"This place looks like it has been ravaged by a tornado," Lyle exclaimed, looking around in astonishment.
Originally, this should have been a redwood forest, where these towering plants could grow to dozens of meters high. The dense needles and the moisture they contained were enough to block out the sunlight, as though giants had taken root in the earth. Lyle sized up the diameter of a nearby redwood stump—dozens of people would be needed to encircle it. These 'giants' must have been truly magnificent before they fell.
Although their remains were still quite spectacular.
All of these great trees had been broken, leaving only about ten meters of their form above ground. The shattered gray bark mixed indistinctly with the soil, crossing the path and making the originally simple landscape complicated like a maze. Moss and fungi made homes on the corpses of giants, but in some places not covered by green, Lyle could still make out traces left by wild beasts or something else.
