Yosemite Blog

Category: News

  • TV, Internet at lodges taint Yosemite’s allure for some

    Here’s an interesting article from over at the Contra Costa Times about the recent addition of wireless internet in Yosemite. Personally there’ve been times when I’ve been in the Park and wished to be able to get online to check the news or weather. Of course, I’m also the guy who takes my laptop camping…

  • Water Involved Accidents Claim the Lives of Two Visitors

    NPS: Two visitors in Yosemite National Park have died in the last week due to water-related accidents. Rachael Neil, 22, of Mesa. Arizona was hiking with friends on the John Muir Trail above Nevada Fall. Neil slipped while jumping from rock to rock about ¼ mile above the waterfall and was pulled down stream and…

  • Irish Citizen killed in Yosemite fall

    RTE News: “The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that an Irish man died following a fall at the Yosemite National Park in the US state of California yesterday morning. It is believed the man was hiking with three friends in the Yosemite Falls area of the park when he lost his footing and fell…

  • Body of Missing Kayaker Found

    MyMotherLode.com: “Authorities say a body discovered in the Tuolumne River over the weekend may be that of a kayaker missing since June. Lt. George Ruckman of the Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Office says the body was discovered Saturday in the Clavey Falls area where a man kayaking with three others went under the water and became…

  • Date of Adams Photograph Finally Uncovered

    Yahoo! News: “US astronomers said they had pinpointed the moment and location when one of the most famous landscape pictures in photographic history was taken. “Autumn Moon, the High Sierra from Glacier Point,” taken by Ansel Adams in Yosemite National Park, is a thrilling view of the American West, featuring a waxing Moon rising over…

  • Legal Wrangling Could End Climbing In Yosemite

    KTLA: “The rumble began high on the sheer cliff wall, like faraway thunder before a storm. A slab of granite as big as a railroad boxcar had let loose 1,300 feet up Glacier Point’s age-worn face. The million-pound rock cartwheeled and shattered, tracing a plume of dust downward toward Peter Terbush. In his last earthbound…

  • ‘Shattered Air’ Remembered A Little Differently By Hikers

    A new book, “Shattered Air : A True Account of Catastrophe and Courage on Yosemite’s Half Dome” (Bob Madgic), tells the story of a group of hikers who ventured to the top of Half Dome and were caught in a thunderstorm. But for one group of hikers from Carmel California, the version in the book…

  • Rangers Offer Advice for Staying Safe

    The Modesto Bee: “STAYING SAFE Yosemite National Park rangers offer the following safety tips for hikers: BEFORE YOU LEAVE — Tell someone exactly where you’re going, the route you’re taking and when you’ll be back. “SITUATIONAL AWARENESS” — Analyze the weather and trail conditions before you leave, always be cautious, and understand that the conditions…

  • Going hiking in Yosemite? Keep on your toes.

    The Modesto Bee: “Hikers on Yosemite National Park’s Mist Trail are typically a joyful group, awed by the postcard image of the plunging, 320-foot Vernal Fall.Two weekends ago, however, people on the winding trail turned somber after a man slipped into the water directly above the fall and disappeared over the precipice. “It was weird,…

  • Ahn Likely Killed Traversing Creek

    Hyundo Ahn, a 25-year-old South Korean exchange student who had just completed a year at the University of California/Davis, obtained a wilderness permit for an ambitious eleven-day hike on the John Muir Trail from Yosemite Valley to Mount Whitney on June 20th. After the hike, Ahn planned to visit several other sites in the U.S.…