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  • Current Yosemite Road Conditions

    IMPORTANT: Please call 209.372.0200 then press 1 and 1 for the latest road conditions. If you’re planning on traveling during fall, winter or spring beware, roads may be icy, and may have snow or water on them. You are required by federal law to carry tire chains when entering a designated chain control area. Tire…

  • 2008 Tuolumne Planning Workbook

    The “other” great river flowing through Yosemite is the Tuolumne. It flows down the meadow by the same name, past the Glen Aulin High Sierra camp, and into the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. From there it slowly winds westward in an impressive canyon.  If you are more than a casual visitor, you appreciate all that the…

  • A Cool Book For the Trail Rats in the Crowd

    I read a lot of books on Yosemite and from time to time I check the Amazon stats to see what books everyone has been buying. So I was checking the stats this morning and I noticed a lot of people had shown interest in Top Trails Yosemite: Must Do Hikes for Everyone. I haven’t…

  • Chris Asks: Where’s Good Fishing in Yosemite This Time of Year

    Chris writes in: I was hoping to get some early season flyfishing in. I will be backpacking with some friends in Yosemite in a few weeks (Probably the 23rd of May to the 26th or so). I know that east of Hetch Hetchy, the Tuolomne is way too fast for any fishing. How about fishing…

  • Tuolumne – Wild & Scenic River

     The Tuolumne River Plan is in review and should be completed in 2008. When we hike Half Dome, we cross the Merced River and unless we travel up north we rarely see it.  To see the actual Tuolumne River, you have to do some hiking, park along the Tioga Road, or drive to Hetch Hetchy…

  • More rockfalls and a “minor collapse”

    From our friends in the green jeans: Due to a minor collapse in the pedestrian tunnel at Hetch Hetchy, the trail to Wapama and Tueealala Falls is inaccessible at this time. NPS and City of San Francisco staff will be evaluating the situation on Monday. Due to continuing rockfalls from Middle Brother, Northside Drive between…

  • Trail Running with Nemo

    Summer wanes. Days are short and still getting shorter and weather is less stable. The fall colors are all but gone, but on the plus side the summer crowds are all but gone as well. I came to Yosemite for the rock climbing, but lately, it’s the hiking and especially trail running that appeals to…

  • Yosemite in the News: 1870-1913

    The New York Times has made scans of early articles avaialble for free. A quick search of “Yosemite” turned up some interesting results between 1870 and 1913: 1870 A letter to the editor from one of the people who’d settled in Yosemite before 1864 when the valley was taken over by the state of California…

  • A Walk In The Park

    Here’s a really nice article from the Travel section of the New York Daily News on the authors trip to the Yosemite back-country and Ansel Adams Wilderness. NY Daily News: “In honor of Muir, I’m also looking for the universe in a forest wilderness. The centerpiece of my visit to Yosemite this year is a…

  • Thank You Yosemite Blog Visitors

    I just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who stopped by last month. It seems June was the busiest month ever for Yosemite Blog. We had 21,829 visitors stop by to check out the site. What’s neat is over 10,000 of those visitors came from unique IP addresses making a lot of them…