Category: News
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Tioga Road to Open and Some Tips for the Memorial Day Weekend
The Tioga Road will open to traffic this Wednesday just in time for Memorial Day. Here’s the official word from the National Park Service plus some tips for visitors headed into the park over the Memorial dayweekend. Yosemite National Park Superintendent Mike Tollefson announced today that the Tioga Road will open for the season on…
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Half Dome Cables Up for the Season
Grab your water, gloves, walking stick and good boots the cables are up on Half Dome just in time for Memorial Day weekend. Enjoy!
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John Muir Trail Open
The John Muir Trail from Clark’s Point to Nevada Fall is open for the season.
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Tioga Road Ready?
Nothing is confirmed. This is just my opinion. Administrative traffic is being allowed through on the Tioga Road. I’m betting it opens Friday. Just in time for Memorial Day. This is just my opinion. I have heard nothing.
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Backpacking With Baby. Yes You Can!
Being the parent of a pre-toddler and an outdoorsman I’m already planning our first trip with the new addition. Here’s a cool article I stumbled across in USA Today about backpacking with baby. Pretty cool! USATODAY.com: “My husband, Stephen, and I stopped to chat with them. It was our fourth Yosemite trip of the year,…
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Construction Begins on New Bridges on 140
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) will close State Route 140/Ferguson Rockslide Bypass (Incline Road) in Mariposa County to through traffic in one hour intervals. Accumulated traffic will be allowed to go through the closure at the top of the hour; i.e.: 12:00 a.m. (midnight), 1:00 a.m., 2:00 a.m., 3:00 a.m., and 4:00 a.m. Work…
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Tioga Pass Plowing progress report
http://tenaya.ucsd.edu/tioga/ http://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/tioga.htm Tioga Road progress for May 8, 2008 Ending Location: Tioga Pass Average Snow depth: 6 feet (8 to 9 feet at Tioga Pass parking lots) Snow removal operations continue, including widening Tioga Road and working on utility roads and spur roads. Four avalanche zones remain. There is no estimated opening date for the…
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School Buses Crash in Yosemite
Just got this from the National Park Service. Two school buses from Yolo Middle School in Newman collided in a rear end collision about a mile north of the El Portal Road/Big Oak Flat Road intersection. Forty children were on board the two buses. Injuries are being described as minor to moderate. The children were…
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Firefalls 2008: Follow up.
Our friend Tom Lambert has a post up on his blog, YosemiteExplorer.com about the Royal Arches fire; In a nutshell, a fire was spotted on Monday night at that spot. Speculation is that climbers coming off the Royal Arches route lit it to get warm, and didn’t extinguish it properly. You can read Tom’s account…
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Firefalls 2008: Let the fire fall!
There was a fire on the north rim today, just west of Northdome and slightly east of Royal Arches Cascades. Tonight I noticed the light as I went out for a smoke, went and grabbed my camera and took several shots. Unfortunately I don’t have a wireless release and so had to resort to hand-holding…