Christmas expansion

The project grew a bit larger this Christmas season.

How much larger? Here are two pictures for scale. One is a top down view of the current area of operations. The second is a zoomed out area with the first area inset for comparison. 

New total area outlined in red is now a bit over 12 acres, which is approximately 5 hectares. Magenta rectangle shows relative size of the sequoia patch within the larger area. 

The vast majority of the new land depicted with darker green is rough forested terrain. Several large hills are separated by deep creeks. 

The work to clear out space for the trails and new locations for sequoias will begin in the spring. There is also a plan to build a solar farm to supply the sequoia hill operations with energy.

In other news, Bitcoin hit an All Time High (ATH). 

Mid-December update on temperature data and walk-through video

 Two sensors have been collecting data for a bit over two weeks. 

It is quite remarkable how little the temperature underground changes. Now that we are in mid-December the temperature at one foot ground depth (blue line) have steadily dropped from about 6-6.5C to 4.5-5C. This winter was mild so far as can be observed by the above ground (red line) temperature staying well above freezing from noon through early evenings most days. 

So far there is no concern what so ever about tree roots access to liquid water. 

The next interesting step is 3 inches of snow that covered the ground today. The air temperatures are expected to stay below freezing next few days.

Video walk-through the park