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  • Fire. It’s a Natural Thing

    Carol from Indiana writes in to ask: “What’s happening in the high country behind half dome? On the live web cam from yosemite.org , from Sentinal Dome, there’s smoke rising. I thought I saw it yesterday, and now it’s even bigger. Is it another prescribed burn or something worse.” Well Carol there are a number…

  • Kate Asks About Visiting The Park In March

    Kate writes in to ask: I’ve recently moved to the Bay Area and am contemplating a 2 night first-time-ever trip to Yosemite around March 25. A few quick questions I was hoping you could answer: will there be enough to do (hiking wise) without needing special gear? How warm need clothing be (My boyfriend will…

  • Reader Sarah Asks About Tent Camping Over President’s Day Weekend

    Sarah writes in: I am planning a trip up there next month during President’s Day weekend. I have been looking at accommodations and saw a great deal for unheated tents in Curry Village for those days. I was wondering if you knew the general weather conditions for that time of year, and whether or not…

  • Some Smoke But Everything OK For Now

    Since the NPS website isn’t responding now I can’t link you back to the press release but there is a fire in the park up by El Capitan and Ribbon Creek. It has been decided that the fire should be suppressed rather than allowed to burn as many of the fires in Yosemite are and…

  • Tioga Slated To Open This Weekend

    I know a couple of you have been eagerly waiting so here it is, Tioga Pass will open this weekend to through traffic. NPS: Yosemite National Park Superintendent Mike Tollefson announced today that the Tioga Road (Highway 120 East through Yosemite National Park) will open for the season on June 17, 2006 at 8 a.m.…

  • 120 Closed Due to Road Work at Priest Grade

    If you’re traveling up the 120 route into Yosemite looks like you can expect a little longer drive than you’d planned. CalTrans is doing some emergency roadwork at the bottom of Priest Grade, a narrow winding section of road just below Big Oak Flat and Groveland. NPS:The Department of Transportation (Caltrans) will be closing State…

  • Reader Questions: What’s it like in December?

    Peter sent me an email and asked: “I was thinking about coming to Yosemite in December – I gotta make 2 pilgimages a year – and this year I’ve been lacking. Anyhow, what’s it like in December? Is there gonna be snow? Are there a lot of bears? Will I spend all my time in…

  • Bird of Paradise: High Sierra Vacation

    This job is great. I get to meet so many great and interesting people, take Jim Tweedie for instance. I came across Jim’s site the other day and saw some excellent photos of his vacation in the High Sierra with his brother. I sent off an email asking if he minded if I linked to…

  • What’s eating the trees?

    Many have noticed discoloration of lodgepole pine forests in the greater Tuolumne Meadows area. This is due to a tiny moth called the lodgepole needle miner. The larvae live inside pine needles, eating them from the inside out, and only emerging in the late summer as small gray moths for a few weeks in the…

  • Hetch Hetchy: Just Another Damn Getting Demolished

    Time: “To some, the O’Shaughnessy Dam is a monument to the skills of the Irish-American engineer who built it. Elegant is the word that Susan Leal, general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, uses to describe the curved wedge of rock and concrete that soars 300 ft. above the floor of the Hetch…