The bark on this young trees is smooth, grey, with resin blisters. It will become orange-red, rough and fissured as it ages.
"Happy the man with the freedom
and the love to climb one of these superb
trees in full flower and fruit.
"How admirable the forest-work of Nature is then seen to be, as
one makes his way up through the midst of the broad, fronded
branches, all arranged in exquisite order around the trunk,
like the whorled leaves of lilies, and each branch and
branchlet about as strictly pinnate as the most symmetrical
fern-frond."
John Muir (1838 - 1914)