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I use Salomon GTX of some sort. Pretty much goretex year round... for either dirt into shoes... or water into shoes.
yeah they don't last forever, etc. etc. but …
I guess I'd go with a porous shoe if had to get wet a lot so can dry out …
but anywho…
I guess I should link to this for that guy going up Snow Creek on the 4th...
https://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,39233,39233#m
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chick-on
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Backpacking and Hiking Yosemite and the Sierra Dunno. I'll stick with Smith and Conness (w/o question it's Conness)
Here's Conness from Smith:
You can see Smith from The 120 after Groveland... I'll try to stop and take a picture next time.
(maybe next week... maybe week after... )
Tanks for sharon
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chick-on
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Neat.
Without question it's Mt. Conness.
I think the one on the left.. is Smith Peak. I'd have to look at some pix to see if so.
The one question I have is... below the Plateau to the right of Conness… it almost looks like a dome.
I don't know about that. Something interesting … I'll find a pix...
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chick-on
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quoteeeek
Quotechick-onThank You
I take it you haven't been on the east lately.
Correct
But don't feel sorry for me...
Been going every weekend over on da West side...
With the amount of snow might be awhile...
OR...
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chick-on
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Not sure what Clark Basin is. You want to go to Obelisk?
Anywho. Things looked like this last weekend:
There's gonna be a whole lotta snow up high well into July.
Probably more than in 2010, 2011, and 2017.
The ranger was talking Ill basin. It clears out much earlier. But... I would hope would have
mentioned the small creeks you have to cross … may be death defying this ye
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chick-on
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Backpacking and Hiking Yosemite and the Sierra Valley was super pleasant over the weekend. Let everyone have the firefall… lots of great …
NPS did a GREAT JOB imo… with the firefall this year. They should do it like this every year.
Using one side of the road to park last year was prone to people walking IN the road.
Now they had a full lane.
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chick-on
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Really sad and unfortunate.
Just a crazy amount of snow on a lot of the trails.
Mist Trail just crazy. JMT wow. Yose Falls … yowza.
Mist Trail :
JMT :
From last weekend.
And from prior... Yosemite Falls from afar:
Be safe
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chick-on
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion There was a log on a rock before Pohono Bridge … we kept watching it....
And it was gone after the big flood last year...
We were bummed we got kicked out of the valley. Of course we don't want any property or lives lost.
.. but it is amazing to see … (the water... not the lost stuff)
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chick-on
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion It doesn't stay flocked long...
Gonna watch the webcams today... and tomorrow... might get ugly there with the rain
Dewey
Crocker
Stanford
Taft
Taft from Jan 20...
Not nearly enough time to do everything wanted to do.
Be safe. It's crazy how much snow is falling higher too
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chick-on
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion We go almost every weekend or more...
Most of the time... even that is not enough...
It was special in the valley so tried to enjoy as much as possible.
Could have used more days with conditions like this. It's always fleeting...
It might be gone tomorrow (with rain coming)
It was special.
Be careful. Conditions are not easy. LOTS of trees block the way. and LOTS of snow
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chick-on
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion hi Daniel
We were in the park last thur-sun
It was pretty amazing. But Yosemite always is.
The sheer amount of snow dropping on the trees in the valley caused them to fail.
Huge number of trees fell.
Unfortunately on some structures and cabins.
No lives were lost.
Tree fell on the Wilderness Center too.
You should look at YNP on facebook.
Here's one we took of Curry:
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chick-on
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion If you've been around this forum a long time... you may recall I dooz an overlay of Greene's base map...
It actually has the locations of the ford and the first camp. It effectively says Roosevelt and the first battalion
camped at the same location.
Here is the map for the valley overlayed:
and here I cropped and made 34 and 58 show up …
34 = ford
58 = first camp spot
I'll
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chick-on
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion QuotePohono
chick-on---So it appears from the valley map that the first camp was on the west side of the moraine near the present Bunnell marker. And the Lower Iron Bridge became the Pohono Bridge. But I'm still puzzled about the rail fence. I will definitely hunt down the Linda Greene book. Thanks
I replied more. Have fun!
I woke up last night longing for the mountains.
Sigh
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chick-on
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Ok. I get what you're asking now about Lower Iron Bridge...
from Greene:
By 1894 the Lower Iron Bridge across the Merced River
near where the Big Oak Flat Road entered the valley still had not been
rebuilt after collapsing from snow loads years before. That situation
forced travelers to follow along the north side of the valley to the Upper
Iron Bridge spanning the river almost directly
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chick-on
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Searching it finds the answer to your first question:
Access to the valley was one of the main problems addressed
after establishment of the grant. From the north, travelers on horseback
usually took the seventeen-mile wagon road from Coulterville to Black's
Hotel at Bull Creek, where they stayed overnight, covering the
thirty-two miles into Yosemite Valley the next day. These travelers ha
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chick-on
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion You "need" to read:
historic Resource Study
YOSEMITE: THE PARK AND ITS RESOURCES
A History of the Discovery, Management, and Physical Development of Yosemite National Park, California
Volume 1 of 3 Historical Narrative
by Linda Wedel Greene
This 3 set will keep you busy for a VERY long time.
The first map came from there it looks like. There are so many references in there..
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chick-on
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion From:
"Early Years In Yosemite" (1926 by Carl P. Russell)
On March 25, 1851, the party went into camp near Bridal Veil Fall. That night around the camp fire a suitable name for the remarkable valley was discussed. Lafayette H. Bunnell, a young man upon whom the surroundings and events had made a deeper impression than
upon any of the others, urged that it be named Yosemite, after t
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chick-on
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion I'd say I'm on exurt on trails n such... but not so much on the history.
Yosemite has a LOT of history and a lot of it is hard to discern.
I'll try though since I'm not in my beloved now or heading there until next week.
1. Too much foot traffic eroding the banks.... ? Probably not much of a story.
2. Never heard of... you've peaked my interest... I'll look into...
3. The Discory of The
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chick-on
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion