TAMARACKS ON SAN ANTONIO PEAK 



Standing in luxurious forests or huddled together in 

 irregular groups on the wind-swept ridges, Tamaracks 

 occur on all our highest mountain peaks not the eastern 

 tree (Larix, also called tamarack or hackmatack) with 

 its deciduous leaves and slender stem, but a true pine, 

 majestic and strong, with 



"Huge trunks! and each particular trunk a growth 

 Of intertwisted fibres serpentine, 

 Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved." 



Wordsworth. 



