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Unsafe Driving Leads to Two Accidents in 5 Days
Mather District rangers dealt with two serious accidents that injured a total of 15 people this past week. On July 15th, the driver of a passenger van carrying eight people fell asleep on the Tioga Road east of Yosemite Creek. The van went over the edge, rolling completely at least once on a talus slope…
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Beautiful Downpour in Tioga Pass
I happened to check the Tioga Pass webcam tonight and noticed it’d captured a very nice rainbow during an evening downpour. The timestamp on the photo is a little after 7 p.m. tonight. Awesome photo. I’m glad they have the webcams up and allow everyone to see them.
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Returning To Full Text Feeds
You may have noticed some time back that I switched over to partial posts in my RSS feed and in the daily email. Why did I change the feed? Well lets just say that my feed was being republished and I didn’t feel it was fair to the nice people who give me permission to…
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Photo of the Day: Meltwater Pond and Grasses, Mount Gibbs and Kuna Crest, Tuolumne Meadows by G. Dan Mitchell
Today’s Photo of the Day is another beautiful shot by our friend G. Dan Mitchell. Dan wrote in the caption about this photo: Evening sky is reflected in a meltwater pond at the edge of a Tuolumne Meadows with Mount Gibbs and the Kuna Crest beyond, Yosemite National Park, California. A rather peaceful evening scene,…
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Morning Shot July 22 2009
Today’s Forecast: Some clouds this morning making way for sunshine and a cooler (than yesterday) afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s with a chance of thunderstorms again in the afternoon. Overnight lows are expected to be around 66F. Enter your photo to be a Photo of the Day or a Morning Shot: Got a photo…
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Photo of the Day: Cathedral by Jonathan Fox
Ok so I got busy watching the directors cut of Watchmen last night and by the time I realized what time it was on the way to bed so I didn’t get the Photo of the Day up. That movie is 3 1/2 hours long! So, without further adieu here’s the Photo of the Day…
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Morning Shot July 21 2009
Today’s Morning Shot comes to us from the Mono Lake web cam ran by the Mono Lake Committee. If you’ve never been to Mono Lake then you really have to add it to your list of places to visit. It’s one of the few places in the United States you can actually get out and…
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Photo of the Day: Tioga in Black and White by Loyd Schutte
Today’s Photo of the Day is actually one of mine from this past trip over Tioga Pass. Coming up the grade from Lee Vining I told my wife I would be stopping for a picture soon. No sooner had we got past the gates when I pulled over and set off across the meadow. Wasn’t…
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Getting Ready for Something Bigger
Here’s a really cool teaser to a climbing movie that’s coming soon. In the teaser Leo Houlding hones his big walling skills and meets up with Asagrd climbing partner, Sean ‘Stanley’ Leary. The film centers around climbing preparations and climbing Mount Asgard in Auyuittuq National Park, Canada. Pretty cool. If you’re a fan of climbing…
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Morning Shot – July 20 2009
We’re back from vacation. I hope everyone enjoyed the free entry to Yosemite and all the National Parks this past weekend. Today’s Morning Shot is a pano stictched together on my iPhone 3GS using the application Pano from Debacle Software. Pano is just one of many applications for the iPhone we tested. Full reviews will…