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  • Photo of the Day: P1110068 by Edie Howe-Byrne

    I consider Edie to be one of the luckiest people in the world because she gets to spend every waking moment in a place as beautiful as this. Beautiful shot Edie. Photo by Edie Howe-Byre via Flickr.

  • Pardon Our Dust, We’re Adding New Features

    If you’ve been watching in the last 20 minutes you’ve seen things happening with the blog as we add some new features. Although it’s ugly at the moment, you can now use the box at the top of the sidebar to sign up for updates from Yosemite Blog to be sent directly to your email.…

  • Wednesday Weekend Weather: August 17th – 19th 2007

    If you’re headed up to the park this weekend looks like you’re in for some great weather. Not a lot of rain forecast but decent temperatures and lots of sun so make sure to take that extra sunblock. Don’t foreget it’s easy to get a sunburn at higher altitudes on cooler days because you don’t…

  • Rangers Bust Marijuana Growers

    On Monday Yosemite National Park Rangers, in cooperation with the Mariposa County Sheriffs Office, the Army National Guard, and the California Department of Justice, raided 3 illegal marijuana growing sites inside park boundaries seizing an estimated $22 million in mature plants. NPS: “The illegal cultivation sites bore the characteristics of a Mexican drug trafficking enterprise,…

  • Perseids Make for a Great Show This Weekend

    Headed up to the park this weekend? Stay up late and watch the Perseid meteor shower. The annual Perseid meteor shower is expected to be at its best this year, producing one or two meteors per minute during its peak hours Sunday night and early Monday morning. Meteor showers occur when the Earth passes through…

  • Photo of the Day: Hiker Near Lower Yosemite Falls by Loyd Schutte

    In celebrating my birthday today’s Photo of the Day is one of my favorite photos from my collection. I shot this early one spring morning. I’m not sure who the guy in the photo is. He just happened to be in the right place at the right time. If you have photos you’d like to…

  • Wednesday’s Weekend Weather: Aug 10 – Aug12

    Here’s a new feature I’m adding to help those headed up to the park for the weekend, Wednesday’s Weekend Weather. Every wednesday I’ll post the weekends weather forecast from weather.com so you know whether or not taking that extra sweater is a good idea or if you should get some SPF 80 sunblock instead. So…

  • Do the Crime in Yosemite, Do the Time in Yosemite (well sort of)

    Most people have seen or heard the commercials “What happen in Vegas, Stays in Vegas” but when you run afoul the law in Yosemite “What happens in Yosemite, Stays in Yosemite.” That’s because Yosemite is one of only two National Parks (the other being Yellowstone) that have it’s own court house. So when you get…

  • Don’t Like the Smell of Sweaty Feet? Don’t Cancel Your Trip Yet.

    I spoke to Adrienne Freeman with the National Park Service yesterday and if you’ve been thinking about canceling your trip to Yosemite because the prospect of smelling the aroma of sweaty-feet from the recently discovered Yosemite bog-orchid, don’t worry about it. The populations of the flowers are so small you probably won’t notice the smell…

  • Great Weather in Yosemite

    If you’re coming up to the park the weather is beautiful right now with highs for this week forecast in the mid to upper 60’s but chilly nights down to the mid 30’s. The skies are clear and blue. Now is also the start of waterfall season when the upper elevation snows start melting and…