A Reader Writes

An alert camper from the Payette National Forest sent the editors at Rural Ways the above picture.  How did the snag, at left, the reader asked, get on top of the rock, at left, without leaving a hole in the ground where the root wad was?  The only answer we can think of is that the Payette has thin soils, big fires, and plenty of wind.  But we've never worked there, so we don't know.  The camper's second picture, below, does not tend to disprove our theory.  It is beautiful, though.