Finding Hyperion, the Tallest Tree in the world! Redwood National Park 

You're right

That's how I found this too! 🙂

VSauce just got arrested for some pretty serious crap

@@TommyVercetti-z2u for what

Yea, took me a while to figure out what VSauce was, I see he used some of my video in his video now.

😭🙏🏻

That tree has to be stopped

You can't stop people from visiting a tree in a forest, it belongs to all.

Do you own that tree? No, so fuck off I’m finding it and I’ll take pictures

@@JamesBalmforth if people keep visiting it, it will die

@@incription Oh, does it not like people?

You obviously don't get out much.

@@farmersadventure6232 I get out plenty, I'm just confused as to why you have to pay to visit a public funded national park. You don't see the issue there? Tax dollars are already being used for it, why pay extra? You shouldn't have to pay extra to visit nature. Parks, lakes, hiking trails etc. that's ridiculous.

Agreed. What the hell. Banning people from visiting a natural wonder in their own state is sickening.

West Coast has a lot of beautiful Scenery, Minnesota is pine trees and corn lol

The tree was never under any threat. Some people just like banning stuff, it's very sad.

JUST DID, IDGAF

It would be nice to grow some but I don't think they would like Minnesota winters 🤔

@@farmersadventure6232 The Dawn Redwood would do great in Minnesota. Partly because it loses it's needles in the winter.

Dawn Redwoods survive Vermont winters, Zone 4, but late spring frosts can kill, force new buds. My trees planted 1990 are tall! Maybe 45 feet?

Agreed. All those trees are huge, and you would never know one is 10 feet taller than the others.

I did leave it alone

Totally agree. Let these giants be free of human activity, in their tranquility and silence. There are already so few of them left (the old ones, not referring to sapling) that humans have wiped out for their own self-centered, careless greed.

Yes it was July 17 2019. If we were roughly 100 yards further down the trail we would have been right next to it!

Yup you think that

Its not. Just look at a picture of hyperion, the base is totally different.

@@alhslmya me either it doesn’t even look big enough to drive a car threw it. Other red wood trees looks bigger the base didn’t even look that big. I would of hiked a distance from it so you can see the top.

@@georgecarroll1213 are you maybe confusing Hyperion with the General Sherman tree? Hyperion is the tallest tree, not the biggest. That would be General Sherman, a giant sequoia (those are the ones with massive trunks) and the biggest tree in volume, but 83,8 m in height. Hyperion is a coastal redwood with less volume but 115,85 m in height.

Told the ranger when we got back and they just leave them them as they fall

You go in the visitor center and ask for the access permit and they give you the gate code

@@farmersadventure6232 wow your amazing thanks for the info i was so confused!

Anyone attempting to prohibit you from accessing publicly owned forests should be ignored.

First time I went and found it myself but along the way hooked up with a couple from LA in the creek and we found it together. If you google search it there are many videos about this tree and also websites with directions. There is a lot of debate whether or not the location of these big trees should be revealed to the public so I made this video pretty vague on where to go and not a step by step but if you google search its not hard to find. Average Joe could find it with online directions (dont plan on cell service so print or screenshot/save directions) but know you need to get a permit which they have limited numbers so get there early, you have to walk up a creek and around/over/under some big logs, and the trip back up the hill is pretty long but you can take breaks if needed.

@@farmersadventure6232 How long is the hike?

Its illegal to hike to the tree

@@dogguy8603 Irrelevant.

​@@JamesBalmforthNo? You can get arrested and fined

Honestly it is hard to get a good view of it, there are much better trees to see like the General Sherman in Sequoia National Park, or the General Grant Tree (The "Nation's Christmas Tree") in Kings Canyon

Last went there 2019 so no

@@farmersadventure6232 so they can't go retroactive through vids? This one newscast was making it sound almost so and that they were going after bloggers!?!?

No you can't retroactive enforce. Also I don't show people how to get there, the problem is all the people that don't care, trampling things, spray painting, or basically destroying things. I did my research and we are careful with the environment but I'd say most people aren't, either they don't know or don't care, probably both which is sad.

@@jeremyrhansen6637 basic principle of law. You can't make a new law and then charge people who "broke" it even before the law existed.

@GenAznX since you obviously didn't read the previous comments, we were there in 2019, they didn't restrict access until 2022 so it was perfectly legal to be there when we were. Also I specifically didn't film a step by step how to get there. If someone really wanted to go they could do their own google search and figure it out themselves whether or not this video exists or not.

It is a huge tree but it is hard to really get the full effect of how tall it actually is based on its location

She was happy this whole time. I just kind of sprung this on her last minute so we could have been a little more prepared than buying cheap shoes at walmart

Yea crazy, it's probably best for the area and the trees though

If you actually watched the video you would have noticed I pointed at some water and then was at the tree, I did not tell people how to get there and they can make up their minds themselves if they want to use google and "find" a tree

@@farmersadventure6232 The footage could still be used to guess where the tree is or figure it out, despite that this video isn't a full, precise guide how to get there or the exact, complete location details (coordinates or whatever) hasn't been divulged. I do see the section on Hyperion is pretty short and ambiguous, but the title of this video and the description box are about Hyperion, which is likely what people are looking for. It's the 3rd result from the top when I searched for this tree. I do see you denied a person access to the information and posted about the jail time/fines in the description box, so that shows some responsibility taken for the communal safety of this tree. But footage of this tree beyond researchers, rangers or other authorized people should not be allowed, nor posted to SM. (I mean, obviously, others could still film, but it's highly discourageable for reasons I stated above.) Posting it to SM can just make it more popular, thus can encourage people to search for it due to curiosity, experience, or whatever. That includes drones.

@@summer-c7i boo hoo. Keep crying. It's a tree. And no directions were given. Quite obviously. Watch the video before ignorantly commenting

@@shanebreezy4453 LOL, no, wrong. I already watched the video, which is why I already stated way before you even commented that he doesn't give a full guide. A person can still take this video with the coordinates and try to find Hyperion in person, despite it has been heavily discouraged by the National Park Service, who are in the caretaker of this tree. It's the interest being sparked by videos such as one like this and blogging posts that have enabled tourists to find Hyperion. That's all according to the National Park Service. There was already interest shown in this comment section to hiking up there, which whether the person did or not is unknown. So, calling out these videos isn't crying.🤣🤣 It's calling protecting this rare, old tree and forest, especially when the mentality of "it's just a tree" (or its species doesn't matter) is why there's only 5% naturally growing in California. Hyperion is also over 600 years old, so yeah, definitely not worth preserving. So, this video isn't the problem itself regarding the high-rising popularity of Hyperion (that popularity led to its degradation) and why the NPS shuttered Hyperion's surrounding area, but **this video is a part of the problem.** I also have replied to the creator in a fair, civil and factual manner. I can't say the same for you in your reply here, but lol. And regardless of what you say or want, I will continue to advocate for the safety of this tree and its species.

People who want to find it are gonna find it anyway idiot, if you don't wanna see a video of someone partially hiking to a tree then dont click on it

My backlog of videos is a little ridiculous... We go to places and make videos, then we come back and get busy at work so it's hard to find time to go back and render out some videos.

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Yes my video, that had basically no views until they said people would be fined, is the reason people climb on and destroy things......

@@farmersadventure6232 This video is probably not the reason for people to seek out Hyperion or "climb on and destroy things," of course. To be honest, I don't think most visitors came to the Park to maliciously and intentionally hurt the tree, but it's the irresponsible behavior, such as leaving garbage behind, that hurts the tree. Unfair for the land to be turned into a garbage pit, including defecation! These are rare, old trees. If someone truly wants to pursue this tree out of curiosity, experience, bragging rights or whatever, they're going to find it, at least online. The pursuit, regardless of the NPS' warnings and such, signifies selfishness to me. However, by showing Hyperion in this video and the title, even though the clip is short, it potentially enables and encourages more people to find it by using the vid to guess or figure out its location. I've seen some effort on your part to deter that, so I recognize that. I'm not saying you didn't show any care when you were hiking there, such as not climbing on the tree. But the NPS has effectively blamed bloggers and other visitors for the destruction of the flora and terrain, so even though this video isn't the problem itself, it's a part of the problem. I realize the views and likes aren't that high, and I'm sure the ban upped the views. But the potential of what I'm referring is still there, such as spiking curiosity to hike to Hyperion, especially if the Park decides to open the area back up. I think a good compromise is just to edit out Hyperion and focus on the rest of the visit, then continue to deny to divulging the exact location/how to get there.

@@farmersadventure6232 you’re the reason that giant redwood fell at the end of the video. Shame on you!

@@itsmefrisco Lol that's a good one.

I find them amusing

That is Hyperion

It sure is Hyperion. Great video guys.

You can tell it is because all of the other videos of people finding it were in the same spot

I swear the trees at cathedral Grove feel 3 times as big