The short, blue-green, single needles of the red fir grow in a brush-like manner. Very symmetrical, the trees are called “Silver Tips” in the commercial Christmas tree market.
The trunks curve at their base due to the heavy snowfall which bends the saplings downhill, flat to the ground. In the spring the young trees curve up, but the bend remains, and persists throughout the life of the tree. Curved trunks can also be found in other species of trees, such as mountain hemlock.
CURVED TREE TRUNK
RED FIR
LASSEN VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARK
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(1.4 miles)
36 SUMMIT LAKE lies on the east side of the road with entrance roads to the North and South Campgrounds, 0.1 mile apart. The lake is so named because it lies at the very summit of a divide between the Feather River drainage to the south and the Pit River drainage to the north.