The name of Trementina came from the pitch of the pinon tree which was used by the Spanish Americans as a folk medicine and a substitute for chewing gum.
They had risen some four hundred feet and were now into tighter aspen stands, well above all pinon trees.
Them she had heard approaching, and in plenty of time for her to leave the road and rest behind a handy pinon tree (she refused to think of it as hiding, exactly).
To that end he first of all climbed the tallest pinon tree in sight; a tree that stood on a rise of ground apart from its brothers.
The trails they followed--little more than animal tracks--became slippery and they were thankful for the shelter of the closely growing pinon trees.
To the left, between her and the cliff, were three stunted pinon trees.
This was lonely country, nothing but lots of sagebrush, a few tufts of yucca and bear grass, here and there a misplaced juniper or pinon tree that belonged to the highlands.
Along both sides of the road we found many pinon trees with cones bursting with pine nuts.
In addition to ponderosa forests, participants had the opportunity to see many varieties of cacti, pinon trees, juniper trees and elk.
Mr. Torres said he had hidden in pinon trees since the escape and that searchers once had come close to him, according to Captain Denko.