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Ready for a little color?
“The best autumn colors occur under dry and cool but not freezing weather. The National Weather Service has posted their seasonal outlooks indicating that weather in the central Sierra this fall is likely to be warmer and drier than average, so we could be in for a spectacular fall display. Leaves have been using pigments…
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Climber Perishes While Attempting Half Dome
NPS: “A rock climber fell to his death while rock climbing in Yosemite National Park yesterday, September 14, 2005. Bela Feher, 35, of San Diego, California, was rock climbing near the ‘Slab Route’ on the face of Half Dome, when he apparently fell 100 to 150 feet. Park Rangers were notified when his body was…
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Red Bears Debut Along Tioga Road
“Have you noticed the new red bear markers along the Tioga Road? These markers, placed in areas where several bears have been hit by cars in recent years, are part of a signing campaign to reduce road-kill in Yosemite. Following a series of studies and well documented accounts by Yosemite National Park, Wildlife Conservation Society,…
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Backpacker Missing in the White Wolf Area
Yosemite National Park is asking for assistance from the public in obtaining information about a missing backpacker. Leon Zheng is believed to have started a solo trip around September 2, 2005 in Yosemite National Park. A full-scale search for Zheng was initiated on September 7, 2005, involving about 30 ground searchers, dog teams, and helicopters.…
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Working In Yosemite Experience To Remember For Interns
Rochester Eccentric: “Janine Dauzy saw a lot of black bears this summer. She saw so many, in fact, that she knew the tag numbers on about 15 of them by heart. She recognized their individual behaviors – which one stole a granola bar from a campground and which was roaming with her cubs among tents,…
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Happy Birthday NPS
On August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson approved an act of Congress creating the National Park Service and directing it “to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life [in the national parks] and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as…
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Water Involved Accidents Claim the Lives of Two Visitors
NPS: Two visitors in Yosemite National Park have died in the last week due to water-related accidents. Rachael Neil, 22, of Mesa. Arizona was hiking with friends on the John Muir Trail above Nevada Fall. Neil slipped while jumping from rock to rock about ¼ mile above the waterfall and was pulled down stream and…
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Irish Citizen killed in Yosemite fall
RTE News: “The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that an Irish man died following a fall at the Yosemite National Park in the US state of California yesterday morning. It is believed the man was hiking with three friends in the Yosemite Falls area of the park when he lost his footing and fell…
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Date of Adams Photograph Finally Uncovered
Yahoo! News: “US astronomers said they had pinpointed the moment and location when one of the most famous landscape pictures in photographic history was taken. “Autumn Moon, the High Sierra from Glacier Point,” taken by Ansel Adams in Yosemite National Park, is a thrilling view of the American West, featuring a waxing Moon rising over…
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Legal Wrangling Could End Climbing In Yosemite
KTLA: “The rumble began high on the sheer cliff wall, like faraway thunder before a storm. A slab of granite as big as a railroad boxcar had let loose 1,300 feet up Glacier Point’s age-worn face. The million-pound rock cartwheeled and shattered, tracing a plume of dust downward toward Peter Terbush. In his last earthbound…