Another Ode to Jeffrey Pine (Pinus jeffreyi)!- Mt. Laguna, Ca
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ย. 2024
- Cleveland National Forest- Laguna Mountains- San Diego County, Ca. Here, I am awestruck by an old Jeffrey Pine, so I just had to document this one, appreciating its old age and natural, rugged beauty! These clips are also part of my upcoming hiking video (to be uploaded this week after editing): 8/14/24: Cleveland National Forest- Hiking Laguna Meadow from Laguna/El Prado Campgrounds- Mt. Laguna, Ca! This video is not only a love letter to an awesome tree, but is also a short but important glimpse into an extraordinarily beautiful place in San Diego County's Laguna Mountains!
Love me a Jeffrey... love how their branches twist and gnarl, they are beasts!, have those gentle unprickly cones, and course smell of vanilla nature goodness. Thx for the Jeffrey tribute B
Thanks for watching! I hope to find more old ones next time at Mt. Laguna!
Wow, Brian!! These are DEFINITELY like "my" Sierran "bully boys" that you may recall me rhapsodizing to you about! I would guess that this tree's leader was lost, oh, say 1890-1920 or so. Maybe this meadow is in large part sheltered from regular scouring from prevailing strong winds, but there's always exceptions to rules. When conifers grow as "lone wolves" away from competition, they do tend to wear their limbage all the way to the ground, as with these two you'd pointed out for us. No competition from forest mates, no hand of man--nor the natural attacks of wind, lightning, nor snow loadings--with great water tables in meadows. Even Giant Sequoias could grow like this!
The legendary TV series, "Bonanza", was NEVER, ever shot in the Sierra. It was invariably shot in SoCal's mountains, with the Pacific Ocean once "standing in", for Tahoe (above Big Sur). This meadow reminds me, of the show's opening sequence, when Ben and his lads come charging in on horseback across the meadow, out of the burning map, though I've been told that this particular sequence was actually done in Lockwood Valley under the shadows of Frazier Mountain and Mt. Pinos (The rest was done at Republic/Paramount Studios). Michael Landon did a lot of his "Little House" in that same locale, too, a VERY poor "stand-in" for relatively flat and heavily forested and prairied Minnesota. Shirley Temple movies ("Heidi", "Now and Forever", & "The Blue Bird"), "J.A.G." (Siberian/Russian forests), "Star Trek", "Dr. Quinn" (Colorado?! NOT!!), and "Combat!" (to double for far-Eastern France, near the Swiss & German borders in WW II), were all shot in the SoCal mountains.
Interesting bits of showbiz info there! With that in mind, I would love watching Airwolf with Stringfellow Hawk and Dominic Santini flying the chopper over the mountains, and I would see them flying over steep slopes of Jeffrey Pine, White Fir, Incense-Cedar, and of course, Sugar Pine, likely either the San Bernardino or San Gabriel Mountains! Stringfellow's cabin was shot at Lake Hemet in Garner Valley, Riverside County! I also remember part of an episode of Columbo (season 1, 1971), filmed at a "San Diego Mountain Cabin", which was actually at Big Bear Lake (I recognized the mountains behind the lake!)! About Bonanza, the "Ponderosa Ranch" is a misnomer, since the pines are Jeffrey Pines!!!! Ha Ha! In fact, the actual town Ponderosa (7,100') off Hwy 190 is actually full of Jeffrey Pines instead of the Ponderosas found lower by Camp Nelson, or whatever is left after the 2020 fires!
large scars can often end up becoming tree hollows in longer living hardwood trees