The Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest!
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2016
- Exploring a forest on the remote Nevada/California border that is home to the oldest trees on Earth! These beautifully warped, twisted trees are up to 5,000 years old...making them the oldest living species on the entire planet. The oldest tree in this grove is 5,066 years old and the second oldest is over 4800...but they are unmarked, to protect them from vandals.
When I was working in Bakersfield, used to go up into the Sierra Nevada on weekend campouts.
Went on a hike up Sirretta Peak, near a place called Big Meadows in Kern County and discovered Foxtail Pines, which also look knarly and have purple cones.
Foxtail Pines very rare also.
A blast from the past. My college geology class took a field trip to the White Mountains and the bristle cone forest years ago. We also found trilobite fossils in some of the nearby shale deposits. Very interesting ecology in that area. That guy - Methuselah, from the Bible, was said to have lived 969 years - a mere whippersnapper compared to the tree that bears his name. Cheers.
Amazing how photography has advanced. I remember as very young kid my parents having a Kodak Brownie camera, black and white of course. Keep shooting videos Wonder Hussy!
Im very old ,And Warped,But I do watch all your videos.Thank you
This is a really wonderful video and I thank you very much 👍☮️
Hey Thanks! I've read about this place and always wondered what the grove and terrain looked like. Yes, they count the rings and use something called Carbon 14 analysis that gives a very accurate age to living and once living things. I'm still trying to wrap my head around how old these trees are. They lived through heat, fire from lighting strike, high winds, ice and snow, very major earthquakes and global things like super volcano eruption and meteor strikes! Methuselah and other trees were two thousand years old during the times of ancient Rome and Greece...
I know!!! It's so amazing, I freaking love these trees. A group of artists are even making a giant metal sculpture called Methuselah, and bringing it to Burning Man this year. I will definitely be checking that out!!
WOW! that is one place I have wanted to visit and I still can. Most of my life has been in CA. and AZ. Spent many weekends in the Superstition Mountains! I love the Desert but moved to TN. about 11 years ago. I think its time to go back. Thanks for your wonderful videos!
I dig these videos! We were just up there this summer my buddy hated it. It's dificult to find people that enjoy exploring.
it's such a cool place!
Love all your videos , keep doing them.
Nothing like a good bristlecone in the morning.
TP substitute?
Best one you ever did
After sundown is when lions enjoy 'crunchy on the outside, soft centered' tidbits. I enjoy your wildness.
Love all your videos.
Thanks for the tour madam
ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO!!!!!💙💙💙💙
Fantastic!Love the music!73s
Thanks so much for sharing this video! 3 years ago I climbed Mt. Whitney, and had also planned on hiking the Methuselah Trail on the way home, but by the time I got to the visitor center it was getting late and I was super exhausted, so I didn't do the hike to the bristlecone pines, a decision I've regretted ever since, as I now live very far away from the area. Nice to be able to hike vicariously through your video!
been there during the winter, totally agree who knows which tree it is. I always stay at the Bristlecone motel in Big Pine
wow,very pretty area.cool video.
WOW! How cool is that? I thought I knew a lot about our Forestation throughout the States,but I have never heard of the Methuselah Walk,or the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest. I LOVE SHIT LIKE THIS! You always have the coolest hikes,you have added a few to my future Westward trips, that's for sure. Thank you SOOoo much for sharing,always look forward to your updates,and thank you again for all the work you put into your channel.Will most likely hit you up one day for directions to some of your "spots". You're the Best! C-Ya!,,,,Peace!
Glad you enjoyed!! :-)
You probably noticed the camp grounds at Grandview on the way up there. Beautiful place to camp and usually not too crowded...
You are surely in Sasquatchs neighborhood! Keep on the lookout.
interesting conifers Sara..Thank You.. Some of my Ohio family homesteaded out west and are buried across the mountain there in Poleta..this vid really takes me back to when I was initally acquainted with YA'....
Happy Valentines Sweetheart...Love Kelly...!
very impressive
Nice, need to get there also
I Love the White mountains. The peak is one of the easiest 14,000 footers to climb, and what a view! You can see from Mt Whitney to Yosemite.
Really digging your channel, btw.
thanks!
Many of these beautiful trees were anchor chained in the west.
So sad :(
I remember visiting the grove as a young kid sometime in the mid sixties . As best I can recall the 2 trees were the Methuselah and the other was the patriarch. At the time they were both marked. Will have to look back through old slides to see If any photos exist.
wow hard to imagine something living that old
You can tell Sarah is a bit younger in this video... but she is so gorgeous and interesting as always.
I really like the White Mountains.Checkout Patriarch Grove sometime.
Perhaps it is the tree pictured on the cover of the magazine....
I missed you
Clonal,...no seeds? They are the champs for sure!
When you consider the lifespan of these trees, we are just mayflies. Oh and its called dendro chronology I think
At one point towards the end of the video you walk right past Methuselah ;)
That's one of my areas to set up telescopes for viewing the night sky. High, clear and dark during nights of the new moon.
Your videos are great, you certainly find many cool areas to explore, it might be out of your way but you should check out Havasupai falls some time.
It's been on my list for a LONG time! I just have to get the permit in time for next spring...now's the time to do it, I guess! Thanks for the reminder :)
Researcher Don Currey in 1964 got his tree ring borer stuck in a tree and cut it down. It turned out to be 5,000 years old, the oldest known living thing
Look for girth!
I like it when you breath hard! :P
How much pain and suffering did the tree experience ?
How old a tree is count the rings and it tells if grew alot in a year like lots of water the ring be wider...
Two bloody Philistines !
You walked past it at -------.
Mother natures bonsai
Have you considered giving tours of these different locations, aside from the nude location photo shoots? I've been to Vegas a couple times, not my scene, but having someone take me to these different hot springs and other destinations would be really cool. Especially with someone as laid back as you.
I've thought about it and it's something I'm definitely interested in doing!
You'd be great at it!
I own a Sikorsky S-76B that holds 12 people - This is what you need for tours and for quick exploration. On cold mornings I spotted the steam from hot pools of water that are yet un-mapped and 30 miles from any roads. The real cool hot springs are the ones you can only fly too. Sahra, you need a pilots license trust me! There is too much your missing out on down there at ground level. Learn to fly girl!
that sounds AMAZING!
Methuselah is unmarked because of the Prometheus scandal.
In 1964 the US Forest Service issued a permit to a graduate student from North Carolina allowing him to legally cut down an old Bristlecone pine known as Prometheus. It was growing on the slopes of Wheeler Peak in northeastern Nevada. After it was cut down, it was determined that Prometheus was almost 5200 years old (according to a retired UC Berkeley forestry professor who had aged the tree at the time). That means the forest service had issued a permit to cut down the oldest living thing on earth.
The forest service tried to cover it up, but word leaked out and public outrage led to several decisions in an attempt to protect the remaining trees. One of them was not to identify any of the ancient trees in either the White Mountains of California or the Snake Range in Nevada. It also eventually led to the creation of The Great Basin National Park.
Thanks for the backstory!
Don't you ever wonder why everything in the desert is abandoned
Hi
3,000 BC was before the Pyramids of ancient Egypt.
They wouldn't be carbon dating the trees as that typical works only after the organic matter has been dead a substantial amount of time. They would be counting the rings in the Plug
Why not wear hiking boots, :-)
Clonal means that they are endowed with Clonal Bodies (Think DNA) Or; they can reproduce other Bristlecones. I have never been close enough to them to give one a hug.
ahhh I see! thanks!
Dendrochronology or tree ring fating
I want to be just like you when I grow up...lol...figuratively...lol...I'm sure I'm older than you. You are one of the most awesome woman I've ever seen! Hope your meditation trip is going well and you got some well deserved rest and sleep! Can not wait to see what's up next! Thank you for everything and thank you in advance :)
Thank you so much!
You're back!!! Yay!!! Hope you are feeling well, rested and centered. Missed ya!
This government is trying to ignore these trees.
dendrochronologist is what you're looking for.
there's the problem, maybe the tree's are to shy to have a pretty naked person around them.
Do you have a job
yeah I'm a self-employed freelance model! I make my own schedule, so I usually work as much as I need to to cover my bills and savings, etc...then I take off and explore :-)
And, I must say, you do all that you do very well and are always interesting.
Angelina Jolie...Bahahaha
I'm a hater.... #brangelexit #schadenfreude
Agreed!
How about Betty White..she is from an earlier era.
why do you not show your sister, i bet she is almost as beautifull as you.
+jerry gray my sister is shy and prefers to stay behind the scenes
actually better looking and she doesn't strip