Year: 2009
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Wildcat Fire Still Burning in Yosemite
View Larger Map The Wildcat fire is continuing to burn on the north side of the Tuolumne River between Pate Valley and Water Wheel Falls. The fire is burning primarily in Red Fir, Jeffery Pine and brush on very steep terrain. Since the fire started on Wednesday July 29, it has charred to 530 acres.…
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Grabbing a Bite to Eat (video)
Here’s a video Never2Gone on Youtube captured early one morning while camping in when a sow and 2 cubs decided to go digging through the garbage can right outside his tent in Curry Village for food.
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Snow in Yosemite in August? Grab Your Camera
The National Weather Service has issued a Severe Weather Alert for the central Sierra (including Yosemite). An unseasonable low pressure is moving in over Central California and bringing with it some wild weather. Thunderstorms are expected for the foothills and Central Valley along with snow at higher elevations down to 8500 feet. If you’re going…
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Photo of the Day: 0958 by Thom Schroeder
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Yosemite Trees Getting Smaller
Seventy years ago things were different. The most of the roads in the country were dirt, the information super highway hadn’t even been dreamt of and trees in Yosemite were bigger. So what’s the cause of the decline of big trees in Yosemite? Researchers from University of California Davis believe the same thing making trees…
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Morning Shot Aug 5 2009
Today’s Morning Shot is a weird image from the webcam I happened to see a little bit ago when I glanced up. Between the rising sun and the setting moon (see image below) this weird effect was captured by the Turtleback Dome webcam. Today’s Forecast: Some clouds but mostly sunny. Daytime high around 89F. Overnight…
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@TheYosemiteBlog Twitters for 2009-08-04
Good morning and thanks for following @TheYosemiteBlog – news and information from http://www.yosemiteblog.com # Webrangers, Jr Ranger online program http://www.nps.gov/webrangers/ (via @jnpa) # Don't believe everything you see on the web about health insurance reform. Pls share: http://bit.ly/maVkF #healthreform (via @whitehouse) # Looking at 3 different radar images. One shows rain, other 2 don't. WTH.…
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Photo of the Day: Sunset, Mount Conness and Lower Young Lake by G. Dan Mitchell
Yesterday we featured Phil King’s “Sunset on Mount Conness” as Photo of the Day, today we have G. Dan Mitchell’s take. Though both are of the same subject matter, they each have a different feeling and tone. Which one do you like best? Nice work, Dan. Thanks for posting it in the Yosemite Blog Group…
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Man vs. Sierra
Bear Grylls from the popular show “Man vs. Wild” takes on the rugged Sierra Nevada.
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Morning Shot Aug 4 2009
Today’s Morning shot is an awesome shot of dawn breaking from the top of Half Dome shot by Popebe on Flickr. Gotta love the way the man in the photo seems to be above the clouds. Nice work, Popebe. Today’s forecast: Cloudy. Chance of rain. Highs around 80F. Overnight lows around 58F. I checked the…