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  • NPS Wants to Give Badger Pass a Little Nip and Tuck

    The Badger Pass Ski Lodge has been in operation since 1935 and was the first alpine ski resort in California. Now this historically significant lodge is going to get some of the much needed repairs to help preserve this historical treasure for future generations. The rehabilitation would protect areas of primary historical significance, while allowing…

  • Interview: Michael Adams

  • Exciting Badger Pass Improvements

    This, finally, is the story that I’ve been dying to share with you for several weeks now. It was broken by Marek Warszowski at the Fresno Bee. It’s been very exciting to hear about the new improvements – the refurbishment of the ski lift (almost everything is new except the towers – including more comfortable…

  • Chongo

    The legend lives on: He was known as the king of the Yosemite lifers, that proud band of rock climbers, tightrope walkers and seekers who made camp on the margins of the law, sleeping under the black oaks and sequoias and California stars. On his shoulders he carried an 80-pound constellation of canvas stowage, books…

  • 2008 Tuolumne Planning Workbook

    The “other” great river flowing through Yosemite is the Tuolumne. It flows down the meadow by the same name, past the Glen Aulin High Sierra camp, and into the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. From there it slowly winds westward in an impressive canyon.  If you are more than a casual visitor, you appreciate all that the…

  • Something to Do this Summer in Tuolumne Meadows

    One of the coolest things about staying in Tuolumne Meadows is some of the great programs that take place at the Parsons Lodge (by Soda Springs). The 2008 Parsons Memorial Lodge Summer Series was just announced and it looks like an awesome schedule this year. All programs, unless otherwise noted, begin at 2 pm and…

  • NPS announces campground opening dates

    Although the Tioga Road has been open for a long time, the Tuolumne Meadows season doesn’t really seem to get underway until the campgrounds open up, so it’s always interesting to finally hear the opening dates. Scheduled opening dates: Crane Flat, White Wolf, Tuolumne Meadows, and Yosemite Creek Campgrounds June 20, 2008 Tamarack Flat Campground…

  • What Do You Want to Do About the Tuolumne

    After a long delay due to the setbacks with the Merced River Plan the Tuolumne River Plan is opening for comment with a host of workshops being held up in Tuolumne Meadows and the Planning Workbook being released in July. TUOLUMNE RIVER PLAN NEWS Yosemite’s Division of Planning is pleased to announce the summer public…

  • NPS Looking For Feedback on High Elevation Aquatic Resources Plan

    Yosemite National Park is preparing a High-Elevation Aquatic Resources Management Plan and Environmental Assessment (EA) to guide management actions by the National Park Service to protect Yosemite’s diverse high-elevation aquatic ecosystems and to restore natural composition, structure and function to systems that have been disturbed by past or ongoing human activities. The plan will include…

  • Slow Down! Save the Butterflies and the Bears

    If you’ve been driving around the park lately, you’ll see yellow caution signs on them with red bears. These mark places where bears have been hit by cars, which as far as I know is the leading cause of death to the parks bears. Currently, there is a major population explosion of California Tortoise Shell…