TRAIPSING THROUGH ROCKY WOODLANDS ON THE JOHN MUIR ANDWALCOTT TRAILS

摘要

My husband and I stared at an old tree's roots that appeared to be swallowing or trying to crush a tall, narrow boulder on the John Muir Trail, a Blue-Blazed Hiking Trail in north-central Torrington. "How in the world did those roots manage to creep over such a big rock to reach the soil?" I figured that before those roots grew long enough to reach the ground, they must have found enough soil on the boulder itself.The week before, on the nearby Walcott Trail, my friend Noreen and I had encountered two other boulders engulfed by huge roots that looked like tentacles. The trees' tenacity amazed, and reassured, me.