#foto #WHITEBARKpine 🌲 on #Wallowa Greenstone @ 2650m

99% of these pines have sprouted from
forgotten Nutcracker caches. Remarkable!
Baker City, #OREGON below
#EagleCapWilderness

#trekking #backpacking #bikepacking 🚴🏼‍♂️ #photo

FLOWERS, a soundpoem This is "FLOWERS, a soundpoem" by Cliff Crego on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

FLOWERS, vimeo.com/919292838?fl... #EagleCapWilderness #Oregon

#FLOWERS are to the background green
of meadow & forest what a well-make #POEM
is to the constant chatter of sounds
which surrounds us. How strikingly beautiful
they are, these centers where essences converge

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #foto

#nativeplants #foto Alpine Ensemble w/ Roundleaf Alumroot (Heuchera cylindrica) 2500m Bowhunter Pass, view West #EagleCapWilderness #OREGON

ALPINE GEOMETRY?

Horizontal lines of water
vertical lines of trees
everything else f r a c t a l s
in between

#trekking #backpacking #wildflowers #fractals

#trekking #foto 🌲 #Whitebarkpine Country at 2250m #EagleCapWilderness #OREGON

You can bike up from town of HALFWAY 800m
cache your rig at SUMMIT 1900m
climb to 2100m & you’re in
#wilderness 1/6th the size of #Switzerland
No CARS. No TRUCKS.
At nite, nothing but silence & stars

#bikepacking 🚴🏼‍♂️

#foto HIDDEN LAKE at 2200m #EagleCapWilderness Northeast #OREGON end of JULY aspect, good snow year 2011

#Whitebarkpine 🌲 at the lake are already
gone; Only gray standing SENTINELS.
Where I’m standing at POP CREEK PASS
2400m, they’re doing okay

#trekking #backpacking 🥾 #ClimateBREAKDOWN

#trekking 🌲 LIMBER PINE (Pinus flexilis) closely related 5-needle species to #Whitebarkpine on the remarkable MARTIN BRIDGE LIMESTONE of the #EagleCapWilderness #OREGON. At 2650m

LIMBERS are rare in the #WALLOWAS
But they form a unique old-growth (1000 yrs)
community at CRATERS OF THE MOON
#IDAHO

#foto #skiing MAY basecamp at 2250m on 3m of snow. Enjoying the protection of a #Whitebarkpine 🌲 TREE ISLAND #EagleCapWilderness #OREGON

With #ClimateBREAKDOWN
the elevation of continuous snowpack
is rising a thumb’s width (2cm) every day.
Whitebarks 🌲 have since 1850 climbed UP
250m.

#trekking

#foto WHITEBARK PINE at 2600m on GREENSTONE, oldest SPECIES (1000 yrs+) on oldest ROCK (250,000,000 yrs) #EagleCapWilderness

To know the trees
Is to love them
To love the trees
is to make them your friend
To make trees your friend
Is to surround yourself
w/ teachers🌲

#trekking #OREGON

#nativeplants SULFUR-FLOWERED BUCKWHEAT (Eriogonum umbellatum) at 2200 meters, dry southwest exposure....September aspect

Tight, low cushion, short wooly hairs on nearly
succulent spoon-shaped leaves...a marvel
of subalpine adaptation...

#OREGON 🌲 #EagleCapWilderness #WALLOWAS #wildflowers

#foto #Whitebarkpine Here at 2300m on the Northside of the #EagleCapWilderness at ANEROID LAKE, most of the 5-needle Whitebarks are already gone. A HOTTER DRIER climate is pushing them UP the mountain.

NOTE the STRIP BARK TREE, one branch lives on with
its own root system.

#trekking #backpacking

#foto #trekking 🌲💧Muir Lake (aka Crater Lake) +-2300m. Southside #EagleCapWilderness, end of JULY

Most cirque lakes are at this altitude, btwn 2100-2300m, carved by glaciers, then exposed during the HOLOCENE past 10,000 yrs.

#Whitebarkpine country, on beautifully
bright batholith granite

#OREGON

#booksky 📚 #RILKE IN THE WALLOWAS 80 new tr. & 120 photos, by CLIFF CREGO #pdf #ebook 212 p/ 208Mb bit.ly/1wK5opD

#POETRY? The one humans do
that makes rest of #NATURE
jealous.

#poetry #Gedicht #translation #EagleCapWilderness #OREGON #foto #trekking #photography #landscape

#trekking 🌲LEARNING to speak #Whitebarkpine...

In the #WALLOWAS #EagleCapWilderness, when your
altimeter hits 2200m., start looking for this gestalt:
full rounded form, upward turning branches. Contrasts
sharply w/ more narrow Spruce & Fir. Upclose,
look for bundles 5-needles.

#backpacking #foto

🌲 Sentinel #WHITEBARKpine snag w/ #OREGON blue sky at 2500m... #EagleCapWilderness

Beauty in Death?
Powerful ascending spiral,
dead before William Clark had seen
his first Nutcracker…

NOTE there’s not a trace of Mt Pine Beetle…
Composite cores would yield a 1000 yr
#CLIMATE story. 🌲

#WALLOWAS

#backpacking 🌲 Whitebark Pine Country & #EagleCapWilderness the motionless center about which the great energy wheel of the #WALLOWAS turns. A natural #MANDALA

My WHITEBARK RESOURCE PAGE, w/ books, videos, photographs, etc. at picture-poems.com/whitebarks 🌲

#OREGON #trekking #philosophy #photo

#wildflowers 🌿 Rosy & White Spiraea (S. splendens & betulifolia) In #WALLOWAS, white "clicks OUT" & rosy "clicks IN" at ± 1600 m.

Two signature beauties of the #OREGON high country;
How are they changing w/ #ClimateBREAKDOWN?

#phenology #nativeplants #trekking #EagleCapWilderness #climatesky

Evening fishing on Mirror Lake in the Eagle Cap Wilderness.

Evening fishing on Mirror Lake in the Eagle Cap Wilderness.
#landscape #pacificnorthwest #oregon #wallowacounty
#eaglecapwilderness #USA #mirrorlake #photography
#hiking #Canon

#photo RIGHT NOW, 7:00 NT Oregon looking over high pressure inversion into Snake River Country & Idaho.

The #ALPS were--think #Ötzi the
5,300 old ICEMAN--inhabited
TOP DOWN for this reason:
Life is much better above the clouds 🙏

Day now 30’ longer since #SOLSTICE

#EagleCapWilderness #CH #OREGON

THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto… This is "THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto…" by Cliff Crego on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

#music #poetry #ClimateBREAKDOWN “THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto…” vimeo.com/844665859

“…the metaphysical urgencies
of the present moment…”

#Whitebarkpine #wilderness #EagleCapWilderness #OREGON 🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #WALLOWAS #trekking #backpacking #musicsky

The view of Wallowa Lake and the Eagle Cap Wilderness from the moraine trail.

The view of Wallowa Lake and the Eagle Cap Wilderness from the moraine trail.
#landscape #pacificnorthwest #oregon #wallowacounty
#eaglecapwilderness #USA #moraine #photography
#hiking #snow

THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto… This is "THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto…" by Cliff Crego on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

#music #poetry #ClimateBREAKDOWN “THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto…” vimeo.com/844665859

“…the metaphysical urgencies
of the present moment…”

#Whitebarkpine #wilderness #EagleCapWilderness #OREGON 🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #WALLOWAS #trekking #backpacking #musicsky

SUNSIGHT, a soundpoem 🎵 #music #poetry SUNSIGHT! A soundpoem https://vimeo.com/840482816 Sunrise. No! Sunsight. Yes! Fuller was right. Each morning the Earth turns to greet the Sun We…

🎶 #music #poetry SUNSIGHT, a soundpoem, for #BuckyFULLER vimeo.com/840482816

TAKES you on an 8’ walkabout in
the #Whitebarkpine country of the
#EagleCapWilderness #WALLOWAS
#OREGON

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #trekking 🥾 #bikepacking 🚴🏼‍♂️ #musicsky

#trekking Krag Peak Basin 2400m Fall Equinox aspect #EagleCapWilderness

This #foto is a 6-day #BIKE 🚴🏼‍♂️
to #PORTLAND The totally bogus
projected #TRUMP reality will have
us believe #PDX is a war zone?
How does Gov. Tina KOTEK put up
w/ such mafia-style bullying?
In #OREGON we‘re better than that!

#PoemsToLiveBy no. 3 #RILKE "TO MUSIC"
Recorded in the #EagleCapWilderness

The best love #poem to #music
I know… . . .

"Pure. Immense.
No longer habitable..."

mp3 bit.ly/2mZbc1h

🌕 #Sun2Sound🎵#Gedichten #Arspoetica #classicalmusic #philosophy #musicsky

#wilderness #trekking Ridgeline at 2600m the #WALLOWAS #EagleCapWilderness #OREGON #backpacking

Cold front swept thru last nite, w/
strong winds / fine dust getting into camera gear
MORNING: Brilliantly clear, OREGON Blues skies
as far as you can see… . . .

#climbing

SUNSIGHT, a soundpoem 🎵 #music #poetry SUNSIGHT! A soundpoem https://vimeo.com/840482816 Sunrise. No! Sunsight. Yes! Fuller was right. Each morning the Earth turns to greet the Sun We…

🎶 #musicsky SUNSIGHT, a soundpoem, for #BuckyFULLER vimeo.com/840482816

TAKES you on an 8’ walkabout in
the #Whitebarkpine country of the
#EagleCapWilderness #WALLOWAS
#OREGON

This is where the music was composed…

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #trekking 🥾 #bikepacking 🚴🏼‍♂️ #musica #poesia

#trekking 2680m above the town of JOSEPH & Mt HOWARD chairlift, North #WALLOWAS #EagleCapWilderness #OREGON

THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: A #Whitebarkpine
time-lapse, one shot a decade.
We see trees marching up 10m a frame,
fleeing a HOTTER DRIER climate.
Just 200m till they hit
the ceiling 🌲

#backpacking

#trekking 💧 SLICK ROCK FALLS, easy hour’s hike from trailhead, #EagleCapWilderness Hurricane Valley, Northside of the #WALLOWAS

🚴🏼‍♂️ an uphill wonderful ride to trailhead
from the tourist town of Joseph, #OREGON
Coming into the pathless land of #wilderness

#backpacking #GoBIKES

🌲 Solo #Whitebarkpine at 2700m, #EagleCapWilderness #OREGON

All the forested land in background
is TOO LOW for these remarkable
high-elevation 5-needle pines.
Think of that. That's #climate!

🥾 #trekking #backpacking #ClimateAction #climatesky

#Whitebarkpine 🌲 on solid Wallowa batholith granite 2500m #EagleCapWilderness #OREGON

“Today it is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence; it is either nonviolence or nonexistence.“
#MLK (1959)

The higher we go in Whitebark
Country, the deeper the resonance
of true words… . .

☮️