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Oh don't worry Rick the stabilizer shock usually takes the brunt of any hard blows , that way the rig will just teeter itself off anything you might get high centered on 
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You do feel small when you hike among these giants. But, this one is not named, so it must not be particularly large. The truly big ones are all individually named. For example, earlier that day we passed the 24th largest tree--The Hart Tree.
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Your fired!!!!
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Rick's got a source for stock steering stabilizers cheap
Man's ready!!! 
. How could we forget that!
Way to go dad!!! Something tells me we're just not going to let you live that one down buddy!!!
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So, here's an interesting story about camping under that tree. First, you should know that the Sequoia has a very tiny cone. It's maybe a couple inches long. And the tree with the largest cone in the world, the Sugar Cone, has one that is two or more feet long ...
Both of these trees grow in this forest. Now, a sugar cone pine can grow maybe 250 to 270 feet tall. Can you imagine how much racket a falling two foot pine cone makes, and how long it makes that racket when it has to fall almost the length of a football field? And, all during our hike there were pine cones falling everywhere. It was unreal, especially since we were hypersensitive to strange noises lest we stumble onto a bear.
Anyway, once the sun sets, I don't know why, but all of that noise ceases. So, after taking our bear canister (it stores our food and other smellables) and tossing it out into the woods where a bear, hopefully, would not find it, we settled in for the night. And wow was all of that quiet eerie. The next morning Curtis mentioned to me that he heard a bear that night. He nudged me to wake me up, and that's when the beast stopped snoring. :-)
Both of these trees grow in this forest. Now, a sugar cone pine can grow maybe 250 to 270 feet tall. Can you imagine how much racket a falling two foot pine cone makes, and how long it makes that racket when it has to fall almost the length of a football field? And, all during our hike there were pine cones falling everywhere. It was unreal, especially since we were hypersensitive to strange noises lest we stumble onto a bear.
Anyway, once the sun sets, I don't know why, but all of that noise ceases. So, after taking our bear canister (it stores our food and other smellables) and tossing it out into the woods where a bear, hopefully, would not find it, we settled in for the night. And wow was all of that quiet eerie. The next morning Curtis mentioned to me that he heard a bear that night. He nudged me to wake me up, and that's when the beast stopped snoring. :-)