Everyone should check out Friend o’ the LoCO Ashley Harrell’s story in SFGate this morning.
What’s it about? Pretty much as the headline above suggests, it turns out that there are social media influencer dipshits who regularly come to the North Coast to illegally climb tall trees in Redwood National Park — specifically Hyperion, the tallest tree in the world — in order to post dumb videos of themselves doing so.
Harrell patiently attempts to speak to said dipshits to figure out why the fuck they do what they do; and also to park rangers about the fact that it is absolutely illegal; and also to experienced botanists about how these activities trash the trees and the delicate canopy ecosystem.
Below: “Chasing Adventure: The Arborist,” a 60-minute movie exactly as stupid as its title, featuring one crew of absolute bell-ends doing their idiotic thing.