Up In The Spring Mountains
2026
Those Ponderosa Pines blanketing vast stretches of the Spring Mountains in Nevada, what magnificent trees.
You can’t help but admire them, not only for their height, towering well over a hundred feet. That’s their obvious grandeur. What’s easy for us to overlook is their age.
These trees can live for 600 years. Perhaps Coronado, de Vaca and other Spaniards tromping through the southwest in search of gold saw these same trees we see today as seedlings.
Back east, as the pilgrims curled around the tip of Cape Cod and headed toward the Massachusetts coast, our Ponderosa Pines here in the west were on a journey of their own.
Up they went, higher, higher, soaring straight into the cobalt blue Nevada sky.
They survived fierce mountain winds and shook off savage lightning strikes. Those trees were determined to live, always ready to gently remind us how small we all are.
