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My guess would be from the Misty Trail... looking SW from the switchers N of Nevada Falls.
(between Nevada and Liberty)
The second one I would say is from the railing above Nevada Falls looking down.
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bill-e-g
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quotetanngrisnir3
How's that LX5 treating ya?
I like it. Don't love it. I'm sorta in love with the super zoom of the Z7.
So now I'm carrying two cameras around.
I'm hoping this year that they do a better job imo of showcasing the entire
park and not 99% Yosemite Valley. And for goodness sakes... don't
have one of Whitney. Geez
I forget exactly what their goal is... but I would hope a j
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion That picture was May 20th.
Here's the same spot in late April:
It's a non trivial crossing.
At this particular time I saw no one beyond Tam. Creek... and a bunch o peeps camped on the west side.
You can via Crane Flat / Tamarack CG... and avoid it... but that is one long haul...
Snow conditions vary greatly too and can play a huge part in how far you can go.
Sorry if I state t
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion No problemo.
Awesome stuff. Thanks. Next time thru Wawona Tunnel I'll take a look-see and see if worth exploring.
Here's some more from BOFR Tunnel:
We got our flashlight... and not a single mention of 'no pedestrians' (believe me... she wouldn't go in if there was):
A gate at the exit of the side tunnel (I fit thru that believe it or not) (and I did not spread it apart ... it was
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Yup. Of course I remember your photos along with your g/f's at the Renaissance exhibit.
Was surprised the wifey did too. She said "take a zoom of that... I loved the one at the
exhibit... ". Thought you might get a kick out of it.
Out of the side tunnel you can look down and see the huge rock fall that ends
Old Coulterville along with a nice view of the rock falls off of Elepha
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion No worries. I was simply trying to provide a bit more information.
Even to Ribbon Meadow is 16 miles round trip. And that is a difficult 8 in winter if you are busting your own trail.
Not to mention the crossing of Wildcat, Tamarack, and Coyote which may give some much pause.
Even in April I've seen many not get past Tamarack.
That being said... in winter... with shovel in hand... any spot
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion I guess some things are unclear.
The "other" tunnel is the tunnel near Tamarack and Cascade Creek on Big Oak Flat Road.
The "other other" tunnel is The Wawona Tunnel.
The two pictures were taken from the side tunnel on the "Big Oak Flat Tunnel".
Both pictures show The Rostrum and Bridalveil. The second is a zoom of those.
It is definitely not Pulpit Rock. Pu
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bill-e-g
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Never heard any name for it ever.
But now have the wife talked into going out the other other one too.
and a most excellent view of The Rostrum w/ Bridalveil:
For those that have been.... was able to squeeze thru the slightly spread apart gate.
(easily gone under too though)
Of course do at your own peril.
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion This thing been beat to death... just thought I'd mention:
a) Same different speed limit at S. 41 entrance. (35 on way out... 20-ish on way in)
b) It's now 40 on way out 120
Have a nice day
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion QuotemBrad
http://flic.kr/p/aEwA3h
From your flickr... there is a "share" button
from there there is
" > Grab this link"
and
" > Grab the HTML/BBCode"
select the second one.
and then select your size, etc.
if you take everything you get this:
Yosemite Dry Flower by avon park projects, on Flickr
(you can hit quote to see the actual text)
Thanks
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bill-e-g
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion We can just list all the trails sans 4 Mile and that would be your answer.
However, not sure how much snow shoeing you have done or winter
travel. It's not winter calendar-wise yet... but as soon as the next big dump
comes in that throws down 4 feet of snow... then winter has arrived...
until that melts off. Travel on snow in winter is a completely different animal
than travel in June. Th
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Found the Blister Rust Camp sign of the SW corner of Big Trees:
Also at this location also is the Boundary Marker sign #162
Failed to find the NW corner... ran out of daylight and it was raining hard by then...
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Yeah.
If you look at this set. The map at the end-ish...
https://picasaweb.google.com/yosemite.chick.on/OlmstedPt
The track on the east... that was not the way to go...
The track coming back... that is the ski trail..
Ok. It's not the ski trail before and after the cabin... (south)..
I prefer to bust own trail at times. esp. fun coming down.
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Thanks as usual.
On a related note to the thread. If you want your own copy of the 1970 USGS Valley map
linked to in the links below. That is available at the Valley Visitors Center for 12 dollars.
(picked on us this weekend) On the back it has lots of other info.
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quoteriverkat
I have read acouple of things about the snow creek trail.... and am wondering if you folks have any information on the following..
I read that later in winter there are some avalanch zones along this trail..... does any one have any references as to where they are? Does the NPS post anything on the trail, in print or on the web where I can reference avalanche information?
Wher
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion I doubt there is really many places in Yosemite where the snow shoeing would be decent.
IMO you need a good couple feet of snow to make it worth the added effort. Less than
that and it's just added weights on your feet... (i.e. just post hole thru the snow if it's that little)
Even if there is snow on the Snow Creek trail ppl will typically just walk up it w/o snowshoes.
(in the same fashi
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Picasa! Picasa!
Picasa is IMHO the best site for sharing pix. You can easily open a new gmail account
and then upload photos to picasa. If for some reason you need to be 'invited' then just
PM me w/your email adx and I'll do that. Please share pix. Too many do not imo.
I seriously get a little frustrated ... I like sharing and showing.. wish others would more.
As for what you do and
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Downloaded a zillion of them already. Thanks again. Purty much I seldom look at Topix mainly due to
after posting something over there pretty much I was told I don't do real backpacking.
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion