Summary[edit] Description: Looking out over the Rough Creek Valley from a break in the foliage, appx. 8 miles from the trailhead at Fighting Creek Gap. Sweet Ridge is on the left, and Miry Ridge and main crest of the Smokies are in the distance. The snow-capped summit of Silers Bald is in the distance on the right. Trees are Pinus pungens. Author Horace Kephart termed this area "Godforsaken" due to its remoteness. Date: 1 March 2008. Source: Own work. Author: Brian Stansberry.
Description: Pinus pungens tree having a rough time growing out of the rocks. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. Date: 25 March 2010, 11:44. Source: 019. Author: Mark Levisay.
Description: Pinus pungens, Ravens Roost, Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia. 37°56'00"N 78°57'11"W, 970m altitude. Date: 9 August 2006, 07:29. Source: Blue Ridge Parkway. Author: Tim Menzies from Morgantown, West Virginia. Other versions: Cropped from original. Camera location37° 56′ 00″ N, 78° 57′ 11″ WView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 37.933333; -78.953056.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Table-mountain Pine Pinus pungens at around 800 m (2,600 feet) above sea level along the Ridge Trail on the northeast side of Old Rag Mountain within Shenandoah National Park, in Madison County, Virginia. Date: 21 June 2017, 14:56:42. Source: Own work. Author: Famartin. Camera location38° 33′ 16.72″ N, 78° 18′ 13.25″ WView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 38.554644; -78.303681.
Summary[edit] Description: The Snake Den Ridge Trail ascending the crest of Snake Den Ridge in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, in the southeastern United States. Tree at right side of trail is Pinus pungens, with Picea rubens foliage at the extreme right. The ridgetops are too narrow and the soil is often too acidic to support large wooded plants, paving the way for rhododendron thickets. Date: 2 May 2008. Source: Own work. Author: Brian Stansberry.
