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Edie’s Image of the Day: Hanging Garden
Plants grow from a crack in Glacier Point Apron(Cross posted from The Little Red Tent)
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Expect Weird Weather for Memorial Day
If you’re heading up to the park this weekend bring some warm clothes and a rain jacket. It’s going to be cold and could get wet as cool air mass passes through Central California bringing unseasonably cool temperatures and a chance of thunderstorms with rain, hail, lightning and, as usual in the Sierra, maybe even…
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Edie’s Image of the Day: The Fen
A fen is a marsh or bog, a low area of land subject to seasonal flooding.(Cross posted from The Little Red Tent)
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Half Dome Cables Up This Friday. Got your permit?
The cables will be in place for visitors wishing to climb Half Dome via the shoulder route starting this Friday, May 25th 2012. Permits are required to hike to the top of Half Dome for all visitors. Visitors are required to have a permit to ascend the Half Dome cables seven days per week. The…
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Edie’s Image of the Day: Cow Parsnip
Cow Parsnip (Heracleum maximum) blossoms. (Cross posted from The Little Red Tent)
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Missing Hiker Found
John Paul Chaufan Field, the hiker missing in the Kibbie Lake area of Yosemite National Park, has been found safe and is reported to be in good condition. Chaufan Field was spotted by the park’s contract helicopter at approximately 3:15 p.m. yesterday afternoon near Edith Lake, approximately five miles east of Kibbie Lake, the point…
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Edie’s Image of the Day: Fallen Dogwood
Just a reminder that there is a $500 fine for picking or collecting flowers in Yosemite National Park. Even fallen flowers.(Cross posted from The Little Red Tent)
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Help Find a Missing Hiker
If you were in the Kibbie Lake area you can help find a missing hiker who is overdue. Yosemite National Park is searching for John Paul Chaufan Field, 22 years old, a college student who is attending the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC). Chaufan Field was last seen near Kibbie Lake in the…
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Yosemite Annular Eclipse 2012 Report
Because I had to work, I could not go to any really cool spots like Mono Lake, Reno, or Tuolumne Meadows for the Eclipse. And because I didn’t have a variable neutral density filter, I couldn’t take any shots of the eclipse itself! But since I work at Glacier Point in Yosemite, I did have…
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Billy Idol in Yosemite
This is soo cool! One of my favorite musicians from the 1980’s, Billy Idol was in Yosemite.