Month: November 2004

  • Weather for the Week of Nov. 29 – Dec 5

    Tuesday: Mostly sunny. Highs at 5000 feet 44 to 54 with overnight lows down to the low teens (12 – 19 degrees). ..at 8000 feet the expected high is from 40 to 50 degrees with overnight lows down to 0 degrees farenheit! Wednesday: Mostly sunny Wednesday but expect some clouds by Wednesday night. Highs at…

  • Climbing The Dihedral Wall: Adventure Climbing El Capitan

    From the very first days, Yosemite has long been the premier place climbers to prove their worth. Whether free climbing on El Capitan or bouldering in any one of the fields around the Valley the heart of climbing beats in Yosemite like in no other place in the world. In this months issue of Climbing…

  • Lower Yosemite Falls

    I took this picture one spring day a a few months before my son was born. Using a slighty slower shutter speed than the camera’s meter called for and a tripod enabled me to blur the quickly falling water and still catch the spray. Although there were a lot of people taking pictures of the…

  • Yosemite & the Eastern Sierra

    Amazon: In the tradition of California the Beautiful, Galen Rowell’s best-selling celebration of the natural beauty of the Golden State, comes Yosemite & the Eastern Sierra, featuring stunning color images by outdoor photographer Gary Crabbe. Here is a fresh look at the wonders of Yosemite National Park (visited by more than three million people each…

  • 20th Annual Chef’s Holidays

    Yosemite will host its 20th annual Chef’s Holidays in Yosemite from Jan. 9 through Feb. 5. The eight-session program brings some of the best chefs in California, Texas and New York to the park for three days of culinary talks, demonstrations and dinners. The dates are Jan. 9-11, Jan. 11-13, Jan. 16-18, Jan. 18-20, Jan.…

  • Happy Thanksgiving

    Happy Thanksgiving from all of us here at Yosemite Blog.

  • Mono Lake: An Early Morning Photo Destination

    The Reporter: “Come on, we have to get there before the sun gets up,” she urged. It should have been me doing the urging. I was the one who had requested the wake-up call. I was the one who wanted to take photos of sunrise over Mono Lake.” Just outside Yosemite’s eastern boundry, Mono Lake…

  • Great Photos at nextReality.net

    Great photos of Yosemite up over at nextReality.net.

  • Dan Mitchell’s Great Yosemite Photos

    Dan Mitchell has some great photos of Yosemite Valley and the High Country up on his site. Worth checking out.

  • Original Yosemite Land Protected for Future Generations

    MercuryNews.com (free registration required): “A picturesque landscape of sugar pine, incense cedar and white fir trees adjacent to Yosemite National Park’s western boundary near El Portal will be protected from development under a deal announced Monday. Owned by the same family since 1925, the 730-acre Ransome Ranch was purchased by the Pacific Forest Trust, an…