Canyon Creek Brewer Spruce | Trinity Alps Wilderness
I had heard about this grand tree after a few fuzzy pictures were circulated a few years back when it was first discovered. Last weekend I finally made the trek up Canyon Creek to find it, we were not disappointed.
The spruce hangs from granite high above upper lake—farthest to the right in the picture.
The microclimate fostered around Upper Canyon Creek Lake provides optimal conditions—the Brewer spruces provide the good genetics.
Hanging on granite's edge, Dean Matheson grapples with the size of this beauty—is it REALLY this big?
From the granite above the tree Dean Matheson (left) measures the height with a laser and Radoslaw Glebocki (right) concedes that trees don't get this big in Poland but big trees are one more reason to love northwest California .
wow...even Skylar is impressed.
- Link: more big trees in northwest California
- Brewer Spruce on Conifer Country
- Canyon Creek Hike Description Hike Description
Posted by Michael E. Kauffmann at 9/26/2010 8:01 PM 
Categories: Wilderness:Trinity Alps, Conifers:Picea breweriana
Categories: Wilderness:Trinity Alps, Conifers:Picea breweriana
Wow, what a beauty. Is it up near Kalmia Lake?
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This one is bigger in all regards than the one currently thought to be the record holder in the big trees registry (from Josephine county). It might be nice to get it recognized there. At one time the record holding tree was near the Salmon river on the northern edge of the trinity alps wilderness (much lower elevation), Dale Thornburgh and John Sawyer took Pete Figura and I there in 1994 to measure it. I'm assuming this one is much larger?
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