After descending to timberline on the western slope, the trail leads through evergreen forests, along the North Inlet to Grand Lake.
The largest lakes of Wild Basin--Thunder Lake and Bluebird Lake--are both above timberline but are easily accessible by trails.
Above timberline the bare mountain masses rise from one to three thousand feet, often in sheer precipices.
Nowhere else is the timberlinestruggle between the trees and the winds more grotesquely exemplified or its scene more easily accessible to visitors of average climbing ability.
By the time Timberline and me would get up and swab the cobwebs and cinders out of our eyes, Katooter would be half way up the gulch and lighting out like a freckled Greek slave hunting for a clothing store.
Nine years ago, I and Timberline Monroe and Katooter Lemons, from Zion, struck the Feverish Hornet up on Slippery Ellum.
I am hardening myself to railway traveling, like Timberline Jones' man, so that I can stand the return journey to Laramie in July.
Then what was her purpose in climbing to this old ghost town which lay just at timberline on the edge of a mountain wilderness where Cuso was held at bay?
The days I spent above timberline were the most wonderful of all.
The most striking thing I discovered about the timberline trees was their irregularity.
Around and just below timberline are many lakes, and miles of marshy, boggy land.
The sheep climbed where the wind would keep their tables, spread with sweet cured grass, swept free of snow, and had placed the barrier of timberline drifts between them and their enemies!
That was how I came to be camped at timberline above Allen's Park when the big forest fire set the region south of it ablaze.
The searching party found it almost impossible to battle their way above the timberline and after many ineffectual attempts, they returned, nearly frozen, without tidings of the lost girl.
From timberline I surveyed the prospect ahead and hesitated.
Above timberline were the ptarmigan, always easy targets for a well-aimed stone.
I got out my battered old rifle, so like the timberline trees, and boldly set out for "b'ar.
Just above the timberline my horse pricked his ears toward a sheltered cove and gave a little whinny.
I was interested to learn if the little haycocks were blown away by the timberline gales, so returned later, not really expecting to find them.
I was becoming numb, but in half an hour I safely reached the dwarf trees at timberline and plunged through them to a dense grove of spruce.
Soon she had left the tortured, wind-twisted timberline trees far behind.
I'll go on down to Timberline Cabin for help, and come back.
And so they came to Timberline Cabin, and Albert Edward Cobbins was in the doorway.
One day she climbed the Long's Peak trail to timberline, and had tea at Timberline Cabin with Albert Edward Cobbins.
Albert Edward Cobbins, Englishman, erstwhile sailor, adventurer and gentleman, was the keeper of Timberline Cabin, and the loneliest man in the Rockies.
She knew that she must be not more than an hour's walk fromTimberline Cabin, and Albert Edward, and his biscuits and tea.
Turned cold with dread, he saw it hit the timberline with a great crashing, and the dark forms of the trees were dashed up by the running mass of stones and then swallowed in the boiling front of the slide.
Then, far off, he would hear a wave of the storm begin, wash across a crest, thunder in a canyon, and then break on the timberline with a prolonged and mighty roaring.
Yonder was the dark streak of the timberline again.
He rode a fine bay gelding, and had stopped Bill to ask some questions about the region above the timberline because he was drifting south and intended to cross the summits.
He was approaching thetimberline where trees stand as high as a man and little higher.
I was at the timberline on the other side about daybreak today.
At timberline the growing season is short, but the herbs and grasses which this animal eats spring up and mature in a matter of weeks.
As mentioned above, marmots occupy a tremendous altitudinal range, reaching from above timberline down into the Transition Life Zone.
An inhabitant of all life zones up to timberline (Arctic-Alpine).
Illustration: pika] Far up on the mountainside, above timberline but below the eternal snows, a great field of talus rests uneasily on the massive slopes of bedrock.
This same species lives at timberline in the high mountains of desert country and is also found at or near sea level far north of the Arctic Circle.
Illustration: Habitat map] Habitat: All life zones up to timberline in places which have a sufficient food supply and proper cover.
Already weak, they did not get down to timberline the first day.
Unfamiliar withtimberline trees, two of the dogs in dodging the bears leaped into the matted growths.
To these timberline drifts, when fringed with flowers, the mother and the cubs sometimes came.
At timberline there were clusters of thickly matted, low-growing trees with open spaces between.
But sheep make occasional lowland excursions, while goats stay close to the skyline crags and the eternal snows, descending less frequently below the timberline except in crossing to an adjoining ridge or peak.
Suddenly the trail broke off to the right for five or six hundred feet into the woods, as though Old Timberline had remembered an acquaintance whom he must see again.
From this point I trailed Old Timberline forward and eastward, and near noon I caught a glimpse of him on the summit of the Divide.
Old Timberline started down into a canon as though to descend a gully diagonally to the bottom.
So long as Old Timberline remained on the moorland summit of this treeless ridge, I could not get close to him.
I hoped that some time I should be able to photograph Old Timberline at twenty-five or thirty feet.
Arriving at a steep incline on the snowy slope, Old Timberline sat down on his haunches and coasted.
After Old Timberline discovered that I had circled behind him, he knew that I knew where he was and what he was doing.
For three days I followed Old Timberlinethrough his home territory and camped on his trail at night.
In a scattered tree-growth the tracks turned abruptly to the right, then led back eastward, close to the first line of tracks, as though Old Timberline had turned to meet any one who might be following him.
Here we lay as best we could, waiting for another day, without fire of course, as we were now many miles beyond the timberline and without much to cover us.
Abies Pattoniana, the upper edge of the timberline on the portion of the Cascades opposite the Sound.
In some sheltered camp nest on the edge of the timberline one may lie snug and warm, but after the long shuffle on snowshoes we may have to wait more than a month ere the heavens open and the grand show is unveiled.
They range from the plains to timberlinethroughout the Rocky Mountains.
Material fromTimberline Valley, an area in which Carl et al.
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