dad & krumholtz, on mt. tilton

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dad & krumholtz, on mt. tilton
dad & krumholtz, on mt. tilton

in 1962, my mom Alice Godfrey went west to take a summer field class in botany at the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab in Colorado -- for her class project, she wanted to study the krumholtz formations of conifers and other plants--stunted versions that grow right at the tree-line at high altitude & develop crazy shapes due to wind and etc:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krummholz

but she didn't have a car to get up to the high altitude locations!

thankfully, a young man named Ward Watt, at the Lab doing his first year of doctoral research on high-altitude butterflies, offered to give her a ride in his four-wheel-drive car -- so here's my dad, in that first summer when they met, looking surprisingly chipper on a miserable-looking rainy day on Mt. Tilton, posing in the krumholtz plants that mom was studying.

photo by mom

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Taken on: July 1, 1962
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