A while back when Yosemite Blog was still flapping its wings trying to get out of the nest I got an email from someone that really made me happy to be doing what I’m doing. Well, after much debating I’m finally going to post the letter. Thanks for all the encouragement, Mark.
Found your blog page of Yosemite and felt compelled to write.
I, too, love Yosmite and its rich histroy.
I feel tied emotionally; my granddfather having been A.B.C Dohrmann, who at one time as an invester in the Desmond Company, (one of the Park’s two earlies concessionaires along with the Curry Family), was encouraged to take control of the company, and change its name to the Yosemite Park Company. So grandfather operated as the President of this reformed company until its merger with the Curry Company around 1925-26, at which time he proposeed Tressider, a Curry son-in-law to become President of the new company. Markings of the old YP&CC moniker can still be found in Curry Village.I return when I can, have hiked the 4-mile, Half Dome, and the strech just to to top of Nevada Falls, Yosemite falls, done the High Sierra Camps, even ran into a gentleman on the trail who remembered my grandfather. Made the hike from Tuolumne Meadows to Devils Postpile. Camped many a time at in the high country meadows.
There is no part of it I don’t enjoy, except perhaps the crush of people during summer, which I now avoid as a time to visit. I imagine I’d be happest buried there someday, or perhaps have my ashes spread from Glacier Point to Camp Curry, in memory of the Fire Falls I was fortuninate enough to enjoy in my youth.
Glad to see you page. Almost like being there, stirring up those memorys that remain, like colling embers of a camp fire.
Mark Dohrmann
Thank you also to everyone who has taken the time to visit and especially those of you who drop me an email or send me a comment or trackback ping. I read everyone.
Thanks.
Loyd – Yosemite Blog