Halfway up a mountain...

Shasta Red Fir, only grows at elevations about 5500 feet, pretty as hell though... foliage and cones

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Coming down the hill, through the hotlum lava flow at milepost 356...

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Cone CRop on Incense Cedars...

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Beginning of a conk mushroom at the foot of a rotten hemlock at 10,000 feet up Mt. Shasta.

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The surrounding scenery...

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MT. Hemlock foliage. This beautiful conifer will not grow below 8,000 feet.

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Triple trunked Mt. Hemlock...

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Forget the name of this butte, but its near the beginning of the ascent to mt. shasta...Easy to imagine a giant volcanic explosion out of the nearby crater.

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Panther MEadows...really nice spring nearby. Natives are trying to fight off the invasion of hippies from Mt. Shasta as this is considered a sacred cultural site...

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This tree is having a hard time getting very tall as the snowpack must be about ten to twenty feet , effectively burying this guy in the winter...

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White fir all ornament-ated wit some nice cones...

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Red Hawk in Golden Gate park...

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Is this a pillow basalt? I think so, not sure though...possibly deep oceanic basalt that erupted under high water pressue at the bottom of the ocean...pretty interesting geologic phenomenon, frequent in california...

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Here it is again with the excess formatting stripped out so the links auto-format . . .

Shasta Red Fir, only grows at elevations about 5500 feet, pretty as hell though... foliage and cones

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a148/joe_blowe/IMG_3549.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a148/joe_blowe/IMG_3572.jpg

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Coming down the hill, through the hotlum lava flow at milepost 356...

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a148/joe_blowe/IMG_3544.jpg

http://s10.photobucket.com/albums/a148/joe_blowe/IMG_3545.jpg

Cone Crop on Incense-cedars...

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a148/joe_blowe/IMG_3524.jpg

Beginning of a conk mushroom at the foot of a rotten hemlock at 10,000 feet up Mt. Shasta.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a148/joe_blowe/IMG_3557.jpg

The surrounding scenery...

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a148/joe_blowe/IMG_3555.jpg

MT. Hemlock foliage. This beautiful conifer will not grow below 8,000 feet.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a148/joe_blowe/IMG_3561.jpg

Triple trunked Mt. Hemlock...

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a148/joe_blowe/IMG_3559.jpg

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Forget the name of this butte, but its near the beginning of the ascent to mt. shasta...Easy to imagine a giant volcanic explosion out of the nearby crater.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a148/joe_blowe/IMG_3568.jpg

Panther Meadows...really nice spring nearby. Natives are trying to fight off the invasion of hippies from Mt. Shasta as this is considered a sacred cultural site...

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a148/joe_blowe/IMG_3567.jpg

This tree is having a hard time getting very tall as the snowpack must be about ten to twenty feet , effectively burying this guy in the winter...

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a148/joe_blowe/IMG_3551.jpg

White fir all ornamented with some nice cones...

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a148/joe_blowe/IMG_3570.jpg

Red-shouldered Hawk in Golden Gate park...

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a148/joe_blowe/IMG_3517.jpg

Is this a pillow basalt? I think so, not sure though...possibly deep oceanic basalt that erupted under high water pressue at the bottom of the ocean...pretty interesting geologic phenomenon, frequent in california...

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a148/joe_blowe/IMG_3573.jpg

 

And very nice pics they are too!

 

I'll say. It's wonderful to go walkabout in other peoples wilderness. Just thinking what a wonderfull time the sulphur crested cockatoos would have there with all the pine cones. Just been watching them on a neighbour's tree as they spit and chew through something.

Liz