This years early spring brought with it an unwelcome guest, an early fire season. This year the Sierra is extremely dry and already there are fires burning in and around Yosemite. The three fires listed below started the afternoon of May 18th when a monsoonal flow brought a mass of unstable air over the Sierra. [...]
The National Park Service in Yosemite is looking for anyone who may have seen or have information regarding Katrin Lehmann who was last seen below the Vernal Fall footbridge where she fell into the Merced River. Ms. Lehman is 31 years old, 6 foot tall, 150 pounds with light brown hair and brown eyes. Lehman [...]
Jason Armstrong didn’t give this photo a title when he posted it to Flickr but I can think of about a dozen things to call it. “Nice”, “Sweet”, “Beautiful shot”, “Fantastico!” and “Awesome” just to name a few. There’s one thing to call it that fits more than any other though, Photo of the Day. [...]
With Memorial Day fast approaching you might want to rethink your plans to visit the park if you haven’t already scored the elusive campsite or hotel reservation. Lodging Traffic is expected to be at an all time high as visitation has been up the last few months as people have been searching for “pocket-book friendly” [...]
The Tioga Road will be opening for traffic starting Wednesday, May 20th at 10:00 a.m. The road will be open to all vehicle traffic but there will be no commercial services open for a while yet. Gasoline will be available 24 hours per day (credit cards only). Additionally, the Tuolumne Meadows Campground, other campgrounds along [...]
Today’s Photo of the Day comes to us from a long time friend of Yosemite Blog, Marc Crumpler. Marc said he would have liked to have used his ND filter but there was too much mist from the Fall (Bridalveil) so he just did a quick shot with the CP. I think it came out [...]
Just in time for Memorial Day weekend, the cables are now up on Half Dome. Grab your gloves, some water and line up! National Park Service: “The cables allowing trail access for hikers to the summit of Half Dome are up and open for the season today, May 15, 2009. The Half Dome hike is [...]
For those wondering Highway 4 (Ebbetts Pass) and Highway 108 (Sonora Pass) are both officially open. Now, to get Tioga open.
You may think that because I haven’t been posting much while on my vacation I’ve been slacking, well not so! One need merely to take a look at the What’s New page to see all the interesting pages I’ve been adding over the past few days. If you feel there’s a topic we should cover [...]
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