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Crash Survivor Returns After 25 Years
Twenty five years ago Donnie Priest, his mother and step father’s plane crashed into White Mountain just north of Tioga Pass in one of the deadliest winter storms to hit California. Now Priest, who lost both his legs due to frostbite, has returned to White Mountain to visit the place where he nearly lost his…
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Photo of the Day: Sentinel Dome by Eric Chavira
Today’s Photo of the Day comes to us from Eric Chavira who sent me this really cool photo he took on the top of Sentinel Dome over the holiday weekend. Great shot Eric. Thanks for sending it in. If you’d like to send in photos please feel free. You can email them to me at:…
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The Ice Rink is Open – Winter is coming!
The weather is still relatively balmy, but for those of us Jones-ing for a bit of snow and the onset of ski season, the opening of the ice skating rink is one of the first signs that winter is rapidly approaching. I’m not too much of an ice-skater, myself, but the spectacular location of this…
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Yosemite Ridge Gives Children With Chronic Illnesses a Second Chance
Modesto Bee: “Allen Karle’s lungs don’t always cooperate with a 10-year-old’s idea of fun. Asthma put the Modesto boy in a hospital for five days in January and five days again in May. ‘They’ve got him on so much medication, it’s ridiculous,’ said his mother, Sharon Karle. She’s got asthma too, though not as bad.…
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Photo of the Day: 1957 YP&CC Brochure
Well the Holiday weekend is over and we’ve got a bunch of cool things coming up. Thank you Edie for the great posts and photos over the last few days. To start off this weeks Photo of the Day we have not a photo, but a really cool brochure from 1957 put out by the…
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Moonrise, Black Friday, 2007
No hostile crowds of determined shoppers, no angst over not having money to spend, no fistfights in the parking lot over a contested parking spot. No canned music, no screaming kids on Santa’s lap, no elves with attitudes, no tacky Christmas decorations. No strings of lights drooping, no eco-friendly LEDs, no shards of shattered glass…
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Thanksgiving day road trip.
Well, it’s been a quiet week in Yosemite Valley. Frost has arrived, turning the cow parsnip flower bracts sublime. I met up with a coworker at breakfast by chance. What are you doing for Thanksgiving, I asked. “Just hanging out.” Would you like to head over Tioga Pass? I want to get over to Mono…
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Yosemite in Court Nov 28
I wanted to catch you before yall hit the road to spend Thanksgiving with your Aunt Betty. You need to be aware that the NPS is going to a 9th District court hearing to appeal a lower court ruling on case 07-15124 Friends of Yosemite Valley vs. Kempthorne. To get you up to date, the…
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Photo of the Day: Bloody Canyon Sunrise. Photo by Flickmor
I’m always trying to find new and interesting photos of Yosemite for Photo of the Day and Flickr never seems to let me down. Today’s Photo of the Day is a really cool sunrise shot of Bloody Canyon. Bloody Canyon was for years the only way into Yosemite from the Mono Lake area to the…
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A. Phimister Proctor & Half Dome
Now there’s a name for you! Why is he the subject of today’s blog? Well, we all should know by now that the first ascent up Half Dome was done by George Anderson in 1875. As any 3rd grade history student knows, he did this by drilling holes and made his own staircase with steel…