Tag: hetch hetchy
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More Areas Closed
More areas have closed within Yosemite National Park as a result of the government shutdown.
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Hetch Hetchy Road Open
If you like rattlesnakes and big dam things then I highly encourage you to give it a look.
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High Water Poses Danger Even When You Think It’s Safe
This years snow pack is well above normal and we’re really happy to have had so much rain and snow. But it also means that as temperatures heat up, and they’ve been really hot of late, that all that runoff from the melting snow has to go somewhere.
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Instapicked: Go jump in a lake
Thank you. I think I will.
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Rim Fire Update
Here’s last nights update on the Rim Fire. More information will come this morning after 9am when the fire command posts the status of the fire and any spread it’s experienced online.
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Rim Fire Closures in Yosemite
The Rim Fire has made it’s way well into Yosemite National Park and is burning in the north west side of the park and the areas adjacent to Hetch Hetchy. Currently a number of closures are in place for public safety and to allow fire crews to actively fight the fire and prepare defenses around…
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Hetch Hetchy Road Closed
The Hetch Hetchy Road is closed indefinitely after park officials discovered water undercutting a hillside beneath the road making the road “extremely unstable”. The road is still intact, but water undercutting the hillside below the pavement has made it “extremely unstable,” Cobb said. The National Park Service temporarily closed the road in December due to…
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SF Voters say “No” to Hetch Hetchy
A ballot proposal that would have led to the dismantling of O’Shaughnessy Dam and drained Hetch Hetcy valley has been defeated by San Francisco voters.
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Thinking About Hiking Around Hetch Hetchy? Think Again.
If you were thinking about doing some hiking in the Hetch Hetchy area, maybe around back to Wapama Fall, you should probably start coming up with an alternate plan now.