Over Labor Day Clara and I visited the Bristlecone Pine Forest
in the White Mountains. We hiked around the Methuselah Grove of
the world's oldest trees, some over 4500 years old, and through
a surprisingly large forest of mostly bristlecone pines. Then we
strolled through the Patriarch Grove, where the largest and
newest bristlecones live, above 11,000 feet in elevation, and
where the youngest are reclaiming their old range higher and
higher up the mountains. From this grove, we also hiked to the
summit of a small peak, from ... (more)