Above the chapel:

Yes, the beetles have reached here, too. Not too bad around the chapel, itself. We're guessing (hoping) the longer, colder winters at this elevation may protect some of those trees.

But down below, yeah.

This forest is starting to look like all the others.

I wonder about that rock, up there. How many trees has it seen grow, tower and then die in the time it has sat next to that depression pool? It and the springtime pool have probably been there since the last glaciers, what, 12,000 years ago?

That tree was probably 150-200 years old when it died. A premature death robbing it of maybe another 200 years? 300? So in twelve millennia, maybe two to three dozen generations of trees have grown here.

Should we weep because the latest generation is being cut so short?