Those are cool pictures! I wouldn't want to be climbing over that ice though.by Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Those were the pictures I was looking at. So that's the ice cut section. We can deal with that little bit of snow and it'll likely be gone with the warm temperatures starting now. I haven't been in this part of the park since the late 80's so I've forgotten what it is like. We want to take the upper JMT for some photos of Nevada Falls.by Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
My friend and I want to go to Nevada Falls next week using the JMT. We don't want to take the Mist Trail. This page says it is still closed in the "ice cut" area. I don't know where that is. http://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/conditions.htm#CP_JUMP_469992 Is this correct? Is it still closed? I saw the trip report about going to Liberty Cap but they took the Mist Trail and byby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Road work is never ending. I have to add 10-15 minutes to the drive time to account for it every year. Last year the section of Hwy 49 from Hwy 108 to Hwy 120 was closed in one direction and the beginning of Tioga Road had that water line installation going on. A couple of other years had repaving on 120 in the Buck Meadows area. A few year ago Priest Grade Road was closed for repaving and thereby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
The cables will be closed in 2013 for an upgrade. They're going to install a second set of cables to increase capacity, eliminate the traffic jams and dangerous passing on the outside of the cables. Two way cables should eliminate the need for the permit system in 2014.by Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
You can't just open them on the computer and cross your eyes. You need to swap the images right/left first then the cross your eyes method will work. It can take a lot of practice to free fuse the images and some people can never learn how to do it. If you haven't tried it, give it a try. It's free and works just as good as the viewer.by Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
You need a stereo viewer to view them as they are. I copied them, opened them in Photoshop, reversed the images left/right and then I can free-fuse them. That takes some practice but you get the best color. Another choice is to open them in Photoshop, copy the red channel from the left image, paste it into the red channel in the right image to create an anaglyph and view it with the red/blue glasby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
I was there at the Southside Drive location Wednesday and didn't see much. So the problem was too little water? We could see some water going over the falls and some mist but I guess there was too little water. I have no experience to judge what's a little or a lot of water in that falls.by Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
That's probably about right for Mariposa. The big rain will be focused north of Sacramento, especially in the Shasta and Oroville areas where storms 2 and 3 will hang up for awhile. Those looking for snow are going to be disappointed as the snow level is going to be high - 7000 to 8000'. Even though we are in ENSO neutral conditions, these storms are typical of El Nino years with subtropical moisby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Thanks much for the details. This will be on our to do list for next Fall.by Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
I use Photoshop CS5 to stitch the images. I use a Canon 450D and the lens for this image was the EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM at 50mm. I use an inexpensive tripod weighted with rocks and a bracket on the pan head that places the camera sensor very close to the center of rotation so that images stitch together properly.by Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
That's a 30 image panorama which makes it kind of hard to do 3D. It would make a nice 36" x 72" 300 dpi print though.by Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
I chose that spot because it was the best place to see the El Capitan reflection in the water.by Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Thanks! We didn't go far enough. I'll remember this for next year.by Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
We hiked up the there on Wednesday but were unsuccessful because we couldn't find a place to leave the trail. We spent about an hour looking along the flat part of the trail and went up about 10 switchbacks heading up to the top. We were up far enough to clear most of the trees and to look down at the cave. All we could find was thick brush or steep drop-offs. Where did we go wrong? Does anyone kby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Nine responses and no pictures?? I'll fix that. http://panoramas.aa6g.org/YosemiteValley/ValleyView.html This was taken Wednesday afternoon, probably the last clear snow-free day of the year. What is the name of this touristy location?by Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
We're going to the valley next week and it never occurred to me that this might be something to do. Is it fairly easy to get down to where the water normally is? We don't do any climbing so if you can't just walk down there from the trail we wouldn't try it. Our original plan was to go up to the Ribbon Falls amphitheater which is dry now too.by Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
I don't know exactly what forecast you were using. The gridpoint forecast covers a small square and even though you can click on any point on the map, you only get the forecast for the square. In some situations the ends of a lake can be in different squares using different elevations. Yosemite Valley is like this. You can get anything from 4000' to 8000' depending on where you click. Can you proby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
You have to watch the elevation used in the forecast. In mountainous areas the elevation can be very different from the exact point on the map you clicked on. Low temperature forecasts are likely to be more inaccurate than highs because of local temperature inversions and pooling of cold air in low spots.by Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
I like to use what the NWS used to call the Gridpoint Forecast. You can click around a map and get a 7 day forecast. It shows the elevation used for the forecast. The temperature forecast has always been fairly accurate. Here's a starting point: Cathedral Lakes Forecastby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
I'm beginning to understand how bears are being hit by cars. I had my second bear encounter while driving, this time on Tioga Road in the late afternoon on Wednesday. I was driving exactly the speed limit and a bear just ran across the road just like the first time a couple years ago. I had no problem avoiding it. A cub followed a few seconds later and I saw it appear out of the brush along sideby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Well, now I know what topic to bring up to get people to comment. I agree with the comments that there are ways for the rangers to pull over slow moving vehicles. If they did a little of that the word would get out to more slow drivers that they need to pull over and let traffic by. To me it's just common courtesy to let other drivers pass even if they are speeding. It's not my job to enforce trby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Where and when have you seen these speeding reckless drivers? My experience over the last 3 years in the park is that drivers going over the speed limit are the exception and the only two drivers I would call reckless were driving far under the speed limit spending half their time splitting the center divider. The most common driver I encounter in the park are the ones driving 10-15 mph under theby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
A sad incident for sure but it seems that this article is reinforcing the questionable meme that speeding vehicles are killing wildlife in disproportionate numbers to speed limit obeying vehicles. I've never read any study that links driving over the speed limit to increased wildlife fatalities but I'd like to read one that compares the two groups. I suspect that moving vehicles are simply incompby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
I saw the use trail on the image but having been up there on a slightly lower use trail we decided against that. We didn't like that loose scree on such a steep slope. The route we took didn't involve any of that. Also I don't know how you get to that use trail. You can also see the use trail heading straight down from the middle of the four groups of bushes. We saw that last time but refusedby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
A couple weeks ago I posted that we tried to get up to the tarn above Upper Conness Lake but took the wrong route and failed. We tried a different route last week and were successful. Here is a link to a detailed image with the route we took: http://images.aa6g.org/YosemiteForums/Route-to-ConnessTarn.jpg As long as you can get to the north side of the upper lake, I think this route is easieby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
That's what I thought too but I have another image taken about 1/2 hour earlier and the "climber" is in the exact same spot so it must be a rock. If I had only one image I would have labeled it as a climber.by Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Your 3D image in that thread has the left/right channels reversed which is why it doesn't work. Flip the glasses upside down and then it works.by Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Does the place we were at have a name? We thought about going to the next ridge east which was a little lower but a bit farther so we could see Echo Lake but we were getting a little tired and our time was running short.by Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
So that's what the pipe is for. This has been going on for at least a month and earlier than 7 am and later than 4 pm. We've been stopped there on all three trips over the last month. I actually thought it might be 24 hour-a-day work but there were no light stands. It wouldn't be so bad if they weren't stopping traffic in both directions at the same time.by Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion