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AFun for the Start of Labor Day Weekend (video)
This has nothing to do with Yosemite but I saw it over at Kottke.org this morning and thought it was a great video and a good distraction for all the folks having to put up with the smoke and detours. Give it a watch and enjoy.
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El Portal Residents Allowed to Return – Yosemite View Lodge Reopens
Map of the fires burn activity as of August 31st courtesy National Park Service. As the main activity of the Big Meadow Fire moves to the north-northwest residents of Old El Portal and guests of the Yosemite View Lodge are allowed to return. At 7:30 PM on Monday, August 31, the evacuation of Old El…
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Big Meadow Fire Webcam Timelapse (video)
Last video not dramatic enough for you? Mymotherlode took all the webcam images and put them to a music score. Pretty cool! Photo by Mymotherlode.com.
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Alex Honnold Free Soloing Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome
Alex Honnold free solos Half Dome from Hennie vJ on Vimeo. Wow. He does it so non-chalantly too. Just like, “doo dee doo…walk in the park.”
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18Bears Killed by Speeding Cars So Far and the Busiest Tourist Weekend of the Summer is Right Around the CornerSpeeding cars barrel past a sign warning them to slow down in Yosemite National Park. Photo by Kai Schreiber. I just answered an email from reader Carrie who said, “A Yosemite park ranger told me yesterday that the park has lost 15 bears already this year due to careless drivers. Is this true?” (Authors note:…
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Sweetwater Sting Band Playing Just Outside Yosemite (video)
Here’s a great video of the Sweetwater String Band performing at the Mobil Mart gas station just down the hill from the Tioga Pass entrance to Yosemite in Lee Vining. Awesome video!
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Something To Do This Weekend? Learn About The Life of John Muir
Plan on being in Yosemite this Saturday for a discussion about the life and times of John Muir. Called “A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir” the discussion will take place from 2 to 5 p.m. Aug. 22 in the Parsons Memorial Lodge in Tuolumne Meadows as part of a Yosemite National Park…
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What If There Were No Bears In Yosemite?
A mother black bear (sow) and her cubs in Yosemite National Park. Photo by Steve Ryan. We don’t think much about our bears until they’re breaking into your car or stealing food off your picnic table. But what if there were no bears left in Yosemite? What if this wondrous part of Yosemite, the icon…
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Wet a Line in Yosemite
Releasing a small rainbow in the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne. Photo by Volker Neumann. Many visitors to Yosemite look at the nearly dry waterfalls and slow flowing rivers of late summer and think what a shame it is to have missed the grand floods of spring. Not fly fishermen though, for us late summer…
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