#ClimateBREAKDOWN in #CANADA & #US #Whitebarkpines are already listed as endangered. Blister rust. Bugs. Trump. Vance/Thiel et al A whole hoard of pesky pests

But the real killer
is a hotter, drier #climate

So if we go to climb in the wilderness
in my view, now we MUST go w/o cars 🌏

#trekking

The #ZEN of #WHITEBARKPINES teaches this is not struggle, this is not competition…

It is simply being 🌲

At 2550m, on Greenstone, the oldest rocks in the #WALLOWAS (Krag Peak at 2700m in background)
Cache #BIKE 🚴🏼‍♂️ East Eagle trailhead (1400m)

#EagleCapWilderness #OREGON #trekking

#Whitebarkpines SURVIVOR, at 2500m, #EagleCapWilderness

WHITEBARKS grow slow. The rings
are nested tightly together, making
them tough. They don’t sway in wind
Like BRISTLECONES,
another 5-needle pine, each branch
has its own root system capable
of weathering adversity🌲
A tree for our time

#OREGON

#trekking LITTLE EAGE MEADOWS ar 2220m, fall aspect, an hour’s run to SUMMIT TRAILHEAD cache your #BIKE 🚴🏼‍♂️ (well-hidden)

#EagleCapWilderness with a rich
& troubled history of overgrazing
Multiple bands of 1200 ewes w/ lambs
Herders from the Pyrenees

Where ancient #Whitebarkpines still flourish 🌲

#trekking Solo #Whitebarkpines among Juniper at 2500m in the beloved community we call the #EagleCapWilderness

STAND like tree
SIT like a mountain
FLOW like a stream
It’s the B-day of a new world
For 1000 years, don’t give up this place

Cache #BIKE 🚴🏼‍♂️ #WALLOW LAKE
#HIKE in. Rest a few days

#OREGON

#trekking KRAG PEAK BASIN at 2500m East-facing glacial cirque, #EagleCapWilderness offering #Whitebarkpines natural refuge

Cache bike 🚴🏼‍♂️ at SUMMIT
parking lot (well hidden)
at 1900m

Hike over LITTLE EAGLE MEADOWS
to CRATER LAKE. Climbs poss.
in all directions…

#backpacking #WALLOWAS #OREGON

#trekking KRAG PEAK CIRQUE, 2400m August aspect (good snow year) A pathless refuge in the south #EagleCapWilderness for healthy #Whitebarkpines

To know the trees is to love them.
To love the trees is to make
them your friend.
To make the trees your friend
is to surround yourself
with teachers 🌲

#trekking Last light on CRATER LAKE, a glacier-carved south-facing cirque at 2300m #EagleCapWilderness

The #Whitebarkpines at the lake are in trouble.

W/ practice, you learn to read the past forest 200m below once you discover all the 5-hundred-year-old snags—the SENTINELS—still standing.

#OREGON