Search results for: “Yosemite Search and Rescue”
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Bring Your Junior Rangers To Yosemite and Have Some Fun April 25th
April 25th is the third annual National Junior Ranger Day. Join NPS and DNC employees for a day full of scheduled and drop-in activities. Join a junior ranger walk and restoration project at 10am and 2pm (ages 7-13), as well Wee Wild Ones for younger participants. From 12-4pm drop in to the Exploration Fair and…
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Toyota Donates More Than $600,000 and 5 Hybrid Vehicles to Yosemite
The Yosemite Fund was presented with a check totaling more than $600,000 and five Toyota Prius vehicles this morning at a press conference held at the University of California at Merced. In addition, Yosemite National Park and UC Merced unveiled plans for the grant which will support a number of environmental leadership and education programs…
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Search Continues for Missing Hiker
The search is continuing in the Glacier Point area for missing hiker Ssmyn Barrios. Barrios is 24 years old, a native Honduran, and about 5’7″ tall. Barrios speaks Spanish and broken English was last seen wearing blue jeans, a blue t-shirt, and black shoes. If you were in the area of Sentinel Dome, Washburn Point,…
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Rescue training video
I called in sick the other day and went to Nevada Falls. On the way up, I stumbled onto this YOSAR training at the bridge below Vernal Falls. Link to video (one minute and forty-six seconds) Link to Friends of YOSAR (Yosemite Search and Rescue) Photo by Brian Helfrich
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Man Rescued from Peak after Fall
[Yosemite Search and Rescue] and the [Mono County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue] team were called in to rescue an injured climber after he slipped and fell while traversing an ice field just outside the east entrance of Yosemite National Park. Tahoebonanza.com: “Kerry Knovak, 41, suffered a possible broken ankle after sliding about 20 feet at…
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Yosemite in the News: 1870-1913
The New York Times has made scans of early articles avaialble for free. A quick search of “Yosemite” turned up some interesting results between 1870 and 1913: 1870 A letter to the editor from one of the people who’d settled in Yosemite before 1864 when the valley was taken over by the state of California…
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Search Scaled Back for Missing Hiker
The search effort for Ottorrina Bonaventura who has been missing since July 30th was scaled back over the weekend as hope of finding the 80 year old diminished. Fox28.com: “There’s still no sign of an 80-year-old Indiana woman lost in a wilderness area of California’s Yosemite National Park. Ottorrina Bonaventura of Schererville has been missing…
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More Trip Planning: Hiking, Camping, and Fishing In Yosemite
Craig from Tennessee writes: I visited Yosemite a few years ago and was amazed. I went with a buddy and our time was kind of pressed. We hiked through the Mariposa Grove and camped in the Valley for two nights. I had a great time and really enjoyed the trip, just wish we could have…
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Mother, 60, possibly missing in Yosemite Area
Atlanta Journal Constitution: “Xiaodong Yuan’s mother was visiting him from China and wanted to see two iconic American tourist spots: Yosemite National Park and Las Vegas. Yuan, a 34-year-old computer analyst who lives in Stockbridge, and Zhaohui Wang, who had just turned 60, flew to Las Vegas last Tuesday and then drove a rented car…
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New Rules Put Rangers and Climbers At Odds
This year there was a change in the rules for overnight camping in Yosemite Valley allowing visitors to camp in Yosemite Valley only 7 days. Though the move was meant to encourage more visitors to explore other areas of the Park it’s left members of the climbing community out in the cold. South Florida Sun-Sentinel:…