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  • Going Hiking in Yosemite? Grab Your DVD Player.

    Grab your credit card folks because here’s one you’re not going to want to miss. Jon Shannon loves Yosemite. Love it a lot in fact. Loves it so much that when he decided to take some of his photography and make a new style trail guide he was sure it’d be a hit. The DVD…

  • Life With Edie

    A few months ago I did an online interview with Edie who is working for the concessionaires about life and work in the Park. I’ve finally had a chance to work through the interview and post it. YB: Why did you want to work in Yosemite? Edie: I found myself, at the age of 45,…

  • Reader Questions: What’s it like in December?

    Peter sent me an email and asked: “I was thinking about coming to Yosemite in December – I gotta make 2 pilgimages a year – and this year I’ve been lacking. Anyhow, what’s it like in December? Is there gonna be snow? Are there a lot of bears? Will I spend all my time in…

  • Life in Yosemite by TB

    “I worked in Yosemite for a short time in April of 2000 as a tour guide. It was my plan to work that summer from April to September. Actually I never got past the training phase and decided it was not for me but that should not in any way influence your decision. I have…

  • Life Inside The Park

    A few months ago I did an online interview with Edie who is working for the concessionaires about life and work in the Park. I’ve finally had a chance to work through the interview and post it. YB: Why did you want to work in Yosemite? Edie: I found myself, at the age of 45,…

  • Battle To Restore Hetch Hetchy Moves Into High Gear

    SignOnSanDiego.com: “An uncelebrated gem, Hetch Hetchy rewards visitors with towering granite cathedrals and cascading streams as postcard worthy as Half Dome or Vernal Falls. It is an escape to solitude, where even day-trippers can relish a true Yosemite experience without the bumper-to-bumper RVs and elbow-to-elbow visitors jostling on the main valley floor a mere 15…

  • 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…

  • ‘Shattered Air’ Remembered A Little Differently By Hikers

    A new book, “Shattered Air : A True Account of Catastrophe and Courage on Yosemite’s Half Dome” (Bob Madgic), tells the story of a group of hikers who ventured to the top of Half Dome and were caught in a thunderstorm. But for one group of hikers from Carmel California, the version in the book…

  • A Spectacular Light Show Comes to Yosemite

    Friday night will be a spectacular night in Yosemite when the traveling light show comes to town. No, the circus isn’t coming to Yosemite. It’s the Perseid Meteor Shower. This annual event has provided a spectacular light show in the August night sky with the last few years being more spectacular than the last. So…

  • 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.…