Going out of business sale! Because the Glacier Point Hotel burned down in 1969, the great Sentinel Dome Dump will convert from trash to sacred artifacts in less than five years. This is your last chance to get in on the fun. Help yourself. There is plenty for all. Some photos can be found on the original link here: trash link Here are a few more: Or, cleaned upby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quoteags I suspect that I'm late to the party - but since you mention it, what exactly is going on with the Mylar balloons? I'm just back from a trip around the Cherry Creek area, and combined with my trip last year, this area has resulted in a total of 5 Mylar balloon finds. I can understand that they take a long time (> a human lifetime?) to decompose, but is there some kind of Bermuda Balloby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
QuotePineCone Based on the speech we get drilled into us every year at the Yosemite Facelift event by the Yosemite archeological staff, that pipe tobacco can is definitely older than 50 years old, and as such, should be left undisturbed. Presumably, so they can study the habits of long-departed smokers and beer drinkers (the later in the form of crumbling, ancient rusted steel beer cans) I'mby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
I stayed there the nights of Aug 2 and 3. There was water at both the camp and at the faucet in the adjacent campground. There were hot showers at the camp. But they weren't wasting any water that I could see. There had been some daily drizzle for both of those days and on the previous four days (when I was at Vogelsang and Merced Lake). There was a half hour gully-washer at Vogelsang onby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
I think that you are right. The vegetation looks correct, and that switchback is in this old photo: The photo is from here: http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/tioga_road/east_side.html I hadn't realized that the east side road was built by 1909, though Tioga Road itself was impassable at that time. The gov't acquired Tioga Road in 1915. The mystery photo is from a park brochure datedby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quoteplawrence Quotewherever Finally, a mystery from the same era. This taken of Tioga Pass Road, after it was reopened. In those days, the road still went via Apen Valley and White Wolf, and had a loop near May Lake. Even so, where was this taken? I have no idea. I'm pretty sure that the extension down to Lee Vining didn't exist yet, so it would be inside the park somewhere. Tioby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
QuoteBearproof Yosemite Zoo?? Hadn't heard of that one before. Any idea where it was? see: Believe it or Not, Yosemite National Park Once had a Zoo at link: zoo It would have been wherever the old musuem was before the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial donated the current one to the park, I suppose. Another good source of historical documents is www.nps.gov/history For example, see theby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Here's another one. From today's Mercury News: Honoring the grizzly bear By Jessica A. York SantaCruz Sentinel DAVENPORT — Giant, menacing and effective predators, grizzly bears did not stand a chance of peaceful coexistence in California as the Gold Rush drew human competition by the hordes. By the 1920s, grizzly bears could no longer be found statewide, officials said. “They weby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Great report and photos! Thanks. That is one of my favorite neighborhoods....by wherever - Backpacking and Hiking Yosemite and the Sierra
excerpts: A Fremont third-grade teacher described as an experienced hiker failed to return home Sunday from a backpacking trip in the Sierras. Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks officials issued a missing person alert Tuesday for Gregory Muck, 46, who lives in Santa Cruz.... ...Park officials are asking anyone who may have seen Muck between Aug. 10 and 17 in Kings Canyon National Parkby wherever - Backpacking and Hiking Yosemite and the Sierra
Great photos! Thanks. Love the face. I've been there many times, and never seen the shadows fill it out like that. Be sure to hit the east summit next time you are there. It has a much sharper edge, and the view over to Pyweack Cascade is fantastic.by wherever - Backpacking and Hiking Yosemite and the Sierra
Like I said, cut some and leave some. See: Debate Simmers Over Forest Recovery at link: news story As far as I can tell, the people posting here want to either cut everything or cut nothing. Dumb. The real debate ought to be how to get some of the logging fees into escrow for forest reclamation, so it doesn't just disappear into the general fund. They already do some of this sortby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Like I said: ....Of course, using a more moderate approach also has the advantage that everyone on both sides of the argument will hate you.by wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Why must people always overdo everything? It's dumb to go in and do the equivalent of clear-cutting, leaving a torn-up wasteland. It's also dumb to leave it all in place as giant woodpile waiting for an even more disastrous fire. What they should do is clear out at least half of it, leaving islands of untouched stuff for the habitat that you referred to. The cleared areas would allow for easyby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
It's already in the outskirts of Foresta.by wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
It sounds like a great trip. Thanks for the photos.by wherever - Backpacking and Hiking Yosemite and the Sierra
Great report! Thanks.by wherever - Backpacking and Hiking Yosemite and the Sierra
Quotehegel Apparently lightning has caused some power failures in the park. Yosemite conservancy tells me that trail reservations are 100% first come first served because there is no internet connection. I don't know how widespread this outage is. I'm going in on Wed; should be interesting in terms of obtaining a permit. Usually not a problem, even same day, for just me, arriving by 11:00 at bigby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
QuoteKen M I'm not always so quick to make assumptions. Primitive people THE WORLD OVER used stacked stones for various purposes, sometimes religious, sometimes astronomical. Would we be so quick to condemn and dismantle the above, if we found out that it was constructed by a group of indians, recreating ancestral religious formations, on old ancestral grounds (which Yosemite WAS)? I don'by wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotechick-on Personally I dunno if hiking with others is necessarily safer. Not safer, no, in the sense that you are just as likely to get hurt. But at least they won't spend a week looking for you when you do get crippled.... And, yes, I was thinking of Chick-on when I read that news story! Be good. Stay safe.by wherever - Backpacking and Hiking Yosemite and the Sierra
It's funny what the press will focus on. So what if he ate bugs? This guy seems to have kept his head. He left his pack out of reach, so lack of food would eventually have been a problem, but saved the leg and maybe his life. Desperate times, but it could have been much worse. I do occasionally hike alone off-trail, but never without leaving a detailed route description and having someby wherever - Backpacking and Hiking Yosemite and the Sierra
Calm down. There are three types of these things. 1) Ostentatious displays. Graffiti, but of a harmless type, like chalk on the sidewalk. Knock them down, like the rangers do. 2) Markers along maintained trails, like the Four Mile Trail. Put there by small children, who think that someone might need them. Knock them down before they multiply. 3) Occasionally, to mark the route ofby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotebalzaccom Hmm. This makes that hike up Indian Canyon a little more exciting, doesn't it? ...... No, the Indian Canyon Trail is high up on the west side of the canyon, far from anything that could fall from the east side where the cable is. http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,49133by wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Thanks for the great photos. I hope to get up there soon.by wherever - Backpacking and Hiking Yosemite and the Sierra
Quoteparklover ...They are fulfilling the niche that nature gave them and are not "out to get us".... So are mosquitoes and deer ticks fulfilling the niche that nature gave them. And those two are certainly out to get me. A human's niche in life is not only to be a predator. Sometimes it is to be the prey. Last week there was a well publicized event in India where a tiger was quiteby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
QuoteKenS Lewis Evans, the proprietor of the Kings Canyon Lodge, is certain the brawny bruins would quickly run out of roots, berries and deer calves, and start searching for tasty-looking tourists. http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Could-much-feared-grizzlies-hit-the-comeback-5587350.php 1) The proponent quoted in that article is a genuine nut case. For example, he cites a statisticby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Was this a solo climber?by wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotey_p_w ...Since this is the same type of rubber that's used in climbing shoes, don't they leave marks on the rock? I seem to recall that at Arches National Park, climbers are required to use chalk that matches the color of the rock to reduce the aesthetic impact... You've got to be kidding. Your kitchen floor isn't covered with coarse, wet granite sand. Believe me, skid marks on the rockby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Much better! Thanks.by wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Short answer? These guys are crazy. Grizzlies are territorial and mean. They are incapable of not molesting people and domestic animals. Unlike black bears, who run the other way when you shout at them, they come for you instead. The real question is, whether some nuts in the government will listen to them. Maybe it's a plot by the people who want to justify always carrying theirby wherever - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion