Thanks for sharing! and I'm an avid fan of Alfred Joyce Kilmer since I was in grade school. I was chosen to recite this lovely poem "TREES" in front on a stage for the whole students and teachers to watch after our flag ceremony. I aldo sung this song in high school ever since and now at 80 still enjoys all the poems of the Poet Joyce Kilmer..
I remember going here when I was around 10 or so. I remember thinking how lush this forest was. ITs completely untampered with and not logged . The trees are huge and majestic. OUt of all the hikes in NC, this one is so unique and I highly reccommend it. Such an enchanted forest.
Just visited this for the first time 3 days ago. I live 28 miles from here "as the crow flies" . Hiking all around the smokies for the 48 years of my life I have seen some very large hemlocks . Chimney tops, alum caves, Mt Leconte, Clingmansdome.. And those have mostly succumbed to the wooly aphid. It was so nice to see these giant poplars
It would have been cool to have lived when the forest was full of Chestnuts and super large trees that are now being set back by newly imported bugs and disease. Oh, to be a 17th century explorer ! Thanks for the comment !
Oh ya, We were lucky enough to hike the five ponds area with the Giant pines and Wanakeena with its Giant trees. Camillus NY has 300yr old Maples we have hiked through. No sure of the names of the groves, but there are some good areas with old growth!
Rick, I just came across this video while doing some research on the old growth forests out there in the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest, and I wanted to just say thanks for sharing this with the internet. I'm a native North Carolinian and I still haven't made my way out to this section of forest yet. Going to change that ASAP though after watching this! Those trees look absolutely MASSIVE for NC. Thanks again for putting this out there!
Nantahala is mine and my wife's favorite vacation spot. Well, anything eastern TN/western NC area. We've done the Dragon a few times, stayed at NOC last year, and will probably be back many more. Just such beautiful area.
Thanks. Good to know others think its great too. Sometimes I wonder if I'm just some old fool who likes to be out in the woods... So I'll keep looking for these places to video. Thanks for the comment !
It gave me goose bumps, you can feel the energy from the trees. Its an incredible life force in the forest with such old creatures. Thanks for the comment !
I get emotional when I consider how we have taken so much from the earth and given so little back. It used to be such a great place to live... but now we have civilized it !! YUCK ! LOL... Thanks for stopping by, good to "see" you !
It is so very cool, and I wonder if the next generation will be able to see it or not? And I think of all the things my great grand parents saw that are not longer Round anymore (passenger pigeons, chestnuts trees, etc)
I was there twenty years with my daughters, who were 9 and 8 at the time. The Hemlock trees were dying. Many of the tree laying on the ground were standing when I was there. The rangers only cut the parts of the trees that block the trails.
Thanks for the comment. They are some impressive trees. And, I imagine it would take a lot of effort to remove any fallen ones, and it is great to see them anyway.
That is a beautiful hike. This area has been on our visit list to do for a few years. Hope to see it sometime soon. Thanks for showing us all the beautiful scenery.
It takes your breath away to be so close to such giants. The lady at the Cherohala visitor center told me most of them have had their tops broken off by wind storms in the last 5 years. I hope that doesn't mean they will rot and be gone in 10. I will be returning there again in a year.
I hate to say it, but moving for a new Job is always such a positive for me. And its the only way I know to clean out all the junk I don't really need !
Such a beautiful hike. Awesome tree's!! Just amazing!! I didn't think we had them big tree's like that on the East Coast.. Thanks' Rick & Akela for taking us along! So enjoyed it!!
I’m glad you do videos about the eastern part of the USA. Many of the TH-camr focus on the west. I have enjoyed your early videos. Your current videos have recaptured that flavor.
Thank You. I try to get out and about and share with everyone my adventures and treasures. And occasionally a trailer repair project that needs to be done. We have many more places to go and things to see. Thanks for the comment.
I agree completely, eastern forestry is just as impressive as a lot of western. Maybe not always in size, but in beauty and diversity, I believe they triumph. Some giant trees out here too. I love exploring eastern old growth.
You should watch before you go to bed, then you can dream of hiking in the forest and listening to the birds and just communing with Nature !! You'd get a nice relaxing sleep !...LOL Thanks for the comment !
Thanks for stopping by. The puppy certainly loves to hike. He bus the heck out me when I'm editing, he is bugging me now to go on on a hike... I guess I better go before it gets too hot.. See you in the next video !!
Unfortunately a good deal of the older Tulip Poplars (latin name Liriodendron tulipifera) are now dying off in Joyce Kilmer. They are aging out. 250-300 years is about the maximum lifespan of those trees and they are reaching or have reached that point and are now declining. Some of the biggest ones (over 20 feet in circumference) are succumbing to old age. If you are interested in seeing these trees you had best go over the next few years.
They have also had some problems with disease as a result of the tops being blown off from Highwinds and ice. It’s too bad. They are magnificent Giants
Yes, they birds down here are very loud ! NY birds are much more high pitched and sing long whistles, while I notice around here they scream, shriek, and squawk much more. But in either case, I love getting woken up to the birds, and listening to their music as I walk through the forests and fields ! Thanks for the comment.
Absolutely beautiful! Thank you for taking me along! I am afraid most of my hiking is done through a windshield now but so miss getting out on the trail. Videos like these make me feel like I'm out there again.
Does anyone remember the Kilmer poem in the Leave It To Beaver episode? Beaver read the poem in school and had to go back to his old house and dig up a tree they left behind. Really cute story.
Ya, just imagine that... ... They probably had no idea trees could be so tall and wide..LOL .. I wonder if Amazon had 2 day delivery back then.,.LOL.. Thanks for stopping by...
Some fallen trees decay back into dirt. Some fallen trees end up as petrified wood. (See RVerTV's recent tour: th-cam.com/video/m8Qc3VFl8ck/w-d-xo.html It's got me wondering what makes the difference in their fate.
I'm sure a lot of it is humidity and Soil organisms. Petrified wood is usually food in dry sandy areas where the minerals from the sand penetrate the wood over time and turn the wood into stone.
@@GoingNoWhereFast ok good lol definitely don’t plan on doing that haha! Word of advice to others, don’t believe what the tags say! Mine said 50-70ft, when I started seeing videos of them reaching 120-150ft I couldn’t help but want to go to the backyard and rip it out
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Thanks for sharing! and I'm an avid fan of Alfred Joyce Kilmer since I was in grade school. I was chosen to recite this lovely poem "TREES" in front on a stage for the whole students and teachers to
watch after our flag ceremony. I aldo sung this song in high school ever since and now at 80 still
enjoys all the poems of the Poet Joyce Kilmer..
Great comment. Yes he was a great poet, a major loss in the war.
I remember going here when I was around 10 or so. I remember thinking how lush this forest was. ITs completely untampered with and not logged . The trees are huge and majestic. OUt of all the hikes in NC, this one is so unique and I highly reccommend it. Such an enchanted forest.
Yes it is, Thanks for the comment. I could not have said it better!
So very beautiful 😊. Nice video.
Its so much better if your there, but it is pretty good on video too if you can't make it soon !! Thanks for your comment. It makes a difference.
Just visited this for the first time 3 days ago. I live 28 miles from here "as the crow flies" .
Hiking all around the smokies for the 48 years of my life I have seen some very large hemlocks . Chimney tops, alum caves, Mt Leconte, Clingmansdome..
And those have mostly succumbed to the wooly aphid. It was so nice to see these giant poplars
It would have been cool to have lived when the forest was full of Chestnuts and super large trees that are now being set back by newly imported bugs and disease. Oh, to be a 17th century explorer ! Thanks for the comment !
Thanks for the video, and channel..... When you were living in NY did you ever visit any old growth forest in the ADK's, i.e., Elder's grove?
Oh ya, We were lucky enough to hike the five ponds area with the Giant pines and Wanakeena with its Giant trees. Camillus NY has 300yr old Maples we have hiked through. No sure of the names of the groves, but there are some good areas with old growth!
Huge trees! Nice forest.
And it smells nice too.. LOL Thanks for the comment !
Rick, I just came across this video while doing some research on the old growth forests out there in the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest, and I wanted to just say thanks for sharing this with the internet. I'm a native North Carolinian and I still haven't made my way out to this section of forest yet. Going to change that ASAP though after watching this! Those trees look absolutely MASSIVE for NC. Thanks again for putting this out there!
Thanks for stopping by and Watching. Hope you enjoy the trip!
Beautiful hike!
Thank you. Its Truly an amazing forest !
Nantahala is mine and my wife's favorite vacation spot. Well, anything eastern TN/western NC area. We've done the Dragon a few times, stayed at NOC last year, and will probably be back many more. Just such beautiful area.
Thanks. Good to know others think its great too. Sometimes I wonder if I'm just some old fool who likes to be out in the woods... So I'll keep looking for these places to video. Thanks for the comment !
BEAUTIFUL Thanks for sharing your great adventures!!!
Thanks for stopping by and leaving the comment !
Enjoyed the video.... The trail was absolutely beautiful and those trees...... how majestic.... :)
It gave me goose bumps, you can feel the energy from the trees. Its an incredible life force in the forest with such old creatures. Thanks for the comment !
Love the mountains - and we can see your awww of them
I get emotional when I consider how we have taken so much from the earth and given so little back. It used to be such a great place to live... but now we have civilized it !! YUCK ! LOL... Thanks for stopping by, good to "see" you !
Too cool, thank you.
It is so very cool, and I wonder if the next generation will be able to see it or not? And I think of all the things my great grand parents saw that are not longer Round anymore (passenger pigeons, chestnuts trees, etc)
I was there twenty years with my daughters, who were 9 and 8 at the time. The Hemlock trees were dying. Many of the tree laying on the ground were standing when I was there. The rangers only cut the parts of the trees that block the trails.
Thanks for the comment. They are some impressive trees. And, I imagine it would take a lot of effort to remove any fallen ones, and it is great to see them anyway.
That is a beautiful hike. This area has been on our visit list to do for a few years. Hope to see it sometime soon. Thanks for showing us all the beautiful scenery.
It takes your breath away to be so close to such giants. The lady at the Cherohala visitor center told me most of them have had their tops broken off by wind storms in the last 5 years. I hope that doesn't mean they will rot and be gone in 10. I will be returning there again in a year.
Thanks for the lovely hike through the magnificent Joyce Kilmer Forest, Rick and Akela
Thanks for coming along.
Beautiful! Losing your job and having to move seems to be working out for the best!
I hate to say it, but moving for a new Job is always such a positive for me. And its the only way I know to clean out all the junk I don't really need !
@@GoingNoWhereFast Next time get ride of the junk before you move. Don't pay to move it!!
Oh, I did, I filled an entire dumpster with junk and sold $800 worth of stuff... Its in a video from 2 years ago.. LOL
Such a beautiful hike. Awesome tree's!! Just amazing!! I didn't think we had them big tree's like that on the East Coast.. Thanks' Rick & Akela for taking us along! So enjoyed it!!
Thanks for coming ! I appreciate the comment !
I’m glad you do videos about the eastern part of the USA. Many of the TH-camr focus on the west. I have enjoyed your early videos. Your current videos have recaptured that flavor.
Thank You. I try to get out and about and share with everyone my adventures and treasures. And occasionally a trailer repair project that needs to be done. We have many more places to go and things to see. Thanks for the comment.
I agree completely, eastern forestry is just as impressive as a lot of western. Maybe not always in size, but in beauty and diversity, I believe they triumph. Some giant trees out here too. I love exploring eastern old growth.
Thanks for the videos, will watch tomorrow. Bed time now.
You should watch before you go to bed, then you can dream of hiking in the forest and listening to the birds and just communing with Nature !! You'd get a nice relaxing sleep !...LOL Thanks for the comment !
Nice hike! Great to see y'all out enjoying nature! Great to see the puppy! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for stopping by. The puppy certainly loves to hike. He bus the heck out me when I'm editing, he is bugging me now to go on on a hike... I guess I better go before it gets too hot.. See you in the next video !!
Unfortunately a good deal of the older Tulip Poplars (latin name Liriodendron tulipifera) are now dying off in Joyce Kilmer. They are aging out. 250-300 years is about the maximum lifespan of those trees and they are reaching or have reached that point and are now declining. Some of the biggest ones (over 20 feet in circumference) are succumbing to old age. If you are interested in seeing these trees you had best go over the next few years.
They have also had some problems with disease as a result of the tops being blown off from Highwinds and ice. It’s too bad. They are magnificent Giants
The birds are making beautiful music in the background while you were talking about God’s country.
Yes, they birds down here are very loud ! NY birds are much more high pitched and sing long whistles, while I notice around here they scream, shriek, and squawk much more. But in either case, I love getting woken up to the birds, and listening to their music as I walk through the forests and fields ! Thanks for the comment.
Absolutely beautiful! Thank you for taking me along! I am afraid most of my hiking is done through a windshield now but so miss getting out on the trail. Videos like these make me feel like I'm out there again.
Well, just play them on a big screen TV and you might just as well be. Glad to hear you enjoy them, and I'm so glad you come along !!
Does anyone remember the Kilmer poem in the Leave It To Beaver episode? Beaver read the poem in school and had to go back to his old house and dig up a tree they left behind. Really cute story.
HA ha ha... That would be a good Episode. I'll have to see if that on TH-cam somewhere !
Those trees are massive! Explorers: "We're going to need a bigger saw!" Thanks for another great video.
Ya, just imagine that... ... They probably had no idea trees could be so tall and wide..LOL .. I wonder if Amazon had 2 day delivery back then.,.LOL.. Thanks for stopping by...
Some fallen trees decay back into dirt. Some fallen trees end up as petrified wood. (See RVerTV's recent tour: th-cam.com/video/m8Qc3VFl8ck/w-d-xo.html
It's got me wondering what makes the difference in their fate.
I'm sure a lot of it is humidity and Soil organisms. Petrified wood is usually food in dry sandy areas where the minerals from the sand penetrate the wood over time and turn the wood into stone.
I think I bought the wrong tree lol
Well maybe, if your going to live 150 years to see it reach maturity!
@@GoingNoWhereFast ok good lol definitely don’t plan on doing that haha! Word of advice to others, don’t believe what the tags say! Mine said 50-70ft, when I started seeing videos of them reaching 120-150ft I couldn’t help but want to go to the backyard and rip it out
@@GoingNoWhereFast hopefully the weather here in Texas isn’t optimal for it reaching those heights lol
@@VHLM10 You never know, with all the changes, you may be the first!