Bristlecone pines can be thousands of years old. They grow in some of the most remote, high altitude places. The White Mountains in California, along HWY 395, are well known for Bristlecones, but two of my favorite places are the forest in the glacial bowl at 10,000 feet above sea level beneath Wheeler Peak in Great Basin National Park near Baker, Nevada, and "Twisted Forest" in the Ashdown Gorge Wilderness area near Cedar Breaks National Monument. Most of the images in this gallery are from those two places. A few are from Bryce Canyon National Park. The forests in both places are very dense, and for that reason like a photographer's playground, or studio.