Moto Adventure to the LARGEST Tree in the World - Day 103

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Solo adventure motorcycle travel and touring.
KTM 690 Enduro, Mosko Bags, Leatt Armour, Forma Boots
*** Apparently I wasn't in the actual "Pando" Aspen Grove. The grove I was talking about was up the road a mile. Didn't mean to mislead anyone, but the info is correct just the wrong grove. Thank you ‪@mtbwasatch‬ for the correction. ***
We wake up in dispersed camping near Torrey Utah with amazing views of the Grand Escalante (Grand Staircase) and get the show on the road. We immediately head left towards Pando. This Quaking Aspen grove has a unique claim to fame. Pando (the name of the Quaking Aspen grove) is one organism connected by an immense root system making it the largest in the world. Located near Fish Lake Utah in Fishlake National Forest it spans 106 acres and weighs 6000 tonnes. Pando (Populus tremuloides) or quaking aspen trees are all over at high altitudes and this specific one is the largest. They are known as the trembling giant.
We continue on and do a review of the new Subway wrap and make a failed attempt at Sevier Lake to race on the salt basin. Through the Grateful Dead Basin National Park on Highway 50 to the Ward Charcoal Ovens State Historic Park where we get into a little fire science.
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0:00 Opening Sequence
1:17 Explaining Pando
4:31 Heeeeeere's Pando
8:05 New plan to the Charcoal Ovens in Ely Nevada
8:49 The review of the new Subway wrap
11:34 A Salt Lake?
13:39 Ward Charcoal Ovens State Historic Park
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[@juliahadford8722]

Great video!

[@gettinglostshow]

Thank you. Very kind of you to say. I was actually a mile from Pando unfortunately, but the information still stands. Haha

[@SammyStarZ]

I Love this video! I learned a lot about Quaking Aspen trees (and lots more interesting plants) during a field botany class I took this semester at my college. Definitely learned a lot more about them watching this. They’re like their own hive mind lol. 👍🏻 Great stuff!

[@gettinglostshow]

Haha awesome, stoked you dug it. Pretty amazing stuff that I just found out about.

[@Tuppi1290]

Awesome loved learning about Pando ,good job.

[@gettinglostshow]

I appreciate that, but mostly the podcast Stuff you Should Know filled me in so I have to give them the credit. Haha

[@gettinglostshow]

The link is in the description.

[@sandragayle4806]

Ponderosa and Redwood trees are the same as Pando, Very interesting to learn about more tree's and their root systems. Makes you cringe a little when you look at how humans have used the trees as they moved across the country.

[@gettinglostshow]

Yes, the charcoal ovens at the end of the episode and the forest around them was a bummer to think about.

[@Systad_]

I wonder if Quaker Aspen are related to quaker oats

[@gettinglostshow]

They are! Directly harvested from Pando himself. Haha

[@mtbwasatch]

Sorry dude that’s NOT the Pando grove. You can’t just point to aspens and call it pando. The real pando grove straddles the highway about a mile further down the road (highway 25). You were on the Hancock flat road. Not even close. Too bad, there is an overlook that looks down on the pando grove with the lake in the background. Much more beautiful than the sage brush and scraggly aspens in your post.

[@gettinglostshow]

Serious!!! Damn! A mile down the dirt road or up the highway? That sucks, I really wanted to go. Wow I botched that haha. Sorry to everyone that I wasn’t in the right spot. By no means did I try and fake it, I promise. 😞