What it s like to hike 100 feet off the ground in a California redwood forest
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Two visitors peer into the canopy.Courtesy of ELA/Amy Kumler
On a pathway suspended 100 feet above the forest floor in the Sequoia Park Zoo’s new Redwood Sky Walk attraction, two women are studying an enormous, knobby growth on the side of a redwood tree.
“It’s different to see a burl this close,” Lynn Leger says to her longtime friend Arlene Harten. “It’s so gnarly, literally.”
Leger’s a Eureka resident who has been volunteering at the zoo for 20 years, and Harten a former Caltrans personnel officer has been a member at the zoo since the membership program started.