I usually spend Christmas at the Lodge, and will be driving up there tomorrow. I'll let you know if the situation is abnormal. Usually, the Mountain Room is tied up with a special Christmas dinner, but the cafeteria is open as usual. Over at Currie Village, the main cafeteria line may be closed on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, but when they do that they set up a much smaller buffet over by tby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Just a comment: Always bring ear plugs when you stay in the tent cabins. Otherwise, some child will scream all night in the tent next door. If you bring the earplugs, then Murphy's Law insures that it won't happen, and you won't have needed to bring them.... I've stayed in Curry many times at Christmas. Most days the regular cafeteria has been open, and when it hasn't, they have set up a sby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Great photos. Thanks. About Fort Monroe: The name was a bit of a joke. Monroe was a popular negro stage driver on the line at the time it was being built as a private toll road. from Wikisource: The company maintained a series of stations on the road for servicing the stages; these were spaced at roughly 4-mile intervals. Within the present park boundaries, the stations were Four Mile Sby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
If it's just for a night or two, I'd say to use your own tent. With good warm sleeping bags But for four nights I'm not so sure. I've stayed over Christmas at least a dozen times, and the weather has varied from deep snow and bitter cold to freezing rain and deep slush. Or sunshine and no snow. Curry Village has its cafeteria, but it also has the reading room building where you and your GF cby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotechick-on We found it before 2004. In 2004 I looked extensively but couldn't find the darn pipe. Did find a spoon in the area though to replace one a marmut stole from me while staying on Quarter Dome. This year looked again to no avail... With your pict. in hand someone should be able to find it... at least the same spot... USGS maps are pretty much spot on... (found the Yose. Grantby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
QuoteBearproof About the spring...I remember as a kid seeing a hand-made sign on the route up to Half Dome pointing to the spring, and there being a use trail over to it. I had seen it shown on my Yosemite Valley topo map (not USGS but an aftermarket map) from the 80's, so I looked for it with my kids on one of my Half Dome hikes (2003)...and found it. Heading up the Half Dome trail, while stiby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotequmqats Where's the best spot on-trail to head off-trail to get to the two Quarter Domes? advTHAaNKSnce It's easy. As you come up the Half Dome Trail, keep an eye on the terrain to your right. When you can see the low point in the saddle between the trail and the ridge up to Quarter Domes, just ease on over there and walk up the ridge. It's pretty open terrain. You can eyeball it.by wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotechick-on Really wanted to go up the first gully which spied from Quarter Domes... figured the bush would be delicious... but gave it a go anyway. when the gully is free of snow next year may give it another try but stay higher and try to work around the lower shrub ... really hesitant to come down that gully with a pack on... checked it out from above... looks yummy. Here it is fromby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotechick-on wherever... looking at your maps... from where you placed #10 looks like you went the same way. although maybe you came from the north entirely...??? not a bad route looks like from Indian rock down to the arch... then down to the meadow below then east for nice views... Hopefully someone is interested in this crap. Wonderful. I love to see someone else doing this stuff. Iby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotetanngrisnir3 Just wondering, but I can't seem to find any pics of the tower (besides these) on the web; only climbing route descriptions. If it isn't KP, does anyone know what it is? Yes, The Rostrum in your photo is on the south side of the Merced River, at the broad outcrop and roadside gawking area a half mile west of the Wawona Tunnel. I haven't climbed at Kat Pinnacle, but the neby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
QuoteThaFlash_LA So I got lost on that old road once, I stayed on when I should have moved to the Pohono trail. But looking back, it's actually quite nice and I might want to actually plan to do that trip in the future. What I'm thinking is to actually get up to the peak of the hill once I get around and see the view down to the other side. But It was very dry in October, is there running water aby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quoteeeek Construction for the Glacier Point Water Well will begin November 3 with well completion expected by November 12. Beginning next season (after well testing), trenching alongside the existing road and along existing utility alignments will take place to connect the new water well to the existing utility system. The well is being constructed to replace the surface water sources currentlby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quoteforrestranger ah ha! i did the youtube suggestion and realized i've seen it tons of times. lol (just didn't know it)... how does one get a closer look? what trail (if any) would i use? Go up the Yosemite Falls Trail. Bill-e-g's photo taken with a long lens from that trail shows people on the Lost Arrow, and others above them on top of the cliff. And to the far right you can see someby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotebill-e-g Going to the top of the fall and back from the notch is much harder than just going to the top of Upper Cathedral. Much. Can't stress this enough. It's a true bush whack, busting thru manzanita and deadfall... esp. if you go up and down directly from the notch. (I put one pict. of looking up at where the notch is from just west of it... yummy) Even when you get down to tby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Agreed. If it had been any endangered species, instead of deer, they might have gotten a lot more....by wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotebill-e-g Are you sure about wooden pipe not withstanding pressure? http://www.sewerhistory.org/grfx/components/pipe-wood1.htm I think I saw something about HH using wooden pipes at one time too. Here's a map of GP Hotel: http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/yosemite_resources/mather_years.html#page_648 Nice references. Thanks. Of course a new wooden pipe can withstand pressure,by wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotetanngrisnir3 One other thing: I've often heard that, once up there, ascending to the top of Middle C. is difficult (but it would offer the best view of El Cap for pics, most likely), but I've never heard exactly why. Is technical climbing necessary somewhere up close to the summit? Sort of looks like it from the angle of the shots here. According to Roper's Guide, the notch between themby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotebill-e-g It's still in use. If you look at the topo map above you see the tank at GP. The other link I put a pict. of the metal pipe above the second tank. All in good working order... Sort of confused by some of the other statement/assumptions. Fairly certain they are pumping water up to the tank above Glacer Pt. from the Merced. OK. Perhaps I was too obscure. The system is stilby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotehotrod4x5 I don't know how safe this one would be in winter. Even if there is no snow on the valley floor, or up this chute, there will be snow on top, which on a sunny day, could slide down without much notice. Comments? Actually, you have it backwards. The top is often sunny and therefore snow-free in the early and late winter, but the chutes hold snow for a long time. They get vby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quoteszalkowski One would surmise that the spring feeding it was the main source of water for the Glacier Point Hotel/Mountain House 'complex' which burned to the ground in 1969. (Presumably to the dismay of all the four-footed creatures that called it home. My first visit to Glacier Point was 1-2 months before the fire and I can personally attest that, at that time, "Rattrap" was aby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotetanngrisnir3 Oh, and do you have any pics of the view across, taken from the waterworks? Not really. All the distant views are better had from the Four Mile Trail, Pohono Trail, or from Sentinel Dome...by wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Sorry. Yes, the second sentence under "Glacier Point Waterworks" should say "Union Point". If you can fix that, please do. It would have to be metal pipe above the pump house. The pressure from a head of over 800 feet is on the order of 400 psi. That's about five times what you probably have in your pipes at home. I wouldn't expect plastic pipe sitting out in the sun fby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotebill-e-g I'm thinking your enticing me to do this sooner rather than later... since I've mentioned this to you a couple of times... May play hookey next week and just do it... I think you probably also know I really want any info you got on any other routes you enjoy. Is there a railing at Old Insp? Kudos on that shot of Silver Strand btw... gotta get there in early spring now mysby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
tanngrisnir3 wrote: I've always been interested in Tree Chute (and how navigable it is) and Phantom Valley, esp. in regards to pics. ******************* OK. It's time to wrap up the other south side hikes from my list of off-trail stuff around Yosemite Valley. See thread: Off-Trail Thread This group of hikes would be #23-26 on my list. I talked about Cathedral Spires Gully inby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotetanngrisnir3 Excellent post. Does/has anyone get to this area by hiking in from the south, ala parking somewhere on the road like McGurk Meadows and then proceeding north? Seem like an obvious option because of the lack of climbing. I don't object to it, but my g/f has vertigo, and it makes going up things up bit dicey. Absolutely. I've done it many times from McGurk Meadow. I haveby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
In response to an earlier request, I will add some details about hiking up from the south side of Yosemite Valley. I had previously commented about hikes to do on the north side of the Valley during cool weather, when other routes are still mired in snow. The following are hot weather hikes, in the sense that they are on the shady side of the valley, and can be done when the Falls Trail is likeby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
You wrote: Just going from memory (never having stopped and taken it) is that road the one that has one end/start point on North Side Road where the Park Service sort of dumps/stores old dead trees and such? I'll be there on Halloween (first time ever!) to w/the g/f for photography, and will give one of these a go. ******* No, you are describing the valley end of the Old Big Oak Flat Road,by wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
bill-e-q wrote: ...looks like you ventured off the road to get the shots of the cascades... other great features to spy from that road... Silver Strand, Widows Tears, and Elephant Rock ************* Less than a hundred yards. There is an outcrop with a view, as I recall. I went there trying to get a clear shot of Elephant Rock, but there was too much smoky haze in that direction...by wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
tanngrisnir3wrote: Thanks! I'm thinking specifically of the ones on the south wall of the valley, as I've done some of the ones on the north wall....The south wall is something I've driven by my whole life and never, until recently, considered/thought about ascending, as I'm sure millions of other people have also done. I'm always looking for new photographic perspectives, and assiduously aby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Tanngrisnir3 wrote about photo lookout points: Thanks! I'm thinking specifically of the ones on the south wall of the valley, as I've done some of the ones on the north wall, and as I mentioned, plan to do El Cap Gully very soon. The south wall is something I've driven by my whole life and never, until recently, considered/thought about ascending, as I'm sure millions of other people have alsoby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion