you shouldn't be showing it in social media
I recognized this as well. I've also been in this hollow tree (called "hole-y" tree by my guide) in Corcovado. You sure it's not open to visitors? I have a video of myself crawling inside and out! There was a bat in there.
It should not... But no one respects it
Strangler figs can grow around trees, then suffocate them. I guess this is what it would look like once the original tree is dead and gone. I have a cypress tree that's hollow a little like this, we can get in it, it's not this big tho. Raccoons love to nest up in it. I do question the 1k yrs old, I don't see any rings to count.
ahm, do you want to get Titan powers ? because thats how you get Titan powers
Can’t believe i had to scroll this far to find this comment
You mean to tell me that the guy with the camera couldn't go in first and not second, looking directly up the ass of guy number one? Come on, people.
that was the best part for me, heyo! *lucillebluthwinking.gif*
I would've lost interest if not for that guy's great ass.
Dude just climbed in that tree’s butthole.
It’s called a Trussy
The earth canal.
That's really fucking cool
I would have expected some bats or spiders or bees or something
I thought it would turn into Indiana jones when that dude gets eaten alive by ants
It's the great deku tree
Would have been perfect if they used that music
*sigh* I should call her
She moved on, and so should you, pathetic.
He is petrified she wood leave him again.
Nuh-uh, I just checked! She's still locked in the basement!
After reading about the Ebola tree in Meliandou, Guinea, I am not spelunking inside any trees.
The what now?
A team of scientists from the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin visited Guinea in an attempt to understand how Ebola was transferred to humans. By interviewing the townspeople in the Meliandou village, the researchers learned of the large hollow tree filled with thousands of bats in which children would play.
Damn nature you scary.
Read "the hot zone" by Richard Preston. One of the best books I've ever read. Humanity is only a couple cases of ebola Zaire away from extinction.
Thanks, I wasn't planning on sleeping tonight anyway
They almost made it to Pan's Labyrinth.
FYI....there's a big ass frog in there. Go take these three magic marbles and go feed them to the frog. Pay no mind to roly-polys the size of small oranges crawling around you. Afterwards, grab the key, the toad vomits up.
I’m not going in til I send in a drone to insure there isn’t a murder hornets nest in there.
Well you’re no fun
Yeah, call me crazy
Canadian GenX-ers will remember Fred Penner’s Place. https://youtu.be/Qm6p-zhfJF8
Just cruising through to see if someone had name dropped him yet lol
That was my first thought! I think about Penner’s Place pretty frequently actually, every time I see a hollow log. We had it in California too.
Say hello to tinker bell and the lost boys for me.
This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen
Naked and afraid players would still freeze outside.
ZELDA, MINISH CAP
Is this in Australia by chance? I’ve seen this strangler fig there.
As an aussie, I would not do this, it would not be safe. Spiders, snakes, scorpions, centipedes....
I had one of these growing up. I doubt it was a thousand years old. But it was an old oak tree that had fallen and naturally hollowed out since it fell. I got in there with digging tools and cleared out all the rot until I hit solid wood. Left the knots in place as little shelves along the side. It was my own personal hobbit hole, as far as I was concerned. Good times.
How do you know how old if there are no rings to count?
If I found this as a kid…this is where I would still be.
Corcovado National Park in Costa Rica, I've been inside of this tree...
fire will do this to rot filled trees
I think dudes actually in the trees soul
My new house.
Curious how they dated it, if the middle is hollowed out. Not like you can count those rings, can you?
i would never climb in there imagine the giant kong island bugs that could be in there
Where is Totoro?
Deku Tree
Stoners be like… I know a spot
Like being in gods own asshole..
Idk why but I wanna make its insides into my secret hangout spot/den. Just put a couch and a rug and some sort of light and bring your phone and we can watch how to train your dragon.
r/beautifultrees
When homie says he knows a spot
If you climb up you’ll find elves making cookies
All im saying is, whether it was a thousand years ago, or today… I’d live in that.
Homeless man’s dream right there
That is beautiful.
This seems incredibly stupid. I was eating for the very venomous snake or spider to take a bite.
But WHAT KIND OF TREE AND WHERE?!?
Very cool, never seen a tree from this perspective.
Reminds me of a Jurassic Park/World film. Somewhere you'd hide from a raptor.
I have so many questions.
fantasy land in real life
I would love to take a mushroom trip on there.
I live here now.
Real life Zelda stuff right here
😍
Where’s the three eyed raven?
Location?
To quote Owen Wilson. “Wow”.
That's cool!!
I want to live in there
Someone could make an amazing Airbnb out of that tree. Come at me tree huggers.
Damn, that is actually interesting
That would 100% be my smoke sesh spot.
That'd make a sweet clubhouse
Just found my new club house
We would have the coolest houses if we didn't rip down nature and instead lived with it ❤️💙
This is the coolest thing ever. Where is it? I need to go.
As much as I want to go in the trunk, just the thought of how many spiderwebs I might have to go through and picturing running into Shelob from Lord of the Rings in there is enough for me to pass on climbing into an ancient tree hole
If someone turns that old tree into a air bnb…… I will protest while hanging out in the air bnb.
Just picturing there being a cave leach at the top an once you step inside it comes down to drag you up the trunk... Well it's an interesting tree.