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  • Photo of the Day: Mule Pass by Michael Yocum

    Today’s Photo of the Day is an awesome panoramic of Mule Pass taken by Michael Yocum. Michael captured what to me epitomizes the high Sierra and sticks in my memory: blue skies, jagged peaks and puffy white clouds. Great shot Michael. Nicely done. Photo by Michael Yocum via Flickr.

  • Tuolumne River Planning Session Canceled

    If you were planning on participating in the Tuolumne Public Planning Workshop scheduled for Saturday, April 12 from 9 am to 4 pm in the Yosemite Valley Visitor Center Auditorium go ahead and make other plans. The workshop has been canceled. Tuolumne Planning Blog (U.S. National Park Service): “As a result last week’s ruling from…

  • Want an Original Ansel Adams? Get Your Checkbook Out

    Christies is set to auction off pieces from one of the nations largest privately held collections of Ansel Adams photos andexpects to get $3 – 5 million for the lot. Artdaily.org – The First Art Newspaper on the Net: “Christie’s announced the sale of Photographs by Ansel Adams from a California Collection during Photographs Week…

  • Yosemite User Capacity Forum

    Yosemite will be hosting the above forum on Feb 6-8 at the Yosemite Lodge in the Valley. To quote the announcement of the purpose:  “To further the understanding of, and explore approaches to addressing, user capacity in National Parks and other public lands by engaging public land managers, researchers, elected officials, tribes, and the general…

  • 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:…

  • Yosemite Climbing Association Facelift On The Way

    Yosemite is a beautiful place but by the end of summer it can be a little messy from the millions of visitor feet tromping up and down trails bringing with them thousands of pounds of garbage and debris. That’s why every year the Yosemite Climbing Association organizes a park-wide cleanup to help restore the park…

  • Doug McConnell of Openroad.tv Interviews Galen and Barbara Rowell

    I tried to come up with a really great introduction to this video and I couldn’t. Everyone knows Galen Rowell was a great photographer and many consider his work in Yosemite every bit as influential to modern photography as Ansel Adams. His stories and photographs hold a special place for many, myself included. Doug McConnell…

  • Photo of the Day: Line Again by B. Heliker

    Today’s Photo of the Day comes from B. Heliker over on Flickr. The caption reads: The last 840 feet require use of these cables. On a beautiful summer day, this means a line. I thought I hiked 8 miles out into the wilderness of Yosemite to avoid lines?? Great shot. Thanks for sharing your photo…

  • Summertime Spells Long Lines and Traffic Jams

    MSNBC.com: Taking a summer vacation by car? If so, you might want to reconsider if your destination shows up on a list released Thursday of the 25 most congested tourist spots. The list covers the country — from The Hamptons on New York’s Long Island, to Yosemite National Park in California. The Oregon coast topped…

  • Dan Mitchell:A most ‘excellent’ photographer

    Dan Mitchell’s a great guy and he lent me this awesome picture of Cathedral Peak for Yosemite Blog and I can’t say ‘thank you’ enough. But Dan’s got more than this shot up at his website, Dan Mitchell.org. There’s tons and tons of beautiful photos of Yosemite if you’ve got a few minutes to spare.…