slgwv's photos with the keyword: gnarly

Stressed environment! Off the Pacific Crest Trail near Andersen Mountain, at the Sierra Nevada crest south of Donner Pass.

Gnarly pine tree near the summit of Ellis Peak, in California's Sierra Nevada west of Lake Tahoe.

Gnarled juniper off the trail to the Indian Canyon Pictographs, near Coral Sand Dunes State Park, Utah.

Gnarly pine just off Crystal Ridge Run, Diamond Peak Ski Area, Nevada. Looking northwesterly; Lake Tahoe in the distance.

In a gnarly aspen grove on the flanks of Fox Mountain, Washoe County, Nevada. As usual map location is highly approximate.

One very stressed-looking juniper, another of those growing high above its usual range. Grass Lake, Desolation Wilderness, Sierra Nevada, California, off the Glen Alpine trail. Map position exceedingly approximate because the satellite view isn't working.

Probably Juniperus occidentalis , Mineral Peak, Douglas Co., Nevada, USA. This tree is actually still alive. Juniper species, along with piñon pine, are the major elements of the patchy scrub forest that occurs on the lower slopes of the mountain ranges in and around the Great Basin. Juniper traditionally was called "scrub cedar," and you still hear old-timers refer to juniper as "cedar."