We found this tree, must have been over a century old, but still alive. It fell over at some point but continued to grow. As you can see next to me is a full sized tree trunk growing from the downed tree.

As we approached this amazing tree we came across some downed pines. We climbed through their branches still on the trail.

There were two vertical trunks coming out of the century old tree that fell.

The tree was so massive it was hard to get any meaningful photo of it in its entirety.

Many other downed trees in this region of the forest, but smaller younger trees probably knocked out when severe storms have come through the area.

This region of the Appalachian forest had a really special feeling, some amazing trees all around made the experience very natural and was a good way to get away from masternodes for awhile :-)