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Photo of the Day: Sentinel Dome by Eric Chavira
Today’s Photo of the Day comes to us from Eric Chavira who sent me this really cool photo he took on the top of Sentinel Dome over the holiday weekend. Great shot Eric. Thanks for sending it in. If you’d like to send in photos please feel free. You can email them to me at:…
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The Ice Rink is Open – Winter is coming!
The weather is still relatively balmy, but for those of us Jones-ing for a bit of snow and the onset of ski season, the opening of the ice skating rink is one of the first signs that winter is rapidly approaching. I’m not too much of an ice-skater, myself, but the spectacular location of this…
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Curry Village is closed for two weeks
Curry Village tents and cabins are all empty except for some Yosemite Institute student groups for the next two weeks. This is an annual closure. It’s remarkably quiet among the little white tents. We look forward to having guests again!
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Yosemite Ridge Gives Children With Chronic Illnesses a Second Chance
Modesto Bee: “Allen Karle’s lungs don’t always cooperate with a 10-year-old’s idea of fun. Asthma put the Modesto boy in a hospital for five days in January and five days again in May. ‘They’ve got him on so much medication, it’s ridiculous,’ said his mother, Sharon Karle. She’s got asthma too, though not as bad.…
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Photo of the Day: 1957 YP&CC Brochure
Well the Holiday weekend is over and we’ve got a bunch of cool things coming up. Thank you Edie for the great posts and photos over the last few days. To start off this weeks Photo of the Day we have not a photo, but a really cool brochure from 1957 put out by the…
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Moonrise, Black Friday, 2007
No hostile crowds of determined shoppers, no angst over not having money to spend, no fistfights in the parking lot over a contested parking spot. No canned music, no screaming kids on Santa’s lap, no elves with attitudes, no tacky Christmas decorations. No strings of lights drooping, no eco-friendly LEDs, no shards of shattered glass…
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Thanksgiving day road trip.
Well, it’s been a quiet week in Yosemite Valley. Frost has arrived, turning the cow parsnip flower bracts sublime. I met up with a coworker at breakfast by chance. What are you doing for Thanksgiving, I asked. “Just hanging out.” Would you like to head over Tioga Pass? I want to get over to Mono…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours from all of us here at Yosemite Blog.
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Photo of the Day: Sunset in High Yosemite by Mary Branscombe
Today’s Photo of the Day is a great sunset over Tuolumne Meadows captured by Mary Branscombe. Very nice Mary. Photo by Mary Branscombe via Flickr.
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Yosemite in Court Nov 28
I wanted to catch you before yall hit the road to spend Thanksgiving with your Aunt Betty. You need to be aware that the NPS is going to a 9th District court hearing to appeal a lower court ruling on case 07-15124 Friends of Yosemite Valley vs. Kempthorne. To get you up to date, the…