Pine Identification - Mt. Tallac summit trail, South Lake Tahoe, CA
I did the Mt. Tallac summit trail earlier this month and as I approached the scree field leading to the summit just after the technical end of treelike I saw THIS. I tried to reach out to the silviculturist at Lake Tahoe Basin Mgmt Unit for an ID and have been lurking the gymnosperm database but cannot get an ID because I didn't get a great close up of the branches. Seems like it could be a Foxtail pine? The nearest branches were still 15' overhead! Does anyone know what type of pine this is or if it's a Juniper? ( for spatial reference I am just over 5' tall ) Most photos here are looking southeast or north. The summit is visible right behind the tree (though not in these photos) and so it's dramatically by itself in open country with no other trees near it except what you see about 50ish feet downslope.
