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Jan 10, An iconic living tree with a tunnel so big that visitors could once drive through it toppled on Sunday during a winter storm. The sequoia, nicknamed the Pioneer Cabin. Jan 10, Historic ‘Tunnel Tree’ Falls in Storm Save the Redwoods League.

Pioneer Cabin Tree. Photo by Wayne Hsieh, Flickr Creative Commons. We lost an iconic ‘tunnel tree’ on Sunday as mother nature took down the over 1,year-old Pioneer Cabin Tree in Calaveras Big Trees State Park.

Zen philosophy aside, when California's Pioneer Cabin sequoia, one of the largest trees in the world, fell over on Sunday, Jan.

This tree, made famous for the car-sized tunnel through its trunk, toppled over during the heavy storms that Reviews: 2. If we apply the thought experiment to the Pioneer Cabin Tree (also known as the Tunnel Tree), then we can safely say that when it toppled on 8 January, it made a sound that reverberated around world. The Tunnel Tree is an old sequoia tree measuring feet tall that has a hole carved in it (see Figure 1).Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. Jan 09, The great tree with its foot diameter was already a popular photo stop even before the tunnel was carved into it, as 19th-century images show: Transcendental Graphics via Getty Images According to the American Park Network’s bushmulching.bar website, the tree was hollowed out in the s to compete with a similar tree in Yosemite National Park, which had become a popular tourist Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins.

The toll from the powerful winter storm rolling through Northern California included one of Calaveras County's oldest residents, a giant sequoia called the Pioneer bushmulching.bar tree, named for the tunnel that had been carved into its broad base years ago, was located in the Calaveras Big Trees State Park and toppled Sunday.'We lost an old friend today,' wrote county resident Jim Allday, who posted a Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins.

Jan 10, Iconic Sequoia 'Tunnel Tree' Falls After Intense Winter Storm. By: Christopher Hassiotis.

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The Pioneer Cabin Tree in California's Calaveras Big Trees State Park fell on Sunday, Jan. 8, WIN-Initiative/Getty bushmulching.bar: Christopher Hassiotis.

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