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Living the dream’: Yosemite’s winter rangers spend months in a cramped cabin
Eric Brooks
Jan. 26, 2023
On the surface, Laura and Rob Pilewski seem like a typical married couple.
They’re avid skiers. They enjoy nature and a good meal together. They try to spend time with friends and family when schedules allow. The two, married since 1996, also appreciate time apart, because as Lau
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion The best gas station food you’ll ever have is at the Mobil in the Eastern Sierra
After 27 years, this beloved gas station in the Eastern Sierra is listed to sell for $16.5 million
Julie Brown, SFGATE
Oct. 2, 2022
The Mobil in Lee Vining opened in 1996, and nearly three decades later, it’s still a family-owned business run by Dennis Domaille and his daughter, Denise Molnar. But this summ
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion In Steve Fossett's obituary in Wikipedia, it mentions that scouting played a big part for his success later in life.
Scouting
Fossett grew up in Garden Grove, California and earned the Eagle Scout award in 1957. He credited his experience in Scouting as a foundation for much of his later success. "As a Scout, I learned how to set goals and achieve them," he once said. "Being a
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Backpacking and Hiking Yosemite and the Sierra 'Gifted' doctor and 'loving father', 32, who died after group of six hikers ran out of water and got lost in triple-digit temperatures in Arizona
• Dr. Evan Dishion, 32, died while hiking near Cave Creek, just north of Phoenix
• The hikers had run out of water and gotten lost at Spur Cross Trailhead Mountain
• All of their cell phones were dead after hiking in the heat four miles into
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General Discussion Last year, I planned on spending one night at the Mosquito Flat Backpacker Campground. When I drove up there, all of the campsites were unoccupied, but I decided not to camp there after reading an "active bear" notice that someone had left on the trailhead sign. I don't remember seeing any bear lockers at the campsites, just one at the parking lot that was some distance away. My gues
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Backpacking and Hiking Yosemite and the Sierra Bear encounters close popular camping area, rangers blame people careless with food
By Matt Markovich
Published August 18, 2022 6:38PM
NORTH BEND, Wash. - A popular campground and riverfront campsites are closed for the remainder of the summer due to aggressive bear encounters.
The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has closed the Middle Fork Campground northeast of North Bend and a stretch of di
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General Discussion National Park Booking App Leaves Users Feeling Lost in the Woods
Little availability for campsites. Confusing booking windows. Traveler and travel industry frustration is growing with Recreation.gov, the online portal to book accommodations and access on federal lands.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/29/travel/nps-recreation-gov.html
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion The Sierra Club Peaks List has peaks grouped by geographical areas: https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/sce/sierra-peaks-section/files/SPS%20list%2025th%20ed_0.pdf
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Book Review in the Atlantic, "The High Sierra: A Love Story":
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Exactly what kind of book is The High Sierra? I would call it fractally encyclopedic, borrowing from a phrase—“thinking fractally”—that Robinson uses to describe John Muir’s work in his articles and books such as My First Summer in the Sierra (1911) and The Yosemite (1912). What Robinson means is that Muir
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion The Washburn fire is mentioned in an article in The Atlantic:
Those Sequoias Didn’t Just Get Lucky
This is what preparing for wildfires looks like.
By Caroline Mimbs Nyce
JULY 14, 2022
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/07/yosemites-washburn-fire-sequoias/670520/
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion In the "Spring Summer 2022" edition of the Yosemite Conservancy Magazine:
EV Charging Stations in Yosemite
by Ryan Kelly
... Fast forward to 2015 when the first electric vehicle (EV) charging station was installed at The Ahwahnee hotel. In 2021, a grant from the California Energy Commision and a private donor allowed the park to install Level 2 EV charging stations at the Yose
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion 'Excruciating': This working-class California county has the most expensive gas in the nation
Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY
May 18, 2022·7
LEE VINING, Calif. – About five hours north of Los Angeles and five hours east of San Francisco lies California's Mono County, a picturesque region known for its towering, snow-capped mountains and close proximity to Yosemite National Park.
It's also
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion A Quiet Revolution: Southwest Cities Learn to Thrive Amid Drought
YaleEnvironment360
BY JIM ROBBINS / PHOTOGRAPHY BY TED WOOD • APRIL 26, 2022
While the public image may be that booming southwestern cities such as San Diego, Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Albuquerque are on the verge of a climate apocalypse, many experts agree that these metropolitan areas have enough of a water cushion to not on
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General Discussion A Famed Mountain Hut Falls Victim to Warming
By Katelyn Weisbrod
March 12, 2022
Heat Hurts Historic Hut
A 100-year-old cultural heritage site in Canada will be demolished later this year because it now poses a safety risk to mountaineers. The culprit? Climate change.
Abbot Pass Hut is a rustic cabin located nearly 10,000 feet above sea level on the border of Alberta and British Columbi
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General Discussion 2 national parks in Washington among U.S. search-and-rescue hot spots, analysis finds
Jan. 21, 2022 at 7:21
By Christine Clarridge
Seattle Times staff reporter
... One ranger with North Cascades National Park also cautioned that search-and-rescue statistics can be misleading.
For one thing, said North Cascades District Ranger Gabe Asarian, it’s not uncommon to get reports of missing
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General Discussion Yosemite National Park may limit visitors this summer due to major construction projects
Multiple road, trail, campground projects could cause gridlock, park officials worry.
By PAUL ROGERS | progers@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
January 20, 2022
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Is That a Burning Bush? Is This Mt. Sinai? Solstice Bolsters a Claim
By Isabel Kershner NYTimes
Dec. 31, 2021Updated 8:31 a.m. ET
On the year’s shortest day, hundreds of Israelis ventured deep into the desert to witness a strange natural phenomenon atop an ancient pilgrimage site that some argue is where God spoke to Moses.
... In 2003, a local Israeli guide and ecologist happened to be
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General Discussion Yosemite’s largest campground, Tuolumne Meadows, shutters for years-long rehabilitation work
https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/Yosemite-largest-campground-Tuolumne-Meadows-close-16626629.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion What we can learn from the death of the family hiking near Yosemite, and too many others
Ashley Harrell, SFGATE
Updated: Oct. 28, 2021 6:31 a.m.
... Although heat-related deaths can be difficult to determine conclusively and are not tracked in California, at least nine people collapsed and died while hiking in extreme temperatures in California this summer. The tally includes three people in
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion On the NPS Grand Canyon website, it doesn't mention hyperthermia, but the commonly known forms of hyperthermia -- heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
https://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/hike-smart.htm
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion This Is How You Die In Extreme Heat
Record temperatures across North America have already killed hundreds. Here's what actually happens when overheating turns fatal.
By Alexander C. Kaufman
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/heat-wave-death_n_60df24ade4b0e01b6b1dd5fd
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion You Got Lost and Had to Be Rescued. Should You Pay?
New York Times
Oct. 6, 2021
By Claire Fahy
The coronavirus pandemic sent a surge of inexperienced hikers into the wilderness. Many ran into trouble. Now states are looking to bill them for costly search and rescue operations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/us/rescue-hikers-cost.html?action=click&algo=bandit-all-surfaces_impress
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General Discussion How Crowded Are America’s National Parks? See for Yourself.
By The New York Times
July 8, 2021
Americans are flocking to national parks in record numbers, in many cases leading to long lines and overcrowded facilities. Here’s what four parks looked like over the holiday weekend.
Largely freed from domestic travel restrictions, Americans have been flocking to national parks in record num
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General Discussion National Parks Are Overcrowded and Closing Their Gates
By Allison Pohle
| Photographs by Niki Chan Wylie for The Wall Street Journal
June 13, 2021 7:00 am ET
MOAB, Utah—Southeast Utah is among the most popular tourist destinations in the U.S. with two national parks and millions of undeveloped acres.
But visitors are increasingly spending more time sitting in their cars as they wait to
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General Discussion Aleksander Doba, Who Kayaked Across the Atlantic, Dies at 74
By Alex Vadukul of the New York Times
March 11, 2021
Aleksander Doba, a Polish adventurer who kayaked alone across the Atlantic at the age of 70 while subsisting on his wife’s fortifying plum jam — after having twice paddled solo across the Atlantic when he was in his 60s — died on Feb. 22 on the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in
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General Discussion Operation Chinchilla Is a Go
Twenty-five of the endangered rodents are living on top of a multi-billion-dollar Chilean gold reserve. Miners are going to great lengths to relocate them.
The Atlantic
ED STODDARD
10/18/20
... Big mining initiatives take years to roll out, with conservation compliance an increasingly crucial part of the package. Gold Fields’ environmental permit for the Sa
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General Discussion The Age of Megafires: The World Hits a Climate Tipping Point
From Siberia to Australia to the western U.S., massive fires have consumed millions of acres this year and spawned fire-generated tornados and other phenomena rarely seen before. Scientists say the world has entered a perilous new era that will demand better ways of fighting wildfires.
BY ED STRUZIK • SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
... Light
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