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Well mostly in the Valley as the above was a bit up the road from the Cascade Creek bridge 7:48am Saturday April 26, 2014.
HTML coded up this one night day trip feature on my Saturday adventure in Yosemite Valley after our modest late season snow storm visited Friday and Friday night. Contains 15 each web downsized 1000 pixel dimension images. Recently bought the Sony A6000 mirrorless
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DavidSenesac
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Tossed gear into Forester this morning so will head off directly from work later this afternoon towards the Merced and be in the tripod lineup early tomorrow even though forecast has raised snow levels above the valley floor.
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DavidSenesac
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Yeah tis now dogwood time. Given the troughy flow may actually be a decent weekend for understory work if clouds linger providing diffuse conditions.
When I was in the canyon 4 weeks ago, did hike up initial part of the Hite Cove trail just to see what things looked like. Although there were good numbers of bright fresh poppies, they sort of looked similar to the noted image in my link ta
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DavidSenesac
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Well let there be snow and bury all that much too early plowing setting them back to mid May.
From Handford NWS today Wednesday,
...A RELATED CONCERN IS THAT THE COLD POOL WILL DROP SNOW LEVELS TO
AROUND 4000 FEET AT YOSEMITE VALLEY SATURDAY MORNING AND TO AROUND
4400 FEET IN THE TEHACHAPI MOUNTAINS. THIS IS THE ELEVATION OF THE
HIGHEST POINTS OF BOTH THE GRAPEVINE AND TEHACH
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DavidSenesac
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion NWS long range is saying a larger storm than the piddly one visiting tomorrow is on the weekend horizon. Rather strong multi foot snow dump storms are still possible at this time of spring. I've skied fresh powder in some of em. Given the already considerable snow free areas below about 7.5k, even a couple feet are not going to affect those areas if it does because ground temps have already
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DavidSenesac
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Any serious photographer imaging the moon ought to do their own homework. The first thing is necessary is knowing, the phase of the moon, and where it will be located in the sky at given time of day the moon is in the sky as that is changing a little each day all during the year. Just being outside somewhere will not help if the moon is hidden behind some blocking feature like a mountain.
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DavidSenesac
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion All the February storms had high snow levels with jetstream at level Pacific latitudes pushing storms due west . Lower elevations are unusually lacking in any snow. Have gone skiing twice the last few weeks and there is almost no snow below 6k even in shady areas. Caught a rumour that out beyond a week there are signs of the jet stream coming down from the north.
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DavidSenesac
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Majority of poor unskilled, unemployed Native Americans in that area living on the considerable reservation lands. Mostly good people but not surprisingly with poor also numbers without hope with drug and alcohol problems one can expect have low ethical behaviors. Numbers of their roadside businesses sell these burl pieces. Then there are numbers of long hairs in the region with their illegal
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DavidSenesac
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion A fine idea and brief notes of her biographer on the LA Times link makes that quite appropriate. Also skewers a historical record of never naming geographic features for women. Women who are my favorite beings deserve better.
David
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DavidSenesac
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quoteplawrence
Way back when online services like CompuServe, Prodigy and America Online (AOL) first appeared, I always enjoyed the discussion forums on Prodigy the most because at that time one had no other choice but to post on Prodigy's forums using their actual names. CompuServe forums were in most part civil too, but AOL forums, where anonymous "handles" were permitted were filled
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DavidSenesac
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General Discussion Actually snow on the valley floor at 4,000 feet is uncommon. And when it does snow on the valley floor it is rarely ever more than a few inches deep that quickly melts off. One of the issues is the bottom of the valley is less cold than the same elevations in the Sierra elsewhere because there is considerable radiation off the immense granite canyon walls that act as a reservoir of stored heat.
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DavidSenesac
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Agriculture at one time took up 80% but today is considerably less. Many farmers do irrigate more efficiently today because they had to invest in more efficient systems because their allocations were reduced. Still there are many that do not and overall more could be saved just like with urban users. This link has some charts and graphs:
http://californiawaterblog.com/2011/05/05/water%e2%
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DavidSenesac
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion also sex offender idiots with fires
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Accused-arsonist-is-sex-offender-known-firebug-5149332.php
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DavidSenesac
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General Discussion also sex offender idiots with campfires
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Accused-arsonist-is-sex-offender-known-firebug-5149332.php
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DavidSenesac
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General Discussion True they need to conserve the water they already have but even if that is done their thirst is much greater than that will add up to.
Murray >>>"So how can we wean ourselves on distant water? Desalination gets attention, but the energy costs are prohibitive."
Costs are only prohibitive to growth and development industries in Southern California, especially real estate
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DavidSenesac
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General Discussion Quoteplawrence
...Nice photos. In regards to backpacking, are there water sources readily available near where one could setup camp, or does one have to pack-in their water like many of the Southwest's desert parks?
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Well if one visits during the dry hot summer vacation mindset most Americans tend to, yep one is likely to end up carrying water. And that is no fun unless the destinationis sho
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DavidSenesac
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General Discussion Given the drought here in California, made the long drive down to Arizona last spring with the park my main objective. Although my first visit, I've wanted to visit for decades but tis a long ways with many other fascinating places especially in Utah. As someone that has seen a good part of our Southwest Colorado Plateau country, the colorful geology of Petrified Forest National Park is now o
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DavidSenesac
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General Discussion Reno NWS technical discussion today:
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LONG TERM PRECIPITATION OUTLOOK CONTINUES TO BE BLEAK. ENSEMBLE
FORECASTS AND ANALOGS CONTINUE TO SHOW NO SIGNS OF DISLODGING THE
TENACIOUS HIGH PRESSURE ANOMALY FROM THE WEST COAST FOR AT LEAST
ANOTHER 2 WEEKS. WITH MOST OF JANUARY LIKELY TO STAY DRY THE 2014
WATER YEAR MAY GO DOWN AS THE DRIEST 4 MONTH START TO A WATER YEAR
IN
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DavidSenesac
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Most of we Yosemite fans live in the land of jobs aka the SF Bay Area. To get there most drive state route 120 across the valley going through Manteca, Escalon, and Oakdale, on the way. Between Manteca and Oakdale are miles of nut tree orchards with almond groves dominating. Well for years I've noticed this enormous pile of almonds along the road at one of the almond processing facilities n
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DavidSenesac
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General Discussion Hmmm? Read the Inyo article on protests. Complaining about how it will detract from Manzanar views is hardly credible since it is not someplace along the Eastern Sierra people visit for scenery. Considerable historic value yes. But if I was a local landowner maybe interested in how that industrial facility might affect my land values due to views, yeah I can understand that angle. Since
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DavidSenesac
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion No trouble at the moment. Thanks to the way the Internet has made available a vast array of world products at the touch of a keyboard. But the last few years have seen local sources dry up and the range of film types and formats shrink.
B&H continues to be a solid mail order source for large format color sheet film and there are some others. In any case the increasing dominance of dig
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DavidSenesac
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Worked fall leaves in the Eastern Sierra during and after the considerable October 9 snowstorm in the Sierra. Added the below feature story to my website. Given DSLR popularity, not many of us still lugging about view cameras in those areas though results can still be worth it. Includes eight 4x5 images plus 11 Canon G10 supporting pics. Text provides some insight into my photography strateg
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DavidSenesac
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Nicely colorful metamorphic geology in that area. With the jetstream moving further south, one often has nice clouds at this time of year versus the less interesting Sierra fair weather sunny blue skies. Up there by Edna, just rock, ain't much soil. So no worms, you musta been hungry.
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DavidSenesac
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mtr/forecast.php
Read the AFD (area forecast discussions) for Hanford, Sacramento, Reno. Then under each look at the Zone forecasts for specific Sierra regions.
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DavidSenesac
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion This board is in the annual sleepy period for many of we mountain enthusiasts that are between summer backpacking, hiking, and or climbing and fall leaf change road trips. So for amusement here's a backpacking trip feature with numbers of High Sierra images for a recent late August solo trip I made into the John Muir Wilderness.
http://www.davidsenesac.com/_a-z_evad/Backpacking/PioneerB/pio
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DavidSenesac
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quoteplawrence
QuoteDavidSenesac
Got my attention. Thanks guys.
Always the big toe area ends up with a hole then on some models the heel area gets thin.
Do you keep you big toes' nails short, smooth and trimmed? Also smooth out any rough edges of hard skin around your big toes? That'll go a long way in preventing holes in one's socks around the big toe.
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Nope. But almost always tr
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DavidSenesac
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Got my attention. Thanks guys.
Every backpacking sock I've ever used over the last 4 decades eventually has worn out. Some definitely last a lot longer. Always the big toe area ends up with a hole then on some models the heel area gets thin. Sometimes will sew up the hole but the result is often less than pleasant. Usually buy moderately high end medium to heavy wool blend socks. Cur
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DavidSenesac
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Just looked at the inciWeb fire perimeter page. Sickening that it has climbed up to the 6000 foot elevations in the Laural Lake and Beehive Meadow areas. Quite magnificent tall old growth red fir and douglas fir forests there.
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DavidSenesac
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Foolish to be on routes like that without a topographic map or being able to use it. Surprising numbers of climbers still think they can navigate by sight alone much like people did a century ago. Well much of the time one can. But its like throwing dice not expecting snake-eyes to ever come up. And especially foolish in Sierra granite canyons where glacier carved cliffs may have formed in all
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DavidSenesac
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion