Adventure 058 - Treehouse

Capture California, the Game-2012

Adventure: 058 - Treehouse

Team: Thing One, Thing Two

Date:  September 12, 2012

Location: Crescent Meadows, Sequoia National Park

Retry:
No matter how hard we tried, Thing One and Thing Two just loved what Tharp did with his treehouse. It just seemed so, well, Thingy. So we will not inflict the world with our drawn tree house rendetion of Tharp's Log

Description:
Last week we were wandering around Giant Forest and saw the many big trees. Thing One thought, what a wonderful place to a tree house, in a Sequoia Tree. Think of those mighty boughs holding you up! What a great feeling it would be to sleep amongst the sequoias—the agelessness of them, the majesty. But how do you get up to them? That rope ladder would be very, very long?

























Well some guy named Tharp—see our historic adventure #34 for background—did have his house in a sequoia. All the great ideas are taken! But he did solve the problem of the climb. He found a fallen sequoia, which over time had been hollowed out. He added a side and front for protection. Then put in a table and bench seats, along with a fireplace and a place to sleep. And as Thing Two would say, wala! We have a treehouse. Pretty neat, ah? So for this year, that would be our tree house—a house made out of a giant sequoia right there in Giant Forest. What a place to live!

See our historic adventure for more info on Tharp and his log.



Here is what we did with last year's adventure:


Item: 58 - Tree house
Team: Tired 'Tirees
Date:  Oct 5, 2011
Link: Treehouse of Dreams

Desc: It is finally a rainy day in Fresno, so we can do a rainy day adventure. (Of course, if you do look back, we did sneak a rainy day adventure last month.)

A tree house, the fantasy of young males. The place where you are the captain, the owner, the boss. There is no one else who can order you around up there. This is the stuff which dreams are made from.

Several years ago, I read a story by GK Chesterton, an author which I love, about different, literal events. The book was called The Club of Queer Trades. One of the stories was about a strong military man who was suspect of lying and possibly of murder all because he told the literal, but maybe a bit incomplete truth. Chesterton has a way of captivating the fantastic, while being witty and true.

So shortly after this, I noticed in our local paper, a story about the trauma being experienced by Micheal Garnier who was trying to start a hotel business. That is a hotel in the trees. Yes a treehouse hotel. You have to see some of their video's--they are just fantastic. When these folks fought with their county engineers, they finally won when they had 66 people up in one of their houses.

So our picture is based upon one of these hotel tree house's. No I cannot draw this way, but I can work Photoshop some. The original photo is from the Out'n'About Outffiters site.

Oh yeah, did I tell you that they have a zip line course as well. Unfortunately, this is in Oregon. The place is called Out'n'About Outfitters and no, I have never been there and do not know these people.