I’m finally catching up on my email and one of the great photos and emails I came across was this one from Wallace Wade. Here’s what Wallace had to say. I am a new visitor to both your website and to Yosemite. I went there for the first time last week, June 16-20. I have [...]
Smithsonian has a good article on Watkins, the 19th-century landscape photographer who was so good they named a “Mount” after him. It took a team of mules to carry his gear, which included 18 by 22 inch glass plate negatives and darkroom chemicals. Link PS – hi to everyone from Brian in Arizona // Share|
Looks like the unstoppable Kelly Perkins has recently made another ascent in Yosemite, with the help of Yosemite Mountaineering School guide, Scott Stowe. Since getting a heart transplant in 1995, Kelly has been traveling the world, climbing significant peaks in an effort to promote organ donation. She’s a great inspiration, not only for organ transplant [...]
A fire that has been burning along the Tuolumne River has moved into a section of Yosemite west of Hetch Hetchy. The Modesto Bee: “A fire that’s been burning in the Stanislaus National Forest for eight days spread into Yosemite National Park on Saturday, according to authorities. Lightning started about 10 small fires in the [...]
Sometimes, when I’m picking a photo for Photo of the Day, I’ll make up a title to go along with the picture if it only has a camera assigned image number. Today it was too hard. What would I title it? Beautiful Lake? Really Blue Sky? Awesome Photo? Awesome photo works. Hey Angela, awesome photo. [...]
It’s incredibly smokey, it’s hard to breathe and it sucks right now with the smoke from all the fires. The real one close to the park is the Aurora Fire close to Mariposa and there’s another down by the Tuolumne. If you’re interested in seeing where all the fires in California are right now here’s [...]
There are some newsworthy happenings on the speedclimbing and running fronts happening right now in Yosemite. To back up a bit for those who don’t know about these obscure domains of human endeavour, some folks like to compete against a clock (you’ve perhaps heard of the Boston Marathon or the Iditarod?) and some of those [...]
The Yosemite Museum is currently hosting a superb exhibit on the history of climbing at the park. Yosemite’s textured granite and die-hard climbers have made the park one of the world’s premier destinations for this sport. Many innovations were developed during Camp 4 bull-sessions. In addition to the expected Big Wall displays, the one that [...]
Smoke from fires in the surrounding region have prompted an air quality alert to be issued from the San Joaquin Valley Pollution Control District and the National Weather Service. AM PDT TUE JUN 24 2008 SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, KERN COUNTY, MARIPOSA COUNTY, AND TUOLUMNE COUNTY AIR POLLUTION CONTROL DISTRICTS HAVE ISSUED AN AIR QUALITY ALERT [...]
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