Hey Bucc, the USFS likes my bristlecone pine pic!

[cartman]

I just found out they've been using a pic of mine on one of their pages. Although I'm not sure exactly where the bristlecone pines are in the pic.

:)

http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/regions/southwestern/ValleVidal/index.shtml

[terpkristin]

F'n cool, cartman! :)

/tk

[Antmeister]

Good job cartman. It is funny to see TheGreatCornholio quoted as the source of the picture.

[cartman]

It is funny to see TheGreatCornholio quoted as the source of the picture.

That's been my domain name since about 1997 or 1998. :D

[Buccaneer]

That is very cool, more than anything I've done. That area didn't ring a bell and when I looked at the map, I found that I had driven on the routes on both sides of the Natl Forest but never through it (except for skiing at Taos Valley).

[cartman]

That is very cool, more than anything I've done. That area didn't ring a bell and when I looked at the map, I found that I had driven on the routes on both sides of the Natl Forest but never through it (except for skiing at Taos Valley).

Thanks! I didn't even realize that they were using it until someone else stumbled across it and forwarded it to me.

It's definitely not an area you'd stumble upon. You have to want to go there. On the Raton side, it is a 30 mile gravel road to get there, and from the Taos side it is 10 miles of barely paved road followed by 15 miles of gravel road. The area has been described as New Mexico's Yellowstone. The mountain in the distance is Wheeler Peak.

Thankfully, the federal legislation was just passed a couple of weeks ago to prevent any oil or gas exploration in the area. This is the area where we try to go camping every summer. It would have been ruined with wells and roads put in all over the place.

[SirFozzie]

BRISTLEcones???

(Skydawg faints)

Sorry, had to be done, tradition and all that :)

Please note, I am not actually quoting SkyDog, nor is the above a post that he made :)