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To: Gauguin who wrote (46082)	1/30/2000 10:26:00 PM
From: Crocodile	Respond to of 71178

I like to slip the thing into and out of the gear w/o the clutch. It's like magic. Ya know. Yes, I know... My dad taught me to do that when I was a teenager... He loved cars and he made driving seem like an art. I've only driven with 2 or 3 people who give me that same feeling... gee... maybe you'll be one of them, eh? I like trees, too. And there are still some big ones up the way. Have you ever seen big firs? The only "big" trees I've seen are the redwoods in Muir Forest and other places in CA... Up here, the trees that I find impressive are the very mature sugar maples...which have a mass and maturity to them... like wise old people well-rooted to the land...their great limbs reaching out in every direction.... A few of the places that I go hiking into haven't been logged out during this century and you see some pretty grand trees there... I especially like the giant beech trees which have extremely smooth soft grey bark. They are kind of neat because, if someone carves their initials in the bark, you'll still see it decades later. On some of the trails where I hike, there are trees with initials and dates that go back into the 1920s and 30s... I wouldn't want to go scratching their bark up these days though as they aren't really too plentiful anymore. Up our way, this was great country for birchbark canoes at one time. However, you don't see the kind of big birch trees that were used for that anymore... they would be pretty rare even up the valley. Wish there were more forests where you could see "real" trees...