Yosemite Blog

Year: 2009

  • Yosemite Receives $5.8 million Check

    What would you do with $5.8 million? That’s the question Yosemite National Park officials are asking themselves after the nonprofit Yosemite Fund presented them with a check for that amount Saturday. $5.8 million can do a lot. Already this year the Yosemite Fund paid for the rehabilitation of the Half Dome Overlook improving pedestrian and…

  • Yosemite Accounts for 25% of Annual Search and Rescue Costs

    A NPS helo brings in a load of SAR gear before beginning a “rope down”. Photo by Brian Zambrano. A report by two researchers in the field of wilderness medice have come to some interesting conclusions. Yosemite seems to account for 1/4 of Annual NPS Search and Rescue costs at nearly $1.2 million in 2005.…

  • Tioga Pass Opens Again

    Tioga Pass is open again this morning for the fourth time this year. After the initial opening in May the East-West thoroughfare through Yosemite’s high country has closed and opened once after the Big Meadow Fire closed the road and two more times after the recent snow storms. The pass shouldn’t be closing anytime soon…

  • Tioga Still Closed But Almost Ready to Open Again

    Looks like Tioga Pass if plowed and ready for traffic again. No word on an opening date though. I’d guess really soon. You can see in the image above the sun is melting the snow causing rivulets of water to run across the road.

  • Half Dome Cables Come Down

    After this weeks storms National Park Service officials have decided to go ahead and take the cables down on Half Dome. The cables will be replaced next May as weather conditions permit.

  • Aliens Invade Tioga Pass errr…Maybe

    “It appears, Captain. We’re dealing with a life form comprised of pure energy. Life without form or substance.” Ok, enough of the Trek talk. I happened to be checking the Yosemite association webcams to see if the Tioga Cam was cycling any images from today’s snowstorm and I caught this picture. Sure looks like an…

  • Photo of the Day: After the Storm by Mohans

    So I happened to be browsing Twitter and looking at the different links to photos people had posted and I came across this beautiful photo by Mohans on Twitpic. If this was taken with a cameraphone the exposure is really very good. I’m impressed. Great shot, Mahon. Photo by Mohans via Twitpic.

  • Tioga Pass Closed – Again!

    Phil (outdoorPDK) caught this ominous looking scene back in 2007 on the old USCD webcam.. More rain and snow have come to the Sierra closing all the passes south of Highway 88 including Tioga Pass. The rain and snow are gone for tonight with clear skies in the forecast for the next few days but…

  • SF Parks and Rec says ‘NO’ to Symbiosis at Camp Mather in 2010

    Speaking on behalf of the San Francisco Parks and Recreation department, Parks Director Phil Ginsburg has stated Symbiosis will not be allowed to return to Yosemite due to the 23 drug related arrests that happened over the course of the festival. The festival, which was put on at Camp Mather for the first time in…

  • Photo of the Day: Mist by Edie Howe-Byrne

    Today’s PHoto of the Day is a beautiful shot from our friend Edie from over at LittleRedTent.net. Edie went out and took a lot of shots right after the storm earlier this week and had some of the first photos of the now flowing Yosemite Falls online. Great shot, Edie. Photo by Edie Howe-Byrne.