Category: News
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Rainier’s Uberuaga Ready to Step Into Tollefson’s Boots
With Mike Tollefson’s retirement eminent a temporary replacement is already lacing up his boots and getting ready to step in until a permanent replacement can be found. Mercury News: Mount Rainier National Park Superintendent David Uberuaga (YU-ber-AH-gah) will start as Yosemite’s acting head on January 4. Superintendent Michael Tollefson announced in August he was stepping…
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Some Changes to the Bracebridge Dinner Event Times
Martha, the Special Events Coordinator over at the Ahwahnee sent me a note about a couple times that have changed in the events surrounding the Bracebridge Dinner event schedule. The Christmas Day (December 25th) concert is now scheduled at 2 p.m. instead of 8 p.m. The Yule Log Ceremony & Caroling (December 23rd) now begins…
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NPS Closes 1/3 Curry Village Permanently
On October 7 and 8, 2008, two rockfalls occurred in Yosemite Valley, affecting the Curry Village area. This resulted in the temporary closure of many of the visitor accommodations until a thorough geologic assessment could be completed. During this time, National Park Service (NPS) geologists, in collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey, and other national…
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Curry Village Could Lose Half Its Tent Accomodations
The Associated Press is reporting that last months rock slide which damaged parts of Curry Villages tent accommodations could cause the tents in that area to be closed permanently, cutting tent camping in Curry Village in half. The park advisory committee could decide as early as this week whether or not to close the section…
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Tollefson Moving On
Here’s a great article that ran this morning in the Modesto Bee on Mike Tollefson, the current Superintendent of Yosemite who will be leaving for his new job as head of the Yosemite Fund in January. I really liked this article because I thought it did well to bring out and show who Tollefson is.…
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SF Drops Plan to Drain Tuolumne
In a shallow victory for environmentalists and those of us who live along the Tuolumne, San Francisco’s Public Utilities Commission has dropped plans to siphon off an additional 25 million gallons of water a day from the already flagging river. East Bay Express: “San Francisco’s plan to take an additional 25 million gallons of water…
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We’d Like to Hear from You
As part of our new roll out we’re featuring sections on places to stay in and around the park. If you’ve stayed at any of the local inns we’d like to hear from you. Send us an email with what you liked or didn’t like and what you thought of where you stayed. It can…
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Fire Season Officially Over for Yosemite *WHEW*!
With recent wet weather dampening everything in sight, fire season in Yosemite is officially over. National Park Service: The fire season concludes this year with a number of projects successfully completed, including those which significantly protect communities in and around Yosemite. In April, 1,124 acres were burned immediately adjacent to the community of Wawona, and…
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DNA Confirms Steve Fossets Body in Crash South East of Yosemite
The body found in the wreckage of a small plane South East of Yosemite National Park has been confirmed through DNA testing to be that of missing Steve Fosset. Independent.co.uk: “A California Department of Justice Forensics lab has determined that items containing DNA – discovered last week – match James Stephen Fossett’s DNA,” the Madera…
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Rain Rain and More Rain…Oh Yeah and Some Snow
To give you an idea of what the weather is like in the park right now, here’s a radar image I just grabbed from Weather.com. The blue is snow, pink is rain/snow mix, green varying levels of rain and yellow is heavy rain.