Yosemite Blog

Year: 2008

  • 2008 Yosemite Sierra Visitors Guide Released

    There are lots of great resources for information on the Yosemite area but one of the best I’ve found is the Yosemite Sierra Visitors Guide. If you want one you’re in luck, the 2008 edition was just released and it’s awesome. Sierra Star: “The 2008 Yosemite Sierra Visitors Guide for the Mountain Area, produced by…

  • Park History Project

    Yosemite National Park Announces Launch of Oral History Project Participants sought for recorded sessions to document Yosemite area history currently titled “I Remember Yosemite…” Yosemite National Park has launched a multi-year oral history project to capture the stories of people who have helped shape, and whose lives have been shaped by, one of the nation’s…

  • Photo of the Day: Valley Sunset by Dale Carlson

    Today’s Photo of the Day comes from Dale Carlson who caught this really cool sunset over the veil of fog hanging over the Central Valley. Beautiful shot Dale. Photo by Dale Carlson via Flickr.

  • Reader Question: How much does it cost to get into Yosemite?

    Rainy wrote in: “My fiance and I are planning our first trip to Yosemite, how much does it cost to get in?” It’s only $20 per car to enter the park. That may seem a bit steep at first but the entrance fee is good for 7 days so that’s really less than $3 per…

  • Yosemite Association Art Contest

    The Yosemite Association invites you to submit a piece celebrating 25 years of free art classes in the park. The winning design (any media reducible to 2 dimensions) will be used on a tote bag, and honorable mentions will be displayed in the Art Center. For more info, write to yosemiteartcenter@sbcglobal.net or call (209)372-1442. Entries…

  • Photo of the Day: Bobcats by Raul Rodriquez

    Rollie, who works over at the Ahwahnee, sent in this set of photos of a bobcat that many visitors and employees have been seeing around the Valley. Great shots Rollie. Thanks for sending them in.

  • Salmon Not Returning to Mountain Rivers Could Mean Trouble

    State officials are worried about salmon populations in foothill rivers after recent counts showed a mere fraction are returning to spawn in their ancestral spawning grounds. KNTV: “The environmental consulting firm FishBio says just 1,158 adult salmon came back to spawn last year, compared with 5,672 fish in 2006. Since 2000, salmon counts on the…

  • Not Forgotten

    Thanks to everyone who has sent in a recent comment or dropped me an email with pictures or questions. I haven’t forgotten about you! I’ll be sending the emails around to our panel of experts and hopefully will have their responses up for you within the next could of days. Those of you that sent…

  • Photo of the Day: Moon Light over Half Dome by Ozcan Durgun

    I saw this photo in the sidebar this morning and thought “WoW! What a beautiful shot!” So here it is, today’s Photo of the Day, Moon light over Half Dome. I love the caption below the photo too. Totally sounds like something I’d do: “My wife and I were walking back from Mirror Lake to…

  • 20 miles from the nearest plowed road

    From the Tuolumne winter rangers — Wildlife: We had quite the wildlife sighting last Friday, as we got to watch a pine marten (a large member of the weasel family) try to catch a White-tailed Jackrabbit during the height of the snowstorm. The scene seemed to unfold in slow motion, as neither animal was able…