Bristle Cone Pine Abstract

This is a close-up image of a Bristle Cone Pine Tree captured near the tree line on Wheeler Peak at Great Basin National Park in Nevada.
I chose to shoot this close-up so as to highlight the amazing swirls, bends, twist, and other growth patterns that these trees produce over their thousands year lifetimes.
See the full image here: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/bristle-cone-pine-abstract-bill-gallagher.html
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Poking around The Crater. Because volcanos are fun!

New blog post: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-crater.html

#blackandwhitephotography #photography #monochrome #desert #greatbasin
The Sagebrush Ocean-De Alsem-oceaan-L'océan d'armoise-セージブラッシュオーシャン-Der Beifuß-Ozean-El océano de artemisa

@geekaren #POTUS and family are in #Tahoe right now. Undrainable #GreatBasin #HurricaneHilaryPath?

Lithospheric drips (a relatively cold and dense mass of lithosphere that sinks vertically into the upper mantle) have been identified using geophysical methods in the Great Basin and now in northern Borneo. The Borneo study published in Nature was accompanied by this startling artist’s depiction of a lithospheric drip.

More on Borneo here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-023-01201-7#data-availability

The latest from #NOAA #NWS #Climate Prediction Center shows a mixed outlook for the coming months.

Expect #drought relief in large parts of California, the #GreatBasin, and the Northern Plains. Conditions may also improve in Florida. But ongoing and expanding drought is possible across the Northwest, Puerto Rico, and parts of the Southern Plains west into New Mexico and Colorado.

Western #snowpack is still looking strong across most states, and #California and the #GreatBasin continue to see record-setting #snowfall. A lot can happen before the next dry season, but, statewide, California's snowpack is at 180% of the end-of-season (April 1) average.

Meanwhile, the #Willamette and coast watersheds in #Oregon have also seen big improvement this month. The Upper Arkansas in #Colorado and the Rio Grande-Mimbres watersheds in #NewMexico continue to struggle.

Check out the current #snowpack (left) compared to this time last year (right) from #USDA #NRCS. Across most of the #West, conditions are looking much better, especially in #California and the #GreatBasin. Many watersheds are close to, or above, the long-term average.

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Brief window between storms
tired of breaking trail
Headwind all the way home