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Photo of the Day: Steves Rock by Susanne Friedrich or A White Box
Today’s Photo of the Day I really really wanted to post but the author has their permissions set so that I can’t. Nevertheless, I’m not going to let that deter me. Instead I’ll put up a white box. I’ll describe it since you can’t see it, it’s a rock…and it’s at Olmstead Point…it’s colored and…
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Photo of the Day: Upper Yosemite Falls by Talia Starkey
Today’s Photo of the Day is a beautiful shot of Upper Yosemite Falls from the Yosemite Falls Trail. I really like this angle. Great shot Talia. Photo by Talia Starkey via Flickr.
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New Travel Channel Show Highlighting Yosemite Debuts This Week
A new Travel Channel show on Yosemite is making it’s debut this week with 3 showings that you’re not going to want to miss (although I already missed Sunday’s showing so I’m going to have to set the TiVo to catch the Thursday night showing). NPS: “‘Yosemite- America’s Treasure’ will debut on the Travel Channel…
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Foreign Tourism Climbs in Yosemite
With the US Dollar down foreign tourism is on the rise and Yosemite officials are already feeling the pressure as booking for the summer season begin. KCRA 3: “‘We see a fluctuation in Asian visitation and European visitation but everything we’re seeing so far –bookings, reservations, it’ll be a real big year for international visitation,’…
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Photo of the Day: Mule Pass by Michael Yocum
Today’s Photo of the Day is an awesome panoramic of Mule Pass taken by Michael Yocum. Michael captured what to me epitomizes the high Sierra and sticks in my memory: blue skies, jagged peaks and puffy white clouds. Great shot Michael. Nicely done. Photo by Michael Yocum via Flickr.
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Yosemite Association Forum
The Yosemite Association (YA) sponsors 2 member forum each year. They just had the Spring ‘08 function. There were about 200 people at the Village for this one. The Park Superintendent (Mike Tollefsen) and the CEO of YA (David Guy) spoke, along with many other programs. I got a neat tour of the Ahwahnee Lodge…
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Photo of the Day: Observation by Upshift
Today’s Photo of the Day isn’t actually OF Yosemite but something that’s a part of Yosemite’s history, one of the old railway cars that used to bring visitors into the park. Upshifts caption reads: “NILES CANYON, CA — The historic Yosemite Valley #330 Observation Car. Built in 1907, it is one of the more historic…
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The Return of Photo of the Day
You may have notice I haven’t been doing any Photo of the Day’s for the past few weeks. Don’t worry I didn’t do away with it. It just went on a short break until spring came and more photos started pouring into the pool. Now that Photo of the Day is back from hiatus why…
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It’s alive!
The Tioga Pass cam is alive and working again! Now you can see how beautiful the high sierra is in winter. Thanks go out to Pat and everyone who emailed to let me know the cam was back up and functional. Thanks guys!
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Warmer Weather On The Way
The National Weather Service has issued a high stream warning for the Sierra Nevada as a high pressure moves into the area bringing with it warmer temperatures. “A TRANSITION FROM SEASONAL WEATHER TO MUCH WARMER THAN NORMAL WEATHER WILL TAKE PLACE THIS WEEK AS A STRONG HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE BUILDS OVER THE WEST. THIS CHANGE…