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Show MOUNTAIN TIMES Weird Al, the Bear River Movie Monster, When it comes to insurance, it isn’t what Mr. McNulty and the Wooden Octopus By Jack you know, but who. Wright In college I knew this dude who said he wanted to be a tree. Why would you want to be a tree? I asked. “Because, .I would learn a lot of patience,” he said. Bob Kruger hope you're not disappointed, but Weird Al, the Bear River Movie Monster, Mr. McNulty and the Wooden Octopus are nothing more than high country conifers. Three of them are in the Wasatch and the other in the Uinta Mountains. They are all strange, crazy trees and that’s why they have FAMILY OF FINANCIAL PLANNING SER" FARM UTAH 1901 BUREAU LIFE INSUF ? WEST DES IOWA FARM BUREAU INSURANCE COMPANY SAL T LAKE CITY = CITY, UTAH Prospector Park names. Weird Al is a tubby White Fir along the Great Western Trail north of Big Mountain. Weird Al is nearly 12 feet in circumference, but the poor fellow — many decades ago, I would guess — lost his crown. To compensate, Weird Al has put all his growth into a couple of branches just below his missing top. So there he is with no top and two huge branches dipping out and down to their elbows, then rounding upwards towards the sky. I swear those branches could hold a giant accordion, and under the right conditions Weird Al could squeeze out one magnificently loud tune. ie ie BUSLlLAU FOU Ave. City, Utah Box 68087 84068 Bus. (801) 649-4625 Res. (801) 645-8508 Fax (801) 649-3531 Photos by: Mr. McNulty Jack Wright rying along with a lodgepole pine on its back. Don’t camp near that tree at night. Or, if you do, keep a big ax within reach. Up in the Butler Fork drainage on the southeast flank of Gobbler’s Knob, there’s a Douglas Fir having the rather comical name, Mr. McNulty. This is a big tree, a full 18 feet, 3 inches in circumference. It, too, is crownless, so it doesn’t spire the heights as you might expect. Nailed to the trunk is a rusting, LOTS OF The Bear River Movie Monster, lodgepole pine. looking like a cross between an arachnid and a The Bear River Movie Monster is a tree right out of some 1950s Sci-Fi movie. Actually, it’s not the tree that’s the monster, it’s the roots. They look just like the legs of some giant insect crawling along the sloping bank of the Bear River. The roots were long ago stripped of their soil by the current and now they have clothed themselves in _ bark. The tree, itself, sits perfectly straight and tall, its trunk a good three feet out from the top of the bank, supported by a spidery mass of roots. It looks to me like a giant tarantula scur- yellow survey tag, filled out by someone named McNulty on July 12, 1967. The Wooden Octopus is almost as menacing as the Bear River Movie Monster. It’s a limber pine tentacled to the side of the ridge coursing south from Mount Raymond. The roots of this monster slither several feet through cracks in the stone. If you ever hike past the Wooden Octopus, watch out for that sucker. Give it a wide berth and be alert. If it comes after you, don’t try to fight it. Better to just surrender your M&Ms. @ PAGE 13 Lupine, Aspen, Poppy, Sod, Seeds Daisy, KNOWLEDGE, Spruce, Lilac, White Fir, Maple, Canadian Red Cherry, Honeysuckle, @ IDEAS, Juniper, Sedum, Shovels, Willow, Delphinium, Mulch, Columbine, Hollyhock, Lawn Coneflower, arrow, Furniture, Flax, Petunia, Snow-in-Summer, Soil Pep, Wild Flower Carpet, Crab Apple, Geranium, Salvia, # SPRINKLER PARTS, Experience, Top Soil, Rakes, Dogs And Much More... Park City Nursery 649-1363 de HWY 224, across from the Blue Roof Market |