Large boulder on the ridge.

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This large boulder sits directly on the ridge, the Jacob's Ladder trail bypasses to the right.

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RayMondo

Strewth

Voted 10/10

That's gotta be a space rock !

So, Mr Chekov reports, Captain, that asteroid looks like a giant meatball.

Scotty comments, aye, it's meatyalright (get it, meateorite...)

Posted Oct 23, 2011 4:37 pm


	junodirtrider	Re: Strewth
	Voted 10/10	I like the alien stump in the foreground! looks like a yawning ghost moving across the ground like in pac-man!!
		Posted Oct 23, 2011 9:31 pm


	Wasatchvoyage	Re: Strewth
	Hasn't voted	Funny you guys mention the space rock! Most all the terrain up there is a white colored granite, which seems to extend out to the Traverse Range for some distance. How this dark colored boulder got there seems to be a bit of a mystery. I think it's still granite, though rotten and oxidized over millenia... That stump used to be a Juniper tree. Those things are so damned hardy I'm surprised this one is gone. I imagine it may have succumbed to lightning at one time or another. What's really interesting about this area is the stark landscape you see in the photo. If heading up the remainder of the ladder, then up the south ridge about another 2,500 feet up, the terrain abdruptly changes from Juniper and Gamble Oak to lush aspen, pine and spruce forests. Simply incredible how much changes happen up there on that terrain so quickly!
		Posted Oct 24, 2011 12:04 am


	RayMondo	Re: Strewth
	Voted 10/10	Yeah, tree lines start and end abruptly. I remember my trip to Sequoia National Park. Not a redwood in sight, until I turned a corner, then, there they stood. Have one in my garden !
		Posted Oct 24, 2011 8:35 am


	Wasatchvoyage	Re: Strewth
	Hasn't voted	You a horticulturist Ray? If so that's pretty cool! Personally I've got more qualifications as a horticultural architech than I do for my current job. Never pursued that line, but the love for it remains a true hobby, mainly cactus, succulent plants, and Bonsai. Here is a couple of my trees I've been working on for several years. They require constant maintenance, mainly daily watering, semi-annual root trimming and re-potting to keep them small. Fun though!
		Posted Oct 24, 2011 11:00 pm


	RayMondo	Horticulturalist...
	Voted 10/10	Well, we've always very much liked trees. My Pa brought with us new conifer seedlings from the originals, when we moved to the countryside. I got the Sequoia in Las Vegas. Yes, an unlikely encounter. But as I pulled the handle on the fruit machine, three trees came up ! Ha ha ha. No, I got the seedling in Caesar's Palace gift store. Though the tree is now 25ft since 1994. Although liking the altitude, somehow they do grow okay here. Very nice Bonsai. A dedicated hobby for sure.
		Posted Oct 25, 2011 12:36 pm


	Wasatchvoyage	Re: Horticulturalist...
	Hasn't voted	Cool that it's now 25 feet! My Dad owns cabin property up off the Buffalo River in Island Park, Idaho. Over this past summer he's been up there clearing some of the property for his cabin site, and he managed to bring home a lot of Lodgepole Pine saplings he didn't want to toss out. I've got two planted in the yard, and yet another in a Bonsai container. Cool coincidence. Also, I found a small cutting of an actual Saguaro cactus, the kind with the hug arms/branches from the Sonoran desert in Arizona. On the cutting I used rootone, a stimulatant to help expedite root growth, planted it in a sandy container. The plant has rooted and grown about 3 inches over the past 6 or 7 years! Cool to have a cactus like that which is natively indigenous to the Sonoran. Here is a photo, the Saguaro is far left. A few of the Bonsai's are at the right. Sorry about the lighting in this photo, it kind of drowns everything out.
		Posted Oct 25, 2011 1:34 pm


	RayMondo	Re: Horticulturalist...
	Voted 10/10	Nice cacti and lovely veranda. I managed to create a few cuttings from the Sequoia here. Heard it said, can't be done. Must be the water here ! The tree is now on the Sequoia Registry. Once of the best jobs I've gotten done is, the cabin and deck in the garden. Next year, the mowers come out into a separate shed. Then I can go sleep up there and pretend I'm up in the wilds. Darn good view up there too.
		Posted Oct 25, 2011 2:00 pm