Back behind the shrines and things there was a stand of giant, old cedar trees. As I was taking pictures of the trees a stranger offered to take a shot of me, which is above.
The reason I was photographing the trees was that they were all tied to one another (and the ground, and other things) with giant steel cables. Maybe to compensate for erosion, but lots of little thumb-sized sprouts were cabled too. The dryads must hate that.
