<p>Photos courtesy of Jake Bramante. View of the Scenic Point Trail on August 7, in Glacier National Park. This amazing dead tree was shaped by the winds from the west. The Blackfeet believed that the wind god "Old Man of the Winds" lived on the west side of the mountains and blew east which it does with great consistency. I still will never understand how any plants can survive on so little soil and rain on a rock such as this, no less a tree. Either way, I …

November 4, 2011