In today's Entertainment section of the SF paper: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/07/27/entertainment/e052330D96.DTL&type=entertainment Jack Hanna wards off grizzly with pepper spray Associated Press July 27, 2010 04:52 PM (07-27) 16:52 PDT Columbus, Ohio (AP) -- TV host and zookeeper Jack Hanna says he took his own advice and used pepper spray on a grizzby KenS - General Discussion
Bear gets into car for peanut butter and jelly sandwich, honks horn, goes on short joyride By Yesenia Robles The Denver Post Posted: 07/23/2010 09:43:31 PM PDT This photo provided by Ben Story shows a bear inside Story's car early morning on Friday, July 23, 2010, in Larkspur, Colorado. Ralph Story doesn't hold anything against bears, even though one broke into his car early Friday mornby KenS - General Discussion
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Eyewitness account from her climbing partner: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=136210793068504&topic=142by KenS - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Climber sets records in scaling Yosemite icons By Miranda Simon Published: Thursday, Jul. 8, 2010 - 12:00 am When Alex Honnold made it to the top of Yosemite's imperious Half Dome two years ago – rope-less but serene up to the last slab – tourists gathered to ask him if he was crazy. Even the most hard-core climbers wonder how the 24-year-old Sacramento native can make it to the topby KenS - General Discussion
California May Drop Rock, and Geologists Feel the Pain By JENNIFER STEINHAUER Published: July 13, 2010 LOS ANGELES — Empirically speaking, geologists are not a particularly irascible group. But those who make their living studying rocks, minerals and gems in California — and increasingly those scientists beyond the state’s borders — are enraged over a bill in Sacramento that would knby KenS - General Discussion
July 6, 2010 at 10:28 PM How tall is Rainier, really? By Sandi Doughton Nearly two decades after Global Positioning System (GPS) technology was first used to measure Mount Rainier, a team of surveyors will hike to the summit this month to see if the latest generation of GPS can pin a more accurate number on the Northwest's tallest mountain. "I fully expect that we'll get a diffeby KenS - General Discussion
Jeffrey Shooting Star (Dodecatheon jeffreyi)? From the Laws Field Guide of the Sierra Nevada, "very common in wet areas 2K to 10K".by KenS - General Discussion
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June 23, 2010, 12:01 am Do Sport Bars and Gels Provide the Energy of Sports Drinks? By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS According to a study published this spring in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, people who exercise for more than about two hours at a time can benefit from sports drinks. Most of us know that, of course. The carbohydrates in the drinks provide immediate fuel,by KenS - General Discussion
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Why is it that you have few, if any, bear attacks in Yosemite and the Sierra in general? Is it because of the bear management program or an overabundance of food? Some black bear attacks in other areas: June 21, 2010 at 2:10 PM Camper injured by bear near St. Regis Montana wildlife officials say a Washington state man was injured by a black bear that bit through his tent at a primitiby KenS - General Discussion
A New Panorama at an Old Marvel By JENNIFER STEINHAUER Published: June 19, 2010 BOULDER CITY, Nev. — Generations of photo albums are filled with images of children squinting in front of the enormous canyon here, one of the greatest engineering feats in America’s history. Now, an architectural epilogue to the Hoover Dam is nearly complete: a 1,060-foot, twin-rib concrete bridge floatiby KenS - General Discussion
Criminals are using bear spray in assaults and robberies: Nanaimo RCMP The Nanaimo Daily News June 5, 2010 NANAIMO — Nanaimo RCMP say the use of bear spray has become too common as police and safety advocates in several communities across the country call for stricter regulations on buying the substance. In Nanaimo, police say the noxious repellant winds up in the hands of criminalsby KenS - General Discussion
Yosemite. Cameras. Free. Any questions? It seems pretty reasonable to assume that if you're going to take a photography workshop, it should probably be someplace you actually want to take photos of. Yosemite National Park will do nicely, thank you. It turns out the nice folks at park guide publisher American Park Network and camera-makers Canon have again organized a series of digital phoby KenS - General Discussion
I just viewed "The Edge" (1997) starring Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin and Elle Mcpherson. It is by far, my favorite outdoor adventure film -- great actors, witty lines and scenic locations. It's worth viewing a second time just for the stalking bear scenes.by KenS - General Discussion
A Man Who Stopped Time to Set It in Motion Again By KAREN ROSENBERG Published: April 26, 2010 WASHINGTON — Technology moves fast, art slower. You could say that art is still catching up to Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), a pioneer of stop-motion photography and early filmmaking. ... His album “Yosemite Views,” made with considerable effort and at great expense, is certainly stunningby KenS - General Discussion
Livestock waste found to foul Sierra waters By Tom Knudson Published: Sunday, Apr. 25, 2010 - 12:00 am As director of the emergency room at the UC Davis Medical Center, Robert Derlet always wondered what made people sick. Each summer, on hiking trips into the high Sierra, he brought that curiosity along, asking himself: Where do you get infections in the wilderness? The most obviousby KenS - General Discussion
More photos of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/more_from_eyjafjallajokull.html Edit: fixing urlby KenS - General Discussion
While preparing for my hike around the Vogelsang area last summer, I came across this photostream of good size rainbows from Evelyn Lake. http://www.flickr.com/photos/colorchemist/3735816724/in/set-72157621672491084/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/colorchemist/3735020107/in/set-72157621672491084/ I too wish that people would do catch and release instead of fishing out a good spot.by KenS - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Eagle Scout Off The Hook New Hampshire decides to drop $25,000 bill for rescuing a scout on Mt. Washington Scott Mason, the Mass. Eagle Scout who got rescued off of Mt. Washington only to get slapped with a $25K fee, just got really lucky. The state of New Hampshire has decided not to make him pay up, citing extenuating personal circumstances and the fact that the teen is clearly not in aby KenS - General Discussion
08 APR 2010: ANALYSIS The Natural World Vanishes: How Species Cease To Matter Once, on both sides of the Atlantic, fish such as salmon, eels, and, shad were abundant and played an important role in society, feeding millions and providing a livelihood for tens of thousands. But as these fish have steadily dwindled, humans have lost sight of their significance, with each generation accepting a dby KenS - General Discussion
Last Footfall in Nepal By ETHAN TODRAS-WHITEHILL Published: March 21, 2010 ... Everyone who’s been to Nepal tells you the Himalayas are big. But nobody prepared me for the reality of breathing hard at altitudes already near those of some Rocky Mountain peaks, only to see a mountain rise another full height of the Rockies above me. If my fiancée, Jen, and I had driven this same route inby KenS - General Discussion
... " the term “tree” refers to their lifestyle, not their ancestry. To put it another way, beings that we call trees have evolved several times from different ancestors, whereas beings like ciliates, grasses or (for that matter) primates have evolved only once. Palms evolved into trees independently from species like oaks, for example. Moreover, plant species that exist as herbs or shruby KenS - General Discussion
Even in Hawaii it's not as safe as it was before. http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2010100225035by KenS - General Discussion
FEBRUARY 26, 2010 Where the CEOs Roam In rural Utah sits a massive luxury gated community By NANCY KEATES Woodland, Utah Deep in cattle country sits a gated community the size of Manhattan, where a small number of wealthy home owners can enjoy the feeling of living in the middle of nowhere—except for the 24-hour security, parties and cellphone access. That's the concept behind Wolf Creby KenS - General Discussion
(book review) FEBRUARY 18, 2010, 6:54 P.M. ET '180° South: Conquerors of the Useless' By Yvon Chouinard, Chris Malloy and Jeff Johnson Edited excerpts from "180° South: Conquerors of the Useless" Chris Malloy and Jeff Johnson, inspired by an obscure 1960s era film about a journey from Ventura, California, to Chilean Patagonia called Mountain of Storms, embarked on a journey oby KenS - General Discussion
Official: Mexican drug gangs have 'supersized' pot farms on public lands By Alicia Caldwell and Manuel Valdes Associated Press Posted: 03/01/2010 12:44:16 PM PST SEQUOIA NATIONAL FOREST — Not far from Yosemite's waterfalls and in the middle of California's redwood forests, Mexican drug gangs are quietly commandeering U.S. public land to grow millions of marijuana plants and using smuggledby KenS - General Discussion
Europeans introduce avalanche air bags in Utah By PAUL FOY, Associated Press Writer (02-28) 18:09 PST ALTA, Utah (AP) -- A Swiss engineer and leading avalanche-safety expert Manuel Genswein was at a Wasatch ski resort east of Salt Lake City this weekend to show off a device meant for surviving a deadly snow slide — a set of air bags designed into a backpack for floating atop avalanche debrby KenS - General Discussion
(off-topic) http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/201003/jobless-america-future?x=57&y=1by KenS - General Discussion