Yeah, I remember those pine cones. Hiking the PCT this spring, i did pull out my head out of the tent a few times thinking some animals were running around. I finally found out it was some of those big cones falling down and rolling down the hill. I was afraid of encounting bears but finally I just got afraid of pine cones... :) Thanks for the details, always good to know a little more of these great friends from the nature wonders. Cheers!
The heaviest pine cone! These trees are def on my list of pines to check out. My favorite cones in terms of esthetic are probably still from the Jeffrey and Lodgepole pines. I also have a particular affinity for the cones of the great basin ancient bristlecones, the sugar pines and of course the sequoias. Thanks for sharing and happy trails!
The Jeffrey Pine cone is probably the most esthetically pleasing cone. I now have a Coulter Pine cone sitting on my mantle. The less common trees are always interesting. I still need to do a video on Sugar Pines which are pretty common around me. There are still lots of others that I haven't gotten around to yet so stay tuned and thanks for watching.
Nice to see a video near my neck of the woods! I live in Orange County and hike in the Angeles, San Bernardinos, and all the So. Cal ranges! The Coulter Pines are closely related to the Gray Pines and Torrey Pines. Coulters are usually shorter trees, but at Palomar, they can get quite tall just above the Fry Creek Camp area. The Fry Creek Campground features some of the largest Bigcone Douglas-Firs I have ever seen, almost looking like Coast Douglas-Firs!! Palomar also has the largest Black Oaks I have ever seen as well!
Hello to another tree nerd. The trees add a lot to my hikes. I'm a northern California guy and do almost all my hiking in the Sierra. When I go to areas I'm not familiar with I always love to see new species I'm not familiar with. In this video I mention I was surprised to see douglas fir when I misidentified the big cone douglas fir. I had never seen one before seeing them on Palomar. That's quite a fascinating tree island of interesting species up there. My all time favorite conifer is the Sierra Juniper but they are all interesting in their own way. Keep exploring!
Yeah, I love the Sierra Junipers!! There are many huge specimens in the San Bernardino Mountains! And those Bigcone Douglas-Firs, I am obsessed with them! They are such charismatic trees! Yesterday I was hiking in the San Bernardinos, and I swear I saw a hybrid Coulter-Jeffrey Pine. The tree had cones that were intermediate in size and shape between the two. It was quite a sight. James Eckenwalder, in his tome "Conifers of the World," places Coulters (Grays and Torreys also) in the Ponderosae subgroup of Pinus, along of course, with Ponderosa and Jeffrey Pines! I will upload a video in the next day or so if you're interested in seeing the apparent hybrid tree.
@@jenniferklenske8401 Well, these trees are very common, fortunately! You can find them starting about 3,000' (sometimes less) driving up the mountain highways. The trees are usually much shorter than the higher elevation Jeffrey Pines and White Firs. The Coulter Pines have shorter, broader profiles as well, and seeing the huge cones on the trees will be all you need to see to know they are Coulters. They are relatively absent from most of Big Bear itself, but you will see them driving the mountain highways (Ca- 330, Ca-18, Ca-38) way before even getting to Big Bear. You can also find them at Palomar like in the video, and then you can find them in the San Gabriels (Angeles Crest, Angeles Forest Highway) in L.A. County, most of San Diego County's highest mountains, and even in Orange County in the Santa Ana Mountains, planted and natural. Blue Jay Campground off Long Canyon Road, accessed from Ortega Highway (Ca-74) is a place to see some awesome mature specimens in OC!
@@brianpowell5082 By now, you've probably found confirmation that you've seen hybrids! Seem to be becoming more common, as well as adaption to climate change and urbanization--in animals as well as plants (Downy-Hairy Woodpecker crosses) I agree with you about the striking beauty of Bigcone Douglas-firs. Even from a mile away, you feel like you're looking at a true mountainside when that free-form conifer is standing twice as tall as its neighbors.
I love Coulter Pines, they are one of my favorite trees! I grew up in Alaska and the black spruce needles are super short and the cones were only about the size of your thumb, so these Coulters seemed really exotic. I took a friend to Pinnacles National Park and we called the Coulter cones pine grenades! We used to have pine cone fights back home in Alaska, but those Coulter cones could seriously damage a person!
Yep. Although it was in the morning when they were roosting in the trees. Also saw deer, bats, coyotes, and turkeys. Plus a hike up North Chalone Peak to one of the best views from an outhouse that you will find anywhere!
Live on East Coast Dublin Ireland. Coulter pine huge one planted 1880s plants ferns. Found young Coulter pines. Many old grey pines. Howth Castle Gardens Dublin.
Thanks Ricky Bobby! My wife has final call on the beard. The Sierra will be covered in snow soon so I may have to break out my snow shoes now that I can walk pretty good again.
Well my efforts do admit to USFS Nursery Trees, yet unknown to me possible here, but dry, 5,oooft Have some questions yet still finding these Trees I am seeing are also mixed with Knobcone Pine, Western Whites , I am observing something.
Huh! Where are ya? I thought Western White Pine doesn't like too much heat or drought (Northern Sierra Nevada), whereas Knobcone handles heat well (Inner North Coast ranges)
@@Lightharvest-dd2bf Near Mt. Shasta, below Castle Lake, serpentine type soils, well drained, near former USFS Nursery sore, with potential hybrid species .
Nice video. I used to have a cabin near Lake Hinshaw in Santa Ysabel. Another unique and interesting tree in the area is the Bigcone Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga macrocarpa). They live in the canyons around Mt. Palomar and Santa Ysabel. You might have seen some of them driving up the mountain. They are beautiful trees to look at.
Thanks for pointing that out. I thought it highly unusual to see Douglas fir on Palomar and I mentioned seeing some in this video. Only when I read the park brochure the next day did I learn that they were the Big Cone Douglas Firs. Another species I have never come across since I spend most of my time in the Sierra. I love discovering new trees I have never seen before. The black oaks in the park also had much smaller leaves than they do up north. Not sure why. I really enjoyed Palomar - it was my first time up there. We did have a massive thunderstorm Friday night with an inch of rain and some lightning strikes very close to us. Our tents survived the deluge but my daughter was freaked out by a very close and loud lightning strike and we have experienced many high elevation lightning storms in the Sierra backcountry over 11k. This was one of the loudest I'd ever heard.
Too bad you did not have a chance to check out MESA Grande area not far from Palomar Mountain. That area has a population of Engelmann Oaks that are considered rare trees. They are type of white oak. I had some living on my property along with large black oaks at 3,500ft. If you have a chance google them. Thanks again for making videos about plants and hiking. 🌲👍
I have come across a few Engleman Oaks and they are indeed special. I didn't know they were so rare and threatened from development. I will pay more attention to them in the future. I am very fond of oaks and do a lot of arborist work on them. In my area we have blue, valley, black, and interior live oaks. I was just able to save a 200 year old Live Oak from the developers who thought it was at an inconvenient location where they wanted to build. I pulled the heritage oak card on them and refuted their false claims of disease. That tree is going to be around for another 100 years.
That’s awesome you were able to save a 200 year old live oak. I know reside west of Austin, Texas and there are some massive live oaks and other beautiful deciduous oak species in this area such as post oak, red oak, and black jack oak. Texas has some heritage oak laws as well, but with the rapid development out here the law does not save them all by any means. If an old oak is in the way then most of the time it is destroyed especially for new subdivisions. Nice that there are other people out there who see the beauty in trees.
I live in So. Cal, but have seen Post Oaks in Arkansas, and they are gorgeous! That Palomar area is legit; some of those Bigcone Douglas-Firs are so tall they look like Pacific Douglas-Firs, especially in the Fry Creek Campground. Bigcones are one of my favorites!
Hello! I am writing to you with an unusual request and a business proposal. I live in Russia and have been growing culter, Lambert and Jeffrey pines from seed for 4 years. So far, so good, but I don't know much about them. What frosts they are able to withstand? Any information would be useful to me. And (if possible) I would have bought from you or someone else collected the seeds of these pines. Thanks.
I don't know where to get seeds. These trees grow above 6000 foot elevations and can withstand freezing temperatures in the winter. In summer where they grow it is dry and warm with low humidity. Russia is a big place so not sure what latitude you are at. They are hardy trees and I'm sure you can get them to grow but not thrive unless conditions and soils are similar to where they normally grow.
@@Hvoevoda They are very similar trees and both very hardy trees. In my experience Gray Pines are more hardy but Coulter Pines would be a little more hardy at higher elevations.
A, unless someone planted Douglas Fir there on Mount Palomar, that is not what you saw. You saw Big Cone Spruce, which is not a spruce but a fir. It is the cousin to Douglas Fir in Southern California. It is also in that book you showed in this video. Please look at the distribution of each and what you saw is Big Cone Spruce. Good video, and started watching yours this year, keep going please, I learn from areas I haven't visited yet. I am from Southern California. Take care...
Hey thanks so much for pointing that out. As you may know I'm a native northern California guy and have spent very little time in the southern ranges. I thought it really strange to see douglas fir and didn't take the time to examine the trees since I was on a hunt for the giant cones of the Coulter. I did read the park brochure the next day and discovered my mistake as it mentions the Big Cone fir / spruce. Checking the distribution map does indeed show it a common tree in the southern coast ranges and nowhere else. I've never seen one before. Like you I like to learn from areas I haven't been. I've got lots of trees still on my video to do list. Since my daughter moved to San Diego I've been exploring the nearby mountains. I'm glad you are familiar with the Conifers of California book. It is so well written for a tree guide book. I've even reached out to the author who retired in Placerville 15 miles from me. Thanks for watching.
The Big Cone Spruce (or fir) is actually my favorite evergreen in Southern California. Full grown, they remind me of clipper ships. Young, they are duplicates of Douglas Firs. I have hiked all over the San Gabriel Mountains all of my life, so Coulter and Big Cone Spruce are numerous there. If you are in San Diego visiting, may I suggest Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve. It is the same canyon that Torrey Pines sits atop of which you did in another video. It is by far my favorite place for viewing Sycamores and Coastal Live Oak. Also, the Santa Rosa Plateau for Coastal Live Oaks and Englemann Oaks. I should retiring in a decade or more in the Greenhorn Mountains, so I haven't been in that neck of the woods until recently in the last 5 years, so I am learning. In the future I will be watching more of your past videos. So thanks and keep them going. Thank you
Douglas was a great botanist, but it's a shame he didn't insist on more scrutiny of the conifers he "discovered." They are NOT firs; they're NOT spruces. They're not even hemlocks-- which was used in the new genus name, "pseudo (false) tsuga" (hemlock). They were called spruce during the 1950s. By the way--there would be less confusion about tree relationships if our language "experts" had kept the hyphen (Douglas-fir, poison-oak, Osage-orange, Mountain-ash.) It's still correct to use a hyphen for clarity--so just do it!
@@ApeMan Another great guide is "Trees and Shrubs of California." Sometimes Shrubs ARE the forest! And besides, California shrubs will more often have noticeable flowers and fruits than the Tall Ones do.
Love the beard...looking a little like John Muir. Who’s videoing? Your daughter? I’ll look out for the trees next time I hike Mt Diablo. Live not far from there!
I met my daughter there for a camping trip at Palomar. Usually I balance the camera on a rock but Elaine filmed me here and was being attacked by those annoying black bugs that constantly fly in your face. There is even a trail in Mt Diablo State Park called the Coulter Pine trail.
Ape Man I remember seeing your daughter in your JMT video. That’s awesome she likes to camp, hike and the outdoors. I’m sure she will remember those moments. My dad took me out camping, fishing and I know he was the reason for my love of the outdoors. I get my girls out too. Except my oldest who is almost 21...she is not into hiking, bugs etc. lol I could hear her in the background. ☺️
Most of our trips revolve around the outdoors. My daughter lives too far away in San Diego and is on her way to becoming a biologist which I’m sure her love of the outdoors influenced her career choice. Appreciation and protection of our wild places makes lives and people better! We are planning a nice backpacking trip together this summer. See you on the trail!
Guessing cones highly prized by Chickarees or fall apart, yet finding a very likely Con-specifuc or I am off. So add Grey pines nearby, mixed in Stand here.
Supposedly the have these planted in London England and in Germany and they do well. So based on that these things should grow near anywhere in the U.S.
EXCEPT high heat (120F for a month in Arizona), or heat + humidity (deep South), or -40F winters in north-central U.S. Also, do any California pines grow where the soil is usually swampy?
Yeah, I remember those pine cones. Hiking the PCT this spring, i did pull out my head out of the tent a few times thinking some animals were running around. I finally found out it was some of those big cones falling down and rolling down the hill. I was afraid of encounting bears but finally I just got afraid of pine cones... :) Thanks for the details, always good to know a little more of these great friends from the nature wonders. Cheers!
The heaviest pine cone! These trees are def on my list of pines to check out. My favorite cones in terms of esthetic are probably still from the Jeffrey and Lodgepole pines. I also have a particular affinity for the cones of the great basin ancient bristlecones, the sugar pines and of course the sequoias. Thanks for sharing and happy trails!
The Jeffrey Pine cone is probably the most esthetically pleasing cone. I now have a Coulter Pine cone sitting on my mantle. The less common trees are always interesting. I still need to do a video on Sugar Pines which are pretty common around me. There are still lots of others that I haven't gotten around to yet so stay tuned and thanks for watching.
I'm so glad I came across your channel. Looking forward to watching more of your video. Great stuff thanks for sharing your wisdom.
Hey thanks. I love your videos too and subscribed. Its fun talking about what you love.
@@ApeMan thanks appreciate it.
Nice to see a video near my neck of the woods! I live in Orange County and hike in the Angeles, San Bernardinos, and all the So. Cal ranges! The Coulter Pines are closely related to the Gray Pines and Torrey Pines. Coulters are usually shorter trees, but at Palomar, they can get quite tall just above the Fry Creek Camp area. The Fry Creek Campground features some of the largest Bigcone Douglas-Firs I have ever seen, almost looking like Coast Douglas-Firs!! Palomar also has the largest Black Oaks I have ever seen as well!
Hello to another tree nerd. The trees add a lot to my hikes. I'm a northern California guy and do almost all my hiking in the Sierra. When I go to areas I'm not familiar with I always love to see new species I'm not familiar with. In this video I mention I was surprised to see douglas fir when I misidentified the big cone douglas fir. I had never seen one before seeing them on Palomar. That's quite a fascinating tree island of interesting species up there. My all time favorite conifer is the Sierra Juniper but they are all interesting in their own way. Keep exploring!
Yeah, I love the Sierra Junipers!! There are many huge specimens in the San Bernardino Mountains! And those Bigcone Douglas-Firs, I am obsessed with them! They are such charismatic trees! Yesterday I was hiking in the San Bernardinos, and I swear I saw a hybrid Coulter-Jeffrey Pine. The tree had cones that were intermediate in size and shape between the two. It was quite a sight. James Eckenwalder, in his tome "Conifers of the World," places Coulters (Grays and Torreys also) in the Ponderosae subgroup of Pinus, along of course, with Ponderosa and Jeffrey Pines! I will upload a video in the next day or so if you're interested in seeing the apparent hybrid tree.
Where do you find these? We have been wanting to hike and find these trees. I thought I heard there were some in Big Bear?
@@jenniferklenske8401 Well, these trees are very common, fortunately! You can find them starting about 3,000' (sometimes less) driving up the mountain highways. The trees are usually much shorter than the higher elevation Jeffrey Pines and White Firs. The Coulter Pines have shorter, broader profiles as well, and seeing the huge cones on the trees will be all you need to see to know they are Coulters. They are relatively absent from most of Big Bear itself, but you will see them driving the mountain highways (Ca- 330, Ca-18, Ca-38) way before even getting to Big Bear. You can also find them at Palomar like in the video, and then you can find them in the San Gabriels (Angeles Crest, Angeles Forest Highway) in L.A. County, most of San Diego County's highest mountains, and even in Orange County in the Santa Ana Mountains, planted and natural. Blue Jay Campground off Long Canyon Road, accessed from Ortega Highway (Ca-74) is a place to see some awesome mature specimens in OC!
@@brianpowell5082 By now, you've probably found confirmation that you've seen hybrids! Seem to be becoming more common, as well as adaption to climate change and urbanization--in animals as well as plants (Downy-Hairy Woodpecker crosses) I agree with you about the striking beauty of Bigcone Douglas-firs. Even from a mile away, you feel like you're looking at a true mountainside when that free-form conifer is standing twice as tall as its neighbors.
Bottom limbs shade out, usually dead fall away, noticed lower branches almost self-pruning as they die. (Limbs or light starved limbs below.
Hi. In Chile we still have coulter pine. Good video..
That is truly exciting!!
I love Coulter Pines, they are one of my favorite trees! I grew up in Alaska and the black spruce needles are super short and the cones were only about the size of your thumb, so these Coulters seemed really exotic.
I took a friend to Pinnacles National Park and we called the Coulter cones pine grenades! We used to have pine cone fights back home in Alaska, but those Coulter cones could seriously damage a person!
Did you see any California condors in the Pinnacles?
Yep. Although it was in the morning when they were roosting in the trees.
Also saw deer, bats, coyotes, and turkeys. Plus a hike up North Chalone Peak to one of the best views from an outhouse that you will find anywhere!
Live on East Coast Dublin Ireland. Coulter pine huge one planted 1880s plants ferns. Found young Coulter pines. Many old grey pines. Howth Castle Gardens Dublin.
Add Sidkiyous County, knowing the Areas Conifer Diversity overall, now excited to Id these Amazing Trees.
Keep the beard. John Muir would concur. haha. Looks good and keep the great videos coming. More Sierra Trail!!!!! Most beautiful place on the planet.
Thanks Ricky Bobby! My wife has final call on the beard. The Sierra will be covered in snow soon so I may have to break out my snow shoes now that I can walk pretty good again.
Palomar is a cool and often overlooked area. Good call. Thanks
Well my efforts do admit to USFS Nursery Trees, yet unknown to me possible here, but dry, 5,oooft Have some questions yet still finding these Trees I am seeing are also mixed with Knobcone Pine, Western Whites , I am observing something.
Huh! Where are ya? I thought Western White Pine doesn't like too much heat or drought (Northern Sierra Nevada), whereas Knobcone handles heat well (Inner North Coast ranges)
@@Lightharvest-dd2bf Near Mt. Shasta, below Castle Lake, serpentine type soils, well drained, near former USFS Nursery sore, with potential hybrid species .
Nice video. I used to have a cabin near Lake Hinshaw in Santa Ysabel. Another unique and interesting tree in the area is the Bigcone Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga macrocarpa). They live in the canyons around Mt. Palomar and Santa Ysabel. You might have seen some of them driving up the mountain. They are beautiful trees to look at.
Thanks for pointing that out. I thought it highly unusual to see Douglas fir on Palomar and I mentioned seeing some in this video. Only when I read the park brochure the next day did I learn that they were the Big Cone Douglas Firs. Another species I have never come across since I spend most of my time in the Sierra. I love discovering new trees I have never seen before. The black oaks in the park also had much smaller leaves than they do up north. Not sure why. I really enjoyed Palomar - it was my first time up there. We did have a massive thunderstorm Friday night with an inch of rain and some lightning strikes very close to us. Our tents survived the deluge but my daughter was freaked out by a very close and loud lightning strike and we have experienced many high elevation lightning storms in the Sierra backcountry over 11k. This was one of the loudest I'd ever heard.
Too bad you did not have a chance to check out MESA Grande area not far from Palomar Mountain. That area has a population of Engelmann Oaks that are considered rare trees. They are type of white oak. I had some living on my property along with large black oaks at 3,500ft. If you have a chance google them. Thanks again for making videos about plants and hiking. 🌲👍
I have come across a few Engleman Oaks and they are indeed special. I didn't know they were so rare and threatened from development. I will pay more attention to them in the future. I am very fond of oaks and do a lot of arborist work on them. In my area we have blue, valley, black, and interior live oaks. I was just able to save a 200 year old Live Oak from the developers who thought it was at an inconvenient location where they wanted to build. I pulled the heritage oak card on them and refuted their false claims of disease. That tree is going to be around for another 100 years.
That’s awesome you were able to save a 200 year old live oak. I know reside west of Austin, Texas and there are some massive live oaks and other beautiful deciduous oak species in this area such as post oak, red oak, and black jack oak. Texas has some heritage oak laws as well, but with the rapid development out here the law does not save them all by any means. If an old oak is in the way then most of the time it is destroyed especially for new subdivisions. Nice that there are other people out there who see the beauty in trees.
I live in So. Cal, but have seen Post Oaks in Arkansas, and they are gorgeous! That Palomar area is legit; some of those Bigcone Douglas-Firs are so tall they look like Pacific Douglas-Firs, especially in the Fry Creek Campground. Bigcones are one of my favorites!
Hi Ape Man , great to see you looking fit and healthy love the beard. What a beautiful spot and amazing sized fir cones!!!!! Best wishes from germany.
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Hello! I am writing to you with an unusual request and a business proposal. I live in Russia and have been growing culter, Lambert and Jeffrey pines from seed for 4 years. So far, so good, but I don't know much about them. What frosts they are able to withstand? Any information would be useful to me. And (if possible) I would have bought from you or someone else collected the seeds of these pines. Thanks.
I don't know where to get seeds. These trees grow above 6000 foot elevations and can withstand freezing temperatures in the winter. In summer where they grow it is dry and warm with low humidity. Russia is a big place so not sure what latitude you are at. They are hardy trees and I'm sure you can get them to grow but not thrive unless conditions and soils are similar to where they normally grow.
@@ApeMan I understood you, thank you. I live in south-west Russia, 500 km south from Moskow
@@ApeMan And one queston else, please. What is more hardy - coulter pine or sabiniana (gray pine)? Thank you
@@Hvoevoda They are very similar trees and both very hardy trees. In my experience Gray Pines are more hardy but Coulter Pines would be a little more hardy at higher elevations.
@@ApeMan Ok, thank you very much
A, unless someone planted Douglas Fir there on Mount Palomar, that is not what you saw. You saw Big Cone Spruce, which is not a spruce but a fir. It is the cousin to Douglas Fir in Southern California. It is also in that book you showed in this video. Please look at the distribution of each and what you saw is Big Cone Spruce. Good video, and started watching yours this year, keep going please, I learn from areas I haven't visited yet. I am from Southern California. Take care...
Hey thanks so much for pointing that out. As you may know I'm a native northern California guy and have spent very little time in the southern ranges. I thought it really strange to see douglas fir and didn't take the time to examine the trees since I was on a hunt for the giant cones of the Coulter. I did read the park brochure the next day and discovered my mistake as it mentions the Big Cone fir / spruce. Checking the distribution map does indeed show it a common tree in the southern coast ranges and nowhere else. I've never seen one before. Like you I like to learn from areas I haven't been. I've got lots of trees still on my video to do list. Since my daughter moved to San Diego I've been exploring the nearby mountains. I'm glad you are familiar with the Conifers of California book. It is so well written for a tree guide book. I've even reached out to the author who retired in Placerville 15 miles from me. Thanks for watching.
The Big Cone Spruce (or fir) is actually my favorite evergreen in Southern California. Full grown, they remind me of clipper ships. Young, they are duplicates of Douglas Firs. I have hiked all over the San Gabriel Mountains all of my life, so Coulter and Big Cone Spruce are numerous there.
If you are in San Diego visiting, may I suggest Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve. It is the same canyon that Torrey Pines sits atop of which you did in another video. It is by far my favorite place for viewing Sycamores and Coastal Live Oak. Also, the Santa Rosa Plateau for Coastal Live Oaks and Englemann Oaks.
I should retiring in a decade or more in the Greenhorn Mountains, so I haven't been in that neck of the woods until recently in the last 5 years, so I am learning. In the future I will be watching more of your past videos. So thanks and keep them going. Thank you
Thanks for the tips. I will check those out next time I'm down there. I always enjoy checking out new flora and fauna.
Douglas was a great botanist, but it's a shame he didn't insist on more scrutiny of the conifers he "discovered." They are NOT firs; they're NOT spruces. They're not even hemlocks-- which was used in the new genus name, "pseudo (false) tsuga" (hemlock). They were called spruce during the 1950s.
By the way--there would be less confusion about tree relationships if our language "experts" had kept the hyphen (Douglas-fir, poison-oak, Osage-orange, Mountain-ash.) It's still correct to use a hyphen for clarity--so just do it!
@@ApeMan Another great guide is "Trees and Shrubs of California." Sometimes Shrubs ARE the forest! And besides, California shrubs will more often have noticeable flowers and fruits than the Tall Ones do.
Love the beard...looking a little like John Muir. Who’s videoing? Your daughter? I’ll look out for the trees next time I hike Mt Diablo. Live not far from there!
I met my daughter there for a camping trip at Palomar. Usually I balance the camera on a rock but Elaine filmed me here and was being attacked by those annoying black bugs that constantly fly in your face. There is even a trail in Mt Diablo State Park called the Coulter Pine trail.
Ape Man I remember seeing your daughter in your JMT video. That’s awesome she likes to camp, hike and the outdoors. I’m sure she will remember those moments. My dad took me out camping, fishing and I know he was the reason for my love of the outdoors. I get my girls out too. Except my oldest who is almost 21...she is not into hiking, bugs etc. lol
I could hear her in the background. ☺️
Most of our trips revolve around the outdoors. My daughter lives too far away in San Diego and is on her way to becoming a biologist which I’m sure her love of the outdoors influenced her career choice. Appreciation and protection of our wild places makes lives and people better! We are planning a nice backpacking trip together this summer. See you on the trail!
Guessing cones highly prized by Chickarees or fall apart, yet finding a very likely Con-specifuc or I am off. So add Grey pines nearby, mixed in Stand here.
That intro music tho
As firewood it is significantly different, nothing that, strange Pinus
Supposedly the have these planted in London England and in Germany and they do well. So based on that these things should grow near anywhere in the U.S.
Yes they can grow in many places but native here. Watch your head!
EXCEPT high heat (120F for a month in Arizona), or heat + humidity (deep South), or -40F winters in north-central U.S. Also, do any California pines grow where the soil is usually swampy?
Super Pinus Coultera
Santa?
You better be nice!
Sugar and Western Whites, too, or was that Bingo?