#arborglyphs

[purenonsens]

Two kinds of love🌳💚

I constantly try to find the oldest tree-carved date in nearby forest - so far the second photo is most likely it, even w/o the actual date, if only by how the text expanded over time (hand for size - the letter is two thumbs wide!). Ironically, not far from it the love clearly didn't last as long...

[pcttrailsidereader]

In the Oregon/Washington volume of The Pacific Crest Trailside Reader, Bob Cox introduces us to the iconic personality of Cyrus Bingham, a bigger-than-life Forest Ranger in the early 1900s.  As Bingham wandered the high country of the Central Oregon Cascades, he left a series of arboglyphs (tree carvings).  By their very nature, arbogylphs are temporary … dependent upon a living entity for their longevity.  Some still remain for the most dedicated sleuths (Cox located some 30 beginning with his first discovery in 1968).  Above are some representations of several of the carvings that Cox discovered.

For those of you who are hiking in the Waldo Lake and Cowhorn Mountain area of the PCT, keep your eyes open for traces of this past . . . a slowly disappearing forest artifact.

[gwydionmisha]

The Disappearing Arborglyphs Carved by Sheepherders Across the American West

Basque immigrants inscribed jokes, names, and historical happenings on aspen trees.

[qupritsuvwix]

The Disappearing Arborglyphs Carved by Sheepherders Across the American West

Basque immigrants inscribed jokes, names, and historical happenings on aspen trees.

[pcttrailsidereader]

The final Oregon peak in our review of high spots along the Oregon Cascades as transected by the PCT is Cowhorn Mountain, the halfway point between Diamond Peak and Mt. Thielsen. It stands at a modest 7,664 feet.  As noted in our profile of Mt. Thielsen (to the south), the region originally had Little and Big Cowhorn Mountains, but the cowhorn shaped spire fell from Little Cowhorn during a 1911 storm that hit the area, and these mountains were renamed.  Big Cowhorn was renamed Mt. Thielsen, and Little Cowhorn was changed to Cowhorn Mountain.  The PCT is routed over the southern flank of Cowhorn Mountain.

Another notable slice of history that relates to Cowhorn Mountain and this region is the presence of ‘arborglyphs’.

In the Oregon/Washington volume of The Pacific Crest Trailside Reader, Bob Cox introduces us to the iconic personality of Cyrus Bingham, a bigger-than-life Forest Ranger in the early 1900s.  As Bingham wandered the high country of the Central Oregon Cascades, he left a series of arboglyphs (tree carvings).  By their very nature, arbogylphs are temporary … dependent upon a living entity for their longevity.  Some still remain for the most dedicated sleuths (Cox located some 30 beginning with his first discovery in 1968).  Above are some representations of several of the carvings that Cox discovered.

For those of you who are hiking in the Waldo Lake and Cowhorn Mountain area of the PCT, keep your eyes open for traces of this past … a slowly disappearing forest artifact.

[thepersonal-ad-blog]

In the early 1900s, a migration of Basque shepherds came to the United States. The shepherds were often alone in the woods for days, weeks, even months at a time. To express their loneliness, they would carve the objects of their desire into birch trees like this one. We can now study these arborglyphs.

Circa 1925 - 1935

Images Courtesy of the University of Nevada’s Basque Library and the Photographer Ken Proper

[aref-adib]

#arborglyphs , tree carvings on the bark of a beech tree (at Hampstead Heath)

[besmirchthis]

ah, yes, Lawrence Orr Linton.

the ‘LOL’ trees.