Over Labor Day Clara and I visited the Bristlecone Pine Forest in the White Mountains. We hiked around the Methuselah Grove of the world's oldest trees, some over 4500 years old, and through a surprisingly large forest of mostly bristlecone pines. Then we strolled through the Patriarch Grove, where the largest and newest bristlecones live, above 11,000 feet in elevation, and where the youngest are reclaiming their old range higher and higher up the mountains. From this grove, we also hiked to the summit of a small peak, from ... (more)