The bare trunks have stood for year, and have weathered to a silver-gray. On July 26 an object-lesson in the formation of ghose trees was presented to the guests at Paradise Valley. Someone, toasting marshmallows, left his fire burning. Soon a pillar of smoke was winding up from the hillsides, and before that little fire burned itself out, half a dozen new ghost trees had been created. Just because a tree is surrounded by snow is no reason for believing that it will not burn.
Alpine firs have thin and pitchy bark, and the needles of all conifers burn like tinder.
By S. B. Jones-Ranger Naturalist. One of these was a four-petalled lily. This and the eight-petalled flower fade into insignificance before an avalanche lily discovered last week. The new find is almost a quadruple lily. It has twenty-one petals.