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Nov 8, 2010 at 8:15 pm #1265278

Chris Kopp
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Locale: SoCal

Hi everyone. I did the loop trail in Spring Mountains outside of Las Vegas last week. It was an 18ish mile trip that passes over Mt. Charleston. The weather was perfect with highs in the 50s/60s and a low in the upper 30s. A little bit of snow on north facing slopes. I do ecological research in California's White Mountains so this was nice opportunity to see another Great Basin mountain range. I will post a trip I did in that range in another thread. Pictures were taken with my Motorola Droid phone. Enjoy!

Intersection of Trail Canyon TR and South Loop TR.

Area that burned in 1945?

Mt. Charleston

Looking east from top of Mt. Charleston.

Summit sign

Looking south from top of Mt. Charleston.

Grassy ridge south of Mt. Charleston

Nov 8, 2010 at 9:25 pm #1662409

Eugene Smith
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Locale: Nuevo Mexico

Interesting looking area, this area is almost off the map to me, I've never heard of it. Is that a strand of juniper trees in the last image? Thanks for sharing this trip report.

Nov 8, 2010 at 9:31 pm #1662413

Chris Kopp
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Locale: SoCal

Glad you like it! The trees are Bristlecone Pines.

Nov 18, 2010 at 8:31 am #1665628

Tim Drescher
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Locale: Gore Range

I enjoyed this report as well. Nevada seems to have some hidden secrets.

From the latest Backpacker magazine:

"Gnarled, twisted bristlecone pines even look their age. See the 3,000 year old Raintree, the oldest living thing in Nevada, three miles into the 20 mile Mt. Charleston National Recreation Trail loop which winds through the biggest colony of bristlecones in the intermountain West."

It goes on to say that you can bag the three highest peaks in southern Nevada. Mummy, Charleston and Griffith.

Nov 18, 2010 at 1:09 pm #1665705

Hikin’ Jim
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Locale: Orange County, CA, USA

Good pix. Thanks for the TR.

HJ

Nov 19, 2010 at 3:09 pm #1666170

Tom Clark
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Locale: East Coast

Looked like some great country with a range of landscapes.
Thanks

Nov 19, 2010 at 10:47 pm #1666284

Chris Kopp
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Locale: SoCal

Speaking of old trees. Nevada used to have the worlds oldest non-clonal organism in the Prometheus tree, also a Bristlecone Pine. The tree was located near Wheeler Peak in the Snake Range (Great Basin National Park) and was cut down in 1964 and was at least 4,862 years old. The oldest living tree is now the Methuselah tree in California's White Mountains.
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