Search results for: “El Cap”
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Photo of the Day: Lower Yosemite Fall by Jon Shiu
Today’s Photo of the Day is a beautiful shot by Jon Shiu of Lower Yosemite Fall. Jon took the photo with a plastic toy camera with medium format roll film, printed in the darkroom and sepia toned. Pretty cool, eh? What’s also cool is it’s Jon’s entry into the Yosemite Renaissance. For the uninitiated, the…
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Photo of the Day: Yosemite Valley View by Jason Armstrong
Today’s Photo of the Day is a REALLY beautiful shot of the Valley covered in snow reflecting in the still Merced River by Jason Armstrong. Jason said in his caption on Flickr: Haven’t noticed this before but the valley has wifi from pretty much everywhere we went, this brings a lot to the table. Being…
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A Rare Gem from John Muir
While browsing the Library of Congress collection I came across this gem, an original article penned by John Muir from The Atlantic Monthly in 1899. I’ve read all of John Muir’s books and short storied but I’ve never read this article until tonight. OF all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra…
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Exciting Badger Pass Improvements
This, finally, is the story that I’ve been dying to share with you for several weeks now. It was broken by Marek Warszowski at the Fresno Bee. It’s been very exciting to hear about the new improvements – the refurbishment of the ski lift (almost everything is new except the towers – including more comfortable…
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Photo of the Day: Falls by Ian Guerra
Today’s Photo of the Day more than makes up for the lack of one yesterday. It’s a superbly beautiful black and white of water a silky smooth waterfall captured by Ian Guerra. Nice work, Ian. Well done. Photo by Ian Guerra via Flickr.
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Adams Exhibit Showing at Taylor Hall on Stanford Campus
If you live in the Bay Area then head over to Palo Alto and the Stanford campus to check out a display of some of Ansel Adams best known works. “Nature & Spirit: The Landscape Photographs of Ansel Adams” will be on display at the University Art Gallery in Taylor Hall from Thursday October 2nd…
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Mailbag: 6 Tips for Your Next Trip, Map for Sale and Take My Photo Please!
At camp one of the things we looked forward to most was getting mail. So, to bring back some of that ol’ nostalgia, I’m reviving the mailbag tradition. Each week, that I have some, I’ll post your letters and comments so send me what you got! Kevin writes in: “I was surprised to read (6…
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Photo of the Day: Busted! Sent in by Reader Debbie
When I was growing up we used to watch a show called Candid Camera. The premise was simple. Put a camera in a secret location then set people up to do stuff on camera while they don’t know they’re being filmed. You think this guy had any idea his cell phone call would be witnessed…
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Tram Catches Fire in Yosemite National Park
Ok here’s finally an article that talks about the burning tram that was featured as Photo of the Day the other day by David Wuertele. MercedSunStar.com: “Yosemite National Park officials continue to investigate an incident where the truck hauling a tram carrying tourists caught fire and burned up on Highway 41 near the Tunnel View…
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CA State Parks – SAVED!!!
Many, many of us enjoy and use the State Parks as our training ground for our Yosemite hikes. This is great news. Governor Schwarzenegger released a revision to his January budget and is now proposing to restore funding to keep all of California’s state parks open. The Save Our State Parks Campaign advises that the Legislature…