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Bodie Ghost Town and The Bristlecone Pine Forest have two things in common. They both lie high up on a parallel mountain chain to the Sierra Nevada, offering a spectacular vista to the west. They both also contain a great deal of dead wood. In the latter case however, the dead surface of the trees hides an interior that has been alive for thousands of years in some cases. These are the oldest known living things on Earth. Even if you are not into superlatives, the biggest this, the oldest that, these trees will captivate you with their gnarled and lavishly complex beauty. This is a forest like almost no other. Every tree has its own individual character, which is what makes walking amongst Schulman and Patriarch Groves, slightly breathlessly at 10,500 feet, such a delight.

Upper Yosemite Falls

Spray from Vernal Falls

Nevada Falls

Vernall Falls from above

Yosemite Falls from Glacier Point

Mock exhaustion on the Mist Trail

Vernal Falls from below

Vernal Falls from the Mist Trail

A dried out Upper Yosemite Falls
autumn 1988

Tuolumne Meadows
from near Tenaya Lake

Upper Yosemite Falls

Large format photographer
at Bodie State Park

Close-up of a stream near Yosemite

Bodie State Park

Derelict outhouse, Bodie State Park

Boone store, Bodie State Park

School classroom at Bodie State Park

Derelict outhouses, Bodie State Park

Mining equipment, Bodie State Park

Typical home interior,
Bodie Ghost Town

Methodist church at Bodie State Park

IOOF building and
Dechambeau Hotel

Bodie State Park

Entrance to James Cain`s house,
Bodie State Park

Bodie Ghost Town with
Sierra Nevada behind

Mining equipment, Bodie State Park

Schoolhouse at Shaniko ghost town

Porch of James Cain`s house,
Bodie State Park

Wheaton and Hollis Hotel
and Bodie Store

Church and houses in Green Street,
Bodie State Park

School classroom, Bodie State Park

Standard Mill. Bodie State Park

Mining buildings, Bodie State Park

Bristlecone pine tree, White Mountains

Bristlecone pine tree,
White Mountains

Lone trees near Patriarch Grove,
White Mountains

Bristlecone pine tree,
White Mountains

Sierra Nevada range seen from the
east across Owens Valley

Bristlecone pine tree,
White Mountains

Dead bark of a bristlecone pine tree

Twilight in Schulman Grove,
White Mountains

Bark of a bristlecone pine tree

Bristlecone pine tree at 10,000 feet
in the White Mountains

Dead bark of a bristlecone pine tree

Schulman Grove, bristlecone pine tree

Dead bark of a bristlecone pine tree

A fantastic bristlecone pine tree
in Schulman Grove

Dead bark of a bristlecone pine tree

Lightning ravaged pine tree
near Lake Tahoe

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