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rozoneill: Looks like the reader board had taken a hit from a falling branch or tree
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rozoneill: Burly trees were a thing in this lodgepole pine forest
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rozoneill: One of many misshapen trees
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rozoneill: The Pacific Crest Trail heads straight for Red Cone
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rozoneill: Rabbitbrush was one of the few wildflowers still blooming
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rozoneill: The Pacific Crest Trail heads straight for Mexico
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rozoneill: Red Cone looms ahead
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rozoneill: The trail was dry and dusty
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rozoneill: Small buckwheat flowered in the pumice flats
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rozoneill: Lichen finds a home on a dead tree
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rozoneill: Trees with warts and boils
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rozoneill: All the other trees called him "Lumpy"
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rozoneill: Dude, put some pants on!
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rozoneill: Burl on a deceased lodgepole pine
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rozoneill: Trail through a forest stressed by lodgepole beetle
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rozoneill: Color on an otherwise colorless tree
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rozoneill: Mirror images of each other
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rozoneill: A clump of lichen, fallen from a tree
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rozoneill: The rotten interior of a snapped off tree
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rozoneill: Trees from another planet
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rozoneill: A sparse meadow sprouts in the pumice
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rozoneill: The Pacific Crest Trail gets some quality lodgepole forest time
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rozoneill: What passes for a lush and green forest in these parts
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rozoneill: Woodpeckers think a forest of dead trees is the best thing ever
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rozoneill: Sedge grass greened up an otherwise drab trail
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rozoneill: Straight through the forest like a cannonball
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rozoneill: Red Cone doesn't look so red from here
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rozoneill: One small piece of the venerable Pacific Crest Trail
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rozoneill: Here, the trail broke out into a burn zone from a 2015 wildfire
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rozoneill: The trail goes over a small rise