El Granada, California always had the best mix of suburban housing mixed in with empty lots and huge groves of Eucalyptus trees. This created a great enviroment for kids to built tree houses, forts and neighborhood jumps. The town is much more devleloped now, so most of the places I remember from my youth have become new houses. Other tree forts and jumps have been destroyed purposedly in this new age of liability. However, a few of these old masterpieces survive, and a couple are still built and manage to stay alive for a while before being torn down by scared property owners and uptight dog walkers. Here are two I viseted today:
A smaller, closer to the ground fort with the big one just visible in the background.
The big house up in the trees.
Climbing Up. Much higher than it appears in the picture.
View from inside.
Ground fort, view from above. It has a rain cover and camo.
Nice place to chill.
One of the exits/entrances to the ground fort.
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