Season’s last tour to the Lake? feeling kinda silly standing here on the beach on skis. But I did ski almost five miles today, almost all of it on snow, just a few inches of damp powder on bare ground.
The last day of skiing on the shore, searching out patches that get close enough to the Lake for a view, after a season that lasted from October to April.
Ponderosa Pines (Pinus ponderosa) grow at lower elevations here, along the lakeshore, but are otherwise a West Slope species. Jeffrey Pines are more common here east of the Crest and at higher elevations, and the two are at times difficult to distinguish between, and in fact will hybridize with each other.