Dead Trees (Pics)

[pitdog]

Great pics, good to know I'm not the only one to find beauty in dead tees etc !!!!

 

[mtnfolk mike]

great pics guys....:thumbup: i've been to quite a few of those same spots bear...

 

[ilbruche]

These are Bristlecone pines from Cedar Breaks National Monument in Utah. The big tree is 1600 years old.

 

[tknife]

Great thread, I think they look cool too. Took this one in Golden Trout Wilderness last summer

 

[ilbruche]

More from Utah.

 

[bearthedog]

Yes!!!!! You guys are so in the club!!! I love them all. Can you guys name some of the locations?
Lets keep them coming please.

 

[loraksus]

If you want some dead trees, come up here to BC, Canada. The pine beetle infestation is ... it's hard to explain - if you stood on a summit 10 years ago, you could see dense, green forest all the way to the horizon. Now, the landscape is more red than green - literally the whole province is like this.

http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/dnd/photos/photogallery_files/FallPicBugPine.jpg
Red is dead.

 

[lambertiana]

Yes!!!!! You guys are so in the club!!! I love them all. Can you guys name some of the locations?
Lets keep them coming please.

Ask and ye shall receive. My first picture in the other post was on the PCT just north of Chicken Spring Lake, Sequoia NP.

This one is on the middle fork of the Kings River, Kings Canyon NP:

This one is in Cloud Canyon, Kings Canyon NP, on the slopes of the Whaleback:

This is also on the Whaleback:

On the JMT between Wallace Creek and Crabtree, Sequoia NP:

On the PCT, Chicken Spring Lake area, Sequoia NP:

Also near Chicken Spring Lake:

On the PCT between Chicken Spring Lake and Soldier Lake:

On the PCT just south of Guyot Pass, Sequoia NP:

On the PCT just north of Guyot Pass:

And on the main Mount Whitney trail, just above Mirror Lake:

 

[kjbenner]

Nice pictures, everyone; makes me really want to get out of the city and get into the woods.

In 2002 I was hiking through Cimarron, NM in places where wildfires had been burning just a week or two before. There's something haunting about walking through a forest of charred wood that was alive not a month ago.

 

[lambertiana]

On the PCT just south of Crabtree, Mt Whitney in the background. The trees don't show clearly, but instead of being all gnarly, they were just straight poles.

 

[Evolute]

Dead trees can be lovely.

By the way ZH, Californians also do call dead trees snags.

 

[bearthedog]

Holy crap them some lively pictures for some dead trees.

 

[zenheretic]

I don't have access to any of my good ones (which pale to what you guys have) but here is what I have right now...hope you don't mind the knife pollution.

 

[Keith_H]

Great pics, guys! I don't think that Bob Ross would call these "happy little trees"

I will try to get some pictures of ones near here.

 

[Pritch]

Awesome pics, guys! I recall seeing some lightning-struck snags like that around the Hilton lakes in the Sierras. (Bertween Bishop & Mammoth)

These aren't even in the same league, but they're all I have on my computer:

-- FLIX

 

[bearthedog]

Welcome to the club flix! Nice pictures everyone, wow!

 

[zenheretic]

 

[hollowdweller]

Here's a few of my favorites.

A dead tree growing on limestone on Chimney Top on North Fork Mt.

These are on the West Fork Trail. The one is a beaver dam:

 

[lambertiana]

Hollowdweller - That chimney top is cool, I'd like to sit on top of it for a while.

 

[Win Heger]

This is a great thread, thanks for all the cool pictures.. I love old, gnarly trees.
Now for a few of mine.

Win

Twisted Forest, SW UtAH:

Zion N.P.:

Moquith Mtn, SW Utah:

Win