Deep Dives Into The Archives: Here, there be Giants!

  • [Photo by Patric Hedlund]

    [Photo by Patric Hedlund]

By Kaylin Paschall, TME

Hidden among the canopy of Pine Mountain Club’s variety of pine trees lives an ancient sentinel of gigantic proportions.

The Jim Whitener tree was said to be the oldest living…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

Photo captions:

An image from The Mountain Enterprise Archives of the Whitener Tree in 1973 as Sharon Smith, Bob Marshall and Tony Intiso stand by

More recent photos of the three taken in 2017, with Dave Nelson taking measurements

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This is part of the August 12, 2022 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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