They really were that purple; I was amazed by them. Often purple tones don't capture right in my photos (they tend to look more bluish instead), so I'm glad that photo turned out well.
I tried some searches to find out what kind of pine trees those are. There are other pines with purple cones, but I didn't find any which have the shape of the ones I saw. So it's still a mystery.
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