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Bob Leverett writes: On Sunday, we went to Ice Glen where we
quickly
raised the Rucker
Index to 127.0, courtesy of John Eichholz's keen eye.
I have
little
doubt that the index will go slightly higher, perhaps to 127.5
or 127.6.
The main event at Ice Glen was Will's climb of
the old Ice Glen white
pine. Because of the curvature of the upper trunk and the tangle
of
gnarly limbs, Will could not drop the tape vertically, but
snaked it
down the trunk. The length of the path was 155.8 feet.
Consequently, we
didn't change the pine's lasered height of 154.3 feet, which I
suspect
is with 0.2 or 0.3 feet of the tree's conventional height.
The
big deal was the volume modeling. Dale Luthringer stayed on the
ground and recorded Will's girth measurements via walkie-talkie.
From
repeated girth measurements and subsequent calculations, Will
calculated
the volume of the Ice Glen Pine at 920 cubic feet of trunk volume.
Were
limbs added, the volume would likely be just at 1000 cubes.
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