QuoteDave This is from Wednesday's Daily Report: El Portal Gas Station Closure On Friday, September 30, 2011, the operator of the El Portal gas station has been instructed to close down and terminate all services. A successor operator will be contracted by NPS to install replacement equipment and operate the station as soon as possible. During the closure period when services are not availabby plawrence - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
I presume this Winter Use Plan is only for Yellowstone National Park, or does it cover other national parks?by plawrence - General Discussion
Quoteparklover Quotetanngrisnir3 I've never really had a problem with them, and the pizza at Curry is actually unexpectedly awesome. Take my advice, however, and avoid the chili in a bread bowl in the Mountain Room. Microwaved. Tough as a plastic garbage can lid. I have never seen chili in a bread bowl served in the Mountain Room Restaurant but only at the bar across the way. I wonder if iby plawrence - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quoteeeek QuoteAlmostThere I actually have one of those, it doesn't violate the patent either. It's sold everywhere under the guise of rain protection. Umbrellas work great. A whistle weighs less. But is it as effective as an umbrella?by plawrence - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Just for clarification, I wonder if everyone is referring to the pizza sold and served on the outdoor Pizza Deck in Curry Village, and not the pizza that's sometimes included in the Curry Dinning Room buffet. The pizza that was sometimes served as part of the all-you-can-eat buffet was truly lousy, worse than even DiGiorno's. The pizza that's served on the pizza deck (at least as of 2010 �by plawrence - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Thanks for sharing the photos. Were all the fish you caught, caught & released, or did you save one or two for dinner?by plawrence - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quoteparklover Don't even get me started on the Lodging in Yosemite. We stayed at the Ahwahnee for our 20th anniversary a few years ago and it was a such a nightmare that I wrote a three page letter. The last time I stayed at the Ahwahnee (about seven years ago now), I arrived quite late (around 2:00 AM in the morning since I had didn't leave my work until 8:00 PM, and didn't leave my homeby plawrence - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
QuoteDan At the top of the ridge, on your right as you head up (north) is the top of a rock wall and Agassiz Column.. Here's an old stereoscopic photograph that matches Dan's description of going up the old Four Mile Trail and viewing Agassiz Column on the right of the trail. On the lower lefthand corner of this photograph you'll noticed the old Four Mile Trail turning a tight corner of a sby plawrence - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Actually, upon further review, your link DID work, but in an unexpected way. It downloaded the PDF file onto my computer. That's the first time I experienced that clicking on a link on this forum. (Note: the link I provided on my post above just takes one to the Google Patent page where one can view the PDF file online (without it being downloaded onto one's computer).by plawrence - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotewherever I apologize if you have all seen this before. I couldn't find it in the forum search function. This patent application is too long to post here. But it's worth a look. The pdf version of the whole eight pages is at Bear Patent Link For some reason the above link just loops around back to your post on this message board. Hopefully, this link should work: Google Patents:by plawrence - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotewherever Well, the railing is certainly there, although the camera exposure could have been better Are we to understand that the rock in this photo is the same rock that we see next to the historical photo? If so, then this certainly is Agassiz Column, and another reason why the park service should trim back the brush and trees around the railing at Union Point.... The one thing thaby plawrence - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotebasilbop Here's the rock I believe to be Agassiz Column: Although it's hard to tell, in the second picture, the Union Point railing is (barely) visible between the two tall trees. I not sure if the one above is it. (Also I can't see the railing that you mention.) Quote Here's another view (or another rock...), further up the trail, from the side: This one I'm more certby plawrence - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
MCA which owned Yosemite Park and Curry Company was pressed to give back its concessions after MCA was bought by the Japanese conglomerate Matsushita Electric Industrial Company in December of 1990. It was the result of the strong anti-Japanese sentiment among the American public at a time when a lot of Japanese companies were buying a lot of American real estate due to the very strong Japaneseby plawrence - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
I've been to multiple National Parks, and the overall food quality at Yosemite is actually BETTER than most of them. My main beef with DNC is the quality and price of their lodging accommodations. The biggest ripoff now is the obscene price they now charge for a crappy canvas tent cabin in the summer. There's absolutely no freaking way they should be charging more than $50 for these very rusby plawrence - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotechick-on Quoteplawrence Interesting, the rangers never mentioned to you about the restrictions of where you can have a campfire? Never mentioned that campfires are not allowed above 9,600 feet? Of course they mention that. That's what I figured. So the rangers are informing and educating the peeps about the restrictions, but some people (too many people in my opinion) choose to ignoreby plawrence - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotebill-e-g They need to just educate the peeps getting the permits. How many times have I gotten a permit? Nearly every time: "I don't have fires, period" which is followed by "Well, if it's cold you can have one" or "Well, you are allowed to have one" or "You can have a campfire, that's cool" In other words... they aren't helping the causeby plawrence - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
If there's already a satellite capable of doing this up in orbit, then the incremental cost of obtaining the information from the satellite shouldn't be that exorbitant. But I'm not sure if there is a satellite in orbit capable of providing the Park Service with this information in real time vs. 12 or 24 hours after the fact, hence my suggestion of equipping an airplane with the necessary equipmby plawrence - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quoteszalkowski Quoteplawrence Maybe the park service should have planes with infrared sensors that can spot illegal campfires from the air. And when one is spotted the pilot will radio in the location so a backcountry rangers can go in a cite and then escort the backpackers out of the wilderness. That could help eliminate this problem of illegal campfires. Relegating the satellite networkby plawrence - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Maybe the park service should have planes with infrared sensors that can spot illegal campfires from the air. And when one is spotted the pilot will radio in the location so a backcountry rangers can go in a cite and then escort the backpackers out of the wilderness. That could help eliminate this problem of illegal campfires.by plawrence - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Some interesting use of words in this announcement. Quoteeeek Opportunity at Trail of 100 Giants SEQUOIA NATIONAL FOREST The Trail of 100 Giants, located on the Western Divide Ranger District in Giant Sequoia National Monument, is one of the most popular recreation sites in the Sequoia National Forest. People from all over the world visit the trail each summer, an estimated 5,000 people peby plawrence - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotebasilbop On a separate note, I tried to follow the old alignment from below Union Point upbound, but the beginning is completely overgrown with manzanita and other stubborn, hardwood shrubbery. I gave up after going maybe 20 yards in 15 minutes Yup, been there, tried that. I think the radio tower installation above (southeast) of Union Point is on one of the old trail alignments. Quby plawrence - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
I might just be able to make it! (Hope they haven't ran out of the Häagen-Dazs ice cream cups.)by plawrence - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Thanks for mapping the overlay! Something very interesting that I noticed about the overlay in regards to the Old Four Mile Trail and Moran Point. It looks like an old alignment of the Four Mile Trail actually went right by Moran Point. According the overlay, going downhill from Glacier Point, it looks like the Four Mile trail via very short switchbacks went first by (or very near Moran Poby plawrence - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Yup. The aspens around North Lake always seem to be one of the first ones to turn to yellow and gold.by plawrence - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotechicagocwright Clouds Rest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaSZGnFKO6w (Use the 'video' html tag for YouTube videos instead of the 'img' tag)by plawrence - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quoteriverkat Quoteplawrence The L.A. Times article didn't delve too deeply how the cattle grazing specifically impacts the survivability of California's golden trout. I know the major impact grazing has on the meadows itself, but exactly what's the negative impacts on the streams and creeks in regards to the golden trout? I would guess it has a lot to do with poo and a little bit to do wiby plawrence - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
I presume by your description of the road that you took Buchanan Road from Raymond to Le Grand. Just wondering why you chose that route instead of heading just a little bit further south on Raymond Road to Daulton Road (which is paved) then up Road 29 to Avenue 26? This would have led you to Chowchilla where you could take either Hwy 99 or Hwy 152 to your final destination. But I have to agrby plawrence - General Discussion
QuoteOhnivy-Drak A nice report from one of the crazies. http://www.snwburd.com/bob/trip_reports/clouds_rest_3.html I'm afraid that Bob Burd has been spending too much time on the National Geographic website. In the last paragraph of his trip report that you linked above, he refers to the river below Half Dome as the Tuolumne River. Sigh... (But unlike the National Geographic,by plawrence - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotehotrod4x5 Quoteryanmj maybe they ment the river that is directly below the face of it but they still messed up, i think its tenya creek at that point The Tuolumne River is no where near Half Dome or the valley. Poor research. Agreed. It obvious the person who wrote the copy simply isn't too familiar with Yosemite Valley. I think it should be basic knowledge for anyone who purports tby plawrence - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion