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  • Happy Birthday Yosemite Blog! 5 Years Old!

    Five years ago I started Yosemite Blog on the advice of Dane (yosemiter.com) and it’s been growing ever since. Every month over 22,000 people visit the site to catch up with news, photos, video and information about the park. I’d just like to take a moment to thank everyone of you for your support, emails,…

  • A Glimpse at the Yosemite of the Past

    Dane sent me a link this weekend via Twitter to this really interesting film real from the 1940’s. Yes, they used to feed bears by hand and would have nightly shows at the garbage dump with dozens of bears clambering for garbage so tourists could see. Thanks, Dane.

  • Remembering An Icon

    The El Portal market was one of those markets you expected to see two guys on the porch playing checkers. It was a hold out of an earlier time when life was good and simple. My wife and I stopped there many times for refreshments on our way out of the park that’s why when…

  • More New Stuff: Gravatars

    [Dane] was tweaking the back end of the site today and added a really cool new feature to the comments, Gravatars. Gravatars (or Globally Recognized Avatars) are 80×80 pixel pictures that follow you around from site to site. What this means for you is that whenever you post a comment, and you use the same…

  • New Faces, New Voices

    Over the last three years Yosemite Blog has grown and grown and continues to grow. To keep the content fresh and provide some new views I’ve invited 4 friends to come and lend their voices to the conversation. I’d like to take a moment to welcome Dane Carlson, Edie Howe-Byrne, Tom Lambert and Rick Deutsch.…

  • Sierra Icon Leveled by Flames

    If you’ve ever hiked the Pacific Crest Trail out of Yosemite and up to Tahoe then you’ve likely been to the Kennedy Meadows Lodge and store. Unfortunately pictures and memories are all anyone has left after theywere destroyed by a fire early Monday that was believed to have started in a woodstove’s flue. LA Times:…

  • Pardon Our Dust, We’re Adding New Features

    If you’ve been watching in the last 20 minutes you’ve seen things happening with the blog as we add some new features. Although it’s ugly at the moment, you can now use the box at the top of the sidebar to sign up for updates from Yosemite Blog to be sent directly to your email.…

  • Rock Climbing in Yosemite (Google Video)

    Dane sent me this great video he found over at Google Video. Here’s the synopsis. Imagine facing a granite wall 2,500 feet straight up with only five strangers to help you climb to the top. Imagine traversing a … all » two-thousand feet deep canyon on a rope, pulling yourself all the way. Imagine camping…

  • More Photos Of The Rockslide Blocking 140

    More photos are up of the rockslide blocking 140 at the Mariposa County Sheriff’s website taken just a few days ago from the air. It really lets you know the breadth and scope of the slide. It looks like 140 is going to be closed indefinitely. The newest are on the very bottom dated June…

  • 140 Looks To Be Closed For Quite Some Time (with pictures)

    If you’ve been hearing about the rock slide blocking 140 between Yosemite and Maripos and you’ve been dying to see what it’s really like then here’s your chance. Notice in the photos how much of the roadway is covered with debris and how close it is to the river. You can also see a big…