Search results for: “Climbing”
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Want to help Yosemite? Now’s your chance.
“Yosemite National Park and the Yosemite Climbing Association invite the public to participate in the “Yosemite Facelift” September 22-25, 2005. This annual event is organized by the Yosemite Climbing Association to help clean up the park after the long and busy summer season. Volunteers are needed to pick up litter at various locations in Yosemite…
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Climber Perishes While Attempting Half Dome
NPS: “A rock climber fell to his death while rock climbing in Yosemite National Park yesterday, September 14, 2005. Bela Feher, 35, of San Diego, California, was rock climbing near the ‘Slab Route’ on the face of Half Dome, when he apparently fell 100 to 150 feet. Park Rangers were notified when his body was…
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Climber Aims to Bring Awareness to Organ Donation
KESQ News: “A woman who has climbed several of the world’s best-known peaks since surviving a heart transplant ten years ago, began her toughest ascent yet today — the sheer, nearly three-thousand-foot-high face of El Capitan. 43-year-old Kelly Perkins started what’s expected to be five days of vertical climbing and camping on the massive granite…
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Bear Activity
Numerous sow’s with cubs have been sighted throughout the valley. They spend time in all the campgrounds and in more natural habitat. Please leave them plenty of space and never come between a mother and cub as this is potentially dangerous. They have obtained food from visitors that left their food out. Please remember to…
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Limiting Visitors to the Park
There was just recently a Yosemite planning meeting that asked the same question that I asked in the poll, should the NPS impose a limit on the number of motorvehicles that can enter the Park? Right now the votes on the poll are a resounding yes with 20 votes in favor of limiting vehicles entering…
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Bears!
Everyone knows I love bears and even though I may do stupid things sometimes, I consider myself to be “above average” on proper bear ettiquette. I’ve always hung food, even when there were no signs advising a need for it, or used bear lockers, cleaned out my car before making sure there was no garbage…
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New Rules Put Rangers and Climbers At Odds
This year there was a change in the rules for overnight camping in Yosemite Valley allowing visitors to camp in Yosemite Valley only 7 days. Though the move was meant to encourage more visitors to explore other areas of the Park it’s left members of the climbing community out in the cold. South Florida Sun-Sentinel:…
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Climber Rescued From El Capitan After Fall
A climber fell and was injured about 800 feet up as he and some climbing partners were attempting the East Buttress Route of El Capitan. The climber was injured June 1st after he took a 15-foot fall while lead climbing on the eighth pitch. The route at the accident site was wet from mist blowing…
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The Ahwahnee
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Spring Inspires Climbers
The Sacramento Bee: “‘Yosemite just comes alive in the spring,’ says Dave Bengston, 44, who has climbed El Capitan 48 times and logged over 1,000 hours on Yosemite rock. ‘All the plants and animals are moving into the growing season. Although there can still be a bit of water on the north-facing cliffs, there’s such…