Year: 2008
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Tioga Pass Plowing progress report
http://tenaya.ucsd.edu/tioga/ http://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/tioga.htm Tioga Road progress for May 8, 2008 Ending Location: Tioga Pass Average Snow depth: 6 feet (8 to 9 feet at Tioga Pass parking lots) Snow removal operations continue, including widening Tioga Road and working on utility roads and spur roads. Four avalanche zones remain. There is no estimated opening date for the…
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Photo of the Day: Firefall by Edie Howe-Byrne
Edie took this cool shot last night as a fire on the North rim of the Valley dropped sparks and embers down the cliff by Royal Arches. It was so great that it had to be Photo of the Day. I think this is my current favorite photo up on Flickr. Excellent work Edie. Class…
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Current Park Trail Conditions for May 9th 2008
The John Muir Trail between Clark Point and the top of Nevada Fall is closed for the winter. The Mist Trail to Nevada and Vernal Fall is open. The Four Mile Trail is closed for the winter just below Union Point. No expected opening date at this time. The Half Dome cables are down for…
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School Buses Crash in Yosemite
Just got this from the National Park Service. Two school buses from Yolo Middle School in Newman collided in a rear end collision about a mile north of the El Portal Road/Big Oak Flat Road intersection. Forty children were on board the two buses. Injuries are being described as minor to moderate. The children were…
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Firefalls 2008: Follow up.
Our friend Tom Lambert has a post up on his blog, YosemiteExplorer.com about the Royal Arches fire; In a nutshell, a fire was spotted on Monday night at that spot. Speculation is that climbers coming off the Royal Arches route lit it to get warm, and didn’t extinguish it properly. You can read Tom’s account…
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Firefalls 2008: Let the fire fall!
There was a fire on the north rim today, just west of Northdome and slightly east of Royal Arches Cascades. Tonight I noticed the light as I went out for a smoke, went and grabbed my camera and took several shots. Unfortunately I don’t have a wireless release and so had to resort to hand-holding…
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Tuolumne Meadows or Bridalveil Creek?
Kim writes in: “My boyfriend and I are planning a trip up North to Yosemite in August. We would like to stop in mid-week (Tue/Wed) and stay a couple of nights til Thur. As you probably know, reservations by now are impossible to obtain. It’s probably a blessing, for we’d rather avoid the high-traffic, crowded,…
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Photo of the Day: Upper Yosemite Fall by Loyd Schutte
Today’s Photo of the Day is actually another one of my photos that I took last week. This one is a nice shot of Upper Yosemite Fall. There was a little bit of upper atmosphere clouds early in the morning so it made a nice even light on the fall that really brought out the…
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Dogwoods Are in Full Bloom
The Dogwoods are probably one of my favorite things about Yosemite and something I don’t like to miss. Here’s a photo taken just the other day for all of you that can’t make it out to see the beautiful display they’re putting on right now. For those of you that can, hurry. A few of…
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Can I fish in the Merced?
Rick writes in: “Going up for my second time and staying at house keeping for the first…. Is fishing in the merced allowed? are there fish? Just curious, friend wants to take gear and I dont want to lug it around for naught.” Actually fishing in the Merced is allowed and you’d think, for the…