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  • Share Your Yosemite: Generations

    Continuing our Share Your Yosemite series, Kevin sent us this email of his yosemite. My first trip to Yosemite was when I was in my early teens with a group of 4-5 families from our neighborhood. I grew up at the beach in Southern California, so my dad’s attitude tended to be why vacation when…

  • Biggest Full Moon of the Year Tonight

    The full moon will appear it’s largest tonight, Friday 29, 2010. Photo by R. Kurtz. If you love photographing Yosemite’s majestic cliffs and waterfalls at night tonight may be a great night to do some shooting, if the clouds don’t get in the way. Tonight the moon will be closest in it’s orbit to the…

  • 52 Documented Rock Falls in 2009

    Recorded rockfalls in Yosemite National Park from 1857-2009. Courtesy NPS. Most of the time you don’t hear about a rockfall in Yosemite unless it closes a road or hotel or someone is in the wrong spot at the wrong time. @YosemiteScience posted a link to the great new rockfall page on the NPS website explaining…

  • Yosemite 2009: The Year in Review

    2009 was a big year in Yosemite. There were rock falls, the Ahwahnee was closed for a while and there were more than enough fires. Here’s a quick run-down of this years top stories. Rockfall by Ahwahnee Hotel In early February an 800 ton rock fall took place near the Ahwahnee. Amgen Bicycle Tour Visits…

  • Photo of the Day: Looking Back at 2009

    2009 was a great year in Yosemite as seen in all the beautiful photos we posted as Photo of the Day. Here are some of the photos from 2009 you thought were exceptional. Enjoy! Photo by Charles Phillips. Photo by Edie Howe-Byrne. Photo by JohnB49. Photo by Forrest P.. Photo by Hamza Lakhani. Photo by…

  • And When the Clouds Parted

    I just happened to look up from my work to catch this really beautiful shot on the Yosemite Association webcam of Half Dome across Ahwahnee Meadow.

  • Lots To Do in Yosemite Over the Holiday

    The Glacier Point Ski Hut offers one destination for cross country skiers and snow shoers. Photo by Thomas Kriese. If you’ve been thinking about heading to Yosemite over the holiday then come on. There’s a ton of stuff to do. Grab your skis and your snowboard, air up that inner tube, Badger Pass is opening…

  • Photo of the Day: First Snow by Edie Howe-Byrne

    Today’s Photo of the Day is a beautiful shot of Half Dome after yesterday’s snowstorm, the first snow of the season, by Edie Howe-Byrne. Edie took a lot more pics of the Valley after the snowstorm and I invite you to check them out. If you see one you like Edie does sell her pics…

  • Photographers Brave Cold to Recreate Ansel Adams 1960 Photograph

    Photographers join together to tough out the cold while waiting to recreate Ansel Adams’ iconic Moon and Half Dome. Photo by Edie Howe-Byrne. Last Saturday a rare event happened, one that had photographers lining up in one of Yosemite’s meadows, it was the chance to recreate one of Ansel Adams iconic photographs, Moon and Half…

  • Curry Village Ice Rink Slated to Open this Friday November 20th

    Skating at Curry Village Ice Rink in Yosemite National Park. Photo by Dolan Halbrook. How cold has it been? Well cold enough that the Yosemite Ice Rink at Curry Village is scheduled to open this Friday, November 20th. If you’ve never visited the rink it’s located just outside Curry Village and affords you an awesome…