With all the new snow, it seemed like a good idea to get out the snowshoes and go for a little walk. It's about 1/4 mile or so to the Rim Trail from where I'm living and it was a bit of a chore in spots. Even with the snowshoes, at times I would sink 8-10 inches in the light, fluffy snow. Nobody had been up there since the snow the night before, so I was breaking trail the whole way.This Bristlecone Pine is growing adjacent to the trail and probably measures around 45-51 cm (18-20 inches) in diameter at the widest point on the trunk. The height is probably around 6 meters (20 feet) and, though there is no way to tell without getting a core sample, a Pinus Longaeva that size is almost certainly well over 1,000 years old. Hard to imagine that this tree was a little sapling back in the Dark Ages (or maybe even before)!
