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  • Campgrounds are full where should we go?

    Pavitra happened across the blog the other day and thought to write in with a great question. I’m planning a 4 or 5-day camping trip to Yosemite in mid-June and need your help finding a campground. All the campsites in yosemite are reserved already, so I am now looking at places outside the park. (I…

  • Going Hiking In April

    Reader Jeff wrote in to ask: We are going to be visiting Yosemite April 19-23 and we were wondering what trails might be open (free of snow) that time of the year. Tentatively, we are hiking the lower trails at Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite Valley, but we were hoping for a good third hike. Well…

  • Camping in June, where should we stay?

    Barbara and the Rhoades family wrote in to ask: We were hoping to get a site in the valley but that didn’t work out so well this morning. Where would you suggest we stay? We would love to be near a river which is why I was thinking Wawona, but then I found a negative…

  • Help! I’m Camping at Hodgdon Meadow!

    Moni wrote in to ask: “I ended up having to make my reservations for Hodgdon Meadow instead…is this a less desirable place to camp?” Well the answer is, Hodgdon Meadow is a beautiful place to camp. It’s right on the entrance to the park on 120 so it actually opens up some different hiking and…

  • Yes, It Will Cost More to Spend the Night in Yosemite Next Year

    NPS: Yosemite National Park announced today that camping fees will increase beginning January 1, 2006. Campgrounds affected by the rate increase are Upper Pines, Lower Pines, and North Pines in Yosemite Valley, Hodgdon Meadows and Crane Flat, Tuolumne Meadows, and Wawona. Rates in these campgrounds will increase from $18/ night to $20/ night. Additionally, first-come,…

  • We Can Pull The Plug

    Here’s an article showing how we can pull the plug on Hetch Hetchy and San Francisco will get along just fine. I’ve always believed the same thing. We are humans after all and we do adapt. Here’s the article. My Motherlode.com: “Researchers released a major study regarding the Hetch Hetchy reservoir, revealing that practical, reasonably…

  • Limiting Visitors to the Park

    There was just recently a Yosemite planning meeting that asked the same question that I asked in the poll, should the NPS impose a limit on the number of motorvehicles that can enter the Park? Right now the votes on the poll are a resounding yes with 20 votes in favor of limiting vehicles entering…

  • I have the most

    I have the most awesome readers of any blogger. There was just a study that came out that said readers couldn’t figure out what comments were for or how to use them but you guys have figured it out no problem. I’d like to share with you a comment I got on one my posts…

  • Scripps Howard News Service

    SHNS: A new alliance of seven American Indian tribes on Thursday demanded a role in restoring Hetch Hetchy Valley, an idea under study by a team of state officials. Calling themselves the Tribal Forum of Indigenous Peoples, the group formed in April in response to growing public debate about the future of Hetch Hetchy. The…

  • Don’t tear down Yosemite’s dam / Drain the reservoir, you’ll get swamps and mosquitoes

    SF Gate: “A “Restore Hetch Hetchy” movement seeks to dismantle San Francisco’s O’Shaughnessy Dam and drain the reservoir it created north of Yosemite Valley. “Let the great granite walls and booming waterfalls speak for themselves, ” Restore’s director, Ron Good, wrote in a recent newsletter. But those walls and waterfalls do speak for themselves. They…