This image is another taken from the area around Deer Park in Olympic National Park. The campground is at about 5400 feet (1646 meters), so you can enjoy the high country without having to backpack up to it … although the road is narrow, winding and unpaved. You can see the area that was burned a few years earlier. Fortunately, the campground was protected and not damaged by the fire. The ‘skirts’ about the base of the trees are distinctive.
Very nice!
Love their green skirts!
That is called “krummholz”. The lower branches layer out by putting roots into the ground. A common form in subalpine areas … the snowpack protects the low growing limbs from the winter weather extremes
I see Bigfoot or is that Jeff?
Is there a difference?