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A couple of enormous junipers flanking a ragged ATV track above the Alpine Mine, near Crater Lake in California's Sierra Nevada. These are more specimens well out of their usual range--the elevation here is just under 8800 feet (~2680 m). The inset shows a close-up of the right-hand tree. Looking northeast.
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William Sutherland said:

Gorgeous shot and PIP!

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8 years ago

Pam J said:

I LOVE these

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8 years ago

Gudrun said:

I've never seen such huge juniper trees- ours usually are small and stunted.
8 years ago ( translate )

slgwv replied to Gudrun:

They're much more usually an element of the semiarid scrub, down low where the forest is thinning out. But they do occasionally occur at high elevation, as here, on dry slopes where evidently the conifers have trouble getting a foothold--and then they often grow very large indeed! We heard about such juniper occurrences from the proprietor at a lodge in Rock Creek, farther south in the Sierra. He said they were rare, but once we got our eyeballs calibrated (as a prof of mine used to say) we see them everywhere on the east slope of the Sierra! I've got a whole (and incomplete) album on them:
www.ipernity.com/doc/289859/album/735131?view=2
8 years ago

slgwv said:

Thanks, everyone! Two more for my collection ;)
8 years ago
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