Category: Safety
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Fourth Visitor with Hantavirus, Symptoms, and How to Protect Yourself
Another visitor has died and a fourth case of hantavirus has been found.
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A Matter of Safety
What do you think, is there a way to make Yosemite safer for the public? What’s your solution? How do you feel? Tell us!
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Summer Road Work
In Yosemite, where the seasons are shorter because of the altitude, summer is often the only time when road work can be completed.
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Beautiful but Deadly: Water in Yosemite
Just in time for Free Entry Week (aka National Parks Week) the National Park Service has released this great video on the dangerousness of water in Yosemite.
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Tioga Pass?
According to our good friend Jeffrey Trust at Yosemite NPS, plowing has begun on Tioga Pass Road. Unfortunately, they haven’t issued a report yet. Hopefully reports will soon be posted online. You can follow along here: Tioga Pass Road plowing update page Be sure to bookmark it, and visit often! Are you aching to get over…
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Ukiah Man Rescued After Three days Trapped in Snow
Sometimes even when you do everything right you can still get into trouble. Craig Greenlee has a passion for the outdoors. He received an environmental health science degree from Fresno State University in 2008, and waits tables while searching for his dream job as an environmental health specialist. Greenlee frequently goes on backpacking trips, mostly…
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Half Dome Survivors Wish They’d Have Taken Heed
This year an unprecedented amount of visitor fatalities has even seasoned Yosemites’ scratching their heads trying to figure out what’s go on with visitors that they’re taking such unnecessary risks with their life.
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Stuck in the Snow
When Mike Wexler signed up to help chaperone the middle school trip to Yosemite for their annual science camp he had no idea what an adventure he was stepping into.
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Tioga Pass open but for how long?
Time is short if you’re looking to get over the newly reopened Tioga Pass before this weekends big winter storm shuts it down again.
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Tioga Pass Closed – Probably for the Season
It’s that time. The first GOOD winter storm has come and the Tioga Road is closed – probably for the season.