{"id":7644,"date":"2021-02-23T12:02:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T17:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=7644"},"modified":"2021-02-23T12:03:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T17:03:56","slug":"episode-260-yukon-diary-ancient-dead-forest-still-standing-watching-watching-watcing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=7644","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 260 YUKON DIARY ANCIENT DEAD FOREST STILL STANDING…WATCHING, WATCHING, WATCING."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Note: Some of you did not get my Episode on Bunmahon, Ireland\u2026covered  in sea foam mysteriouslyl<\/div>\n
The video and pictures were just too large for your computers. No matter. Not a big deal.  I will not <\/div>\n
send videos again\u2026<\/div>\n

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EPISODE  260          YUKON DIARY:    ANCIENT DEAD FOREST STILL STANDING\u2026.WATCHING, WATCHING, WATCHING<\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
Feb. 2021<\/div>\n

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We were working our way up the side of a Yukon \u201cHill\u201d  which back east in Ontario we would call a mountain.  <\/div>\n
It was quite verdant until we reached the crest and looked down the other side.  There before us was a<\/div>\n
ghost forest.  Hundreds  of trees that had been killed in A forest fire long ago.  Then decades of wind, rain, ice pellets,<\/div>\n
snow had scoured the dead  trees into wonderful shapes.  Frightening really.  Like entering a graveyard at the<\/div>\n
end of time.  <\/div>\n

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So I rescued two of the trees and carried them back to our Peso Silver camp much to the amusement <\/div>\n
of the crew there.   With the help of a buck saw and Bill Scott I reduced the size of the pieces and later<\/div>\n
shipped them back to Toronto using White Pass trucking.  My expense.<\/div>\n

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I still have those tree trunks.   One has the shape of A duck with one wing partially extended.<\/div>\n

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The other seems like an abstract kind of thing that Henry Moore  would do.  The scouring sanded away<\/div>\n
most of the charcoal residue from the burn.  But not all.  The result can be quite chilling.  Just imagine <\/div>\n
coming to the mountain crest and suddenly seeing hundreds of these eroded trees standing vertically<\/div>\n
like a ghost army\u2026watching \u2026watching\u2026watching.<\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
Feb. 2021<\/div>\n

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Note: Some of you did not get my Episode on Bunmahon, Ireland\u2026covered  in sea foam mysteriouslyl The video and pictures were just too large for your computers. No matter. Not a big deal.  I will not  send videos again\u2026 EPISODE  260          YUKON DIARY:    ANCIENT DEAD FOREST STILL STANDING\u2026.WATCHING, WATCHING, WATCHING […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}