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The Pioneer Cabin Tree, the California sequoia that had had a tunnel carved in it in the s so that people, and for a time cars, could travel through, has fallen.

Jim Allday of Arnold is a volunteer at the park who was working there Sunday. He said the tree went down about 2 p.m.

The most famous was the Wawona Tree, in Yosemite National Park; it fell during a winter storm in at an estimated age of 2, years.

and “shattered” on impact. Jan 10, Zen philosophy aside, when California's Pioneer Cabin sequoia, one of the largest trees in the world, fell over on Sunday, Jan. 8, following an intense winter storm, it most certainly made a thunderous bushfelling.bar: Christopher Hassiotis.

Jan 09, The famous Pioneer Cabin Tree, a giant sequoia in Calaveras Big Trees State Park, fell during the weekend's massive storm."The storm was just too much for it," the Calaveras Big Trees Association posted on Facebook along with images of the fallen giant taken by park volunteer Jim Allday. Jan 09, ARNOLD, Calif., Jan. 9 (UPI) -- An iconic sequoia tree in northern California, famous for a pathway carved through its trunk, fell as Northern California endured severe storms and Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins.