hansvanmeer

Hi everybody,
I was trying to get some pictures from a DV tape of me collecting a yamadori Communis in the mountains in Austria, When i thought it would maybe be a good idea to make a thread about the collecting of this tree, right up to its first styling with those same pictures! So here we go!

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In May 2003 i went for the second time to beautiful Austria for a short 7-day holiday, which is naturally almost consumed by climbing and looking for nice yamadori.

The mountain where i discovered the Communis from this story, i had not searched on last year when i was here also in May, because of the snow that year! (photo 1)

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This mountainside is one of the most popular ski spots around, and this small tree is most off the year covered with more than 2 meters of snow. I found it there right on the edge of the tree line (2800 meters), where only a few very old Pines can survive. (photo 2)

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Everywhere you look, this mountainside is covered with Communis.(photo 3)

I found the small, but very old tree growing against and over a big rock, those big rocks where scattered around the whole mountainside.
Those rocks give the trees some sort of shelter and something to cling on to underneath all that pressure of the thick snow, and during the hardest storms.
When i had a closer look at the stunning movement off this Juniper, i discovered that the tree's roots had grown underneath the big rock and that i had to lift this monster up to be able to get to the roots!

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Luckily, i brought along a small crowbar so i could lift the rock bit by bit, every time putting a bigger piece of rock underneath it to support it, until there was enough space for my arm to get under there to free and cut the roots.(photo 4)

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It was hard work to get it out of under there, because i had hardly any room to move my hand, and the idea of that rock falling on to my arms was not helping much either.(photo 5)

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There where less roots than i had hoped for, but i was still very glad i got it out of there!(photo 6)
The roots were protected in wet spagnum moss, and then in a plastic garbage bag that was tightly wrapped with tape.

Down the mountain and off to Holland!

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