According to the staff report, cedars rot with age from the inside out and most old specimens are hollow at the base. In this case, the report adds, decades ago a portion of the circumference also rotted or was shattered by a lightening strike, leaving a doorway to the hollow core. For the last century this anomaly has been the backdrop for thousands of amateur photographs of people standing in the hollow.
-- 'Hollow Tree' teeters on the brink of destruction in The Vancouver Courier, Wednesday March 26th 2008
Must've been an insanely bright light. Unless, of course, they meant lightning strike.
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