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To warn those that don't know, especially for the upcoming Memorial Weekend, expect to be diverted to the Badger Pass Ski parking area and perhaps up to a couple hours of wait time before they let you continue on to GP. Also expect the Bridalveil Fall parking lot to cause severe traffic backup in both directions on Hwy 41. There really needs to be a second lane on both sides to allow some bypas
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Ohnivy-Drak
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Saw the news last night and read a couple of articles on two hikers getting washed away. One is a teenaged boy. Both related to the family that founded the Merrell shoewear company. Hopefully they made it out of the water, but it would have been challenging to survive the cold temps overnight.
Came across a trip report someone posted as well, in lower water conditions. The trail looks narr
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General Discussion http://www.kcra.com/article/woman-falls-off-foresthill-bridge-while-taking-selfie/9236698
This lady lucked out and had a soft-enough of a landing, after a fall of 60 feet (not 730).
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General Discussion https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/tiogaopen.htm
The norm is mid-May. There's been less snow/storms in recent years, thus the earlier road opening dates. Wouldn't anticipate that for this year, but who knows. You should probably have some contingency plans, though.
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quotelove2kwilt
Thanks for the info. Regarding "not-Curry" - is this your way of not calling it by its new name?! I'll never stop calling it Curry Village, and that goes for all the other names that have been changed as well. :-)
Rename it Thompson Village. Though you might need to be a Bay Area sports fan to get the context.
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Backpacking and Hiking Yosemite and the Sierra What is considered the official Snow Creek fall? Would that be the section that you can see from the Mirror Lake area, at the SC/Tenaya confluence? Or is it higher up, and cautiously reachable scrambling beyond the long switchback of the SC trail?
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion QuoteMattDaddy56
I hadn't seen the article, but just returned from a hike to Clark Point that day and went down to Curry to stop at the mountain shop. Noticed a helicopter hovering over the 4 mile area for a long time and knew that something had gone bad. Love our SAR folks, but always get an eerie feeling when I see the heli get deployed.
Heli Rescue/Recovery
When I see/hear a helicopter, I
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Was just thinking about this. To think that in the last few years, it was shocking to see how low the level was. Seemed to be 80-90% empty.
What about the San Luis Reservoir along the 152? I recall the days when the water was fairly close to road level, decades ago. Now you can hike out to the middle. I read an article last summer that it was at its lowest levels in 25 years. Now it's cl
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Backpacking and Hiking Yosemite and the Sierra Let's continue the tradition, a thread every year. We're right in the middle of the window. Conditions must be a mixed bag, at best? I'd say they've likely been awful, but any official reports?
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion There are similar sections after you've reached the top of the Koip Peak Pass switchbacks, sketchy areas where you really need to watch your footing. Or down the steep gully/chute you go. Not a whole lot of margin for error when it's not icy/slippery.
Sorry to hear about the person that lost his/her life on the 4.5 miler.
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Some dam news:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/14/oroville-dam-california-officials-ignored-warnings-risk-collapse/
http://www.sciencealert.com/investigations-into-the-oroville-dam-crisis-suggest-thousands-more-could-be-at-risk-of-failure
http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/2/13/14598042/oroville-dam-flood-evacuation
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion That's decently-sized. Is that pretty normal, or can it get bigger/taller? Nice pile on Muir's Fern Ledge too. iPhoney: nice nickname. (cr)Apple does make fake phones
A hole on the actual wall/nose itself where the benchmarker used to be? Similar to the hole where the marker might have sat on Eagle Peak? Guess I'll take a look sometime. From old publications, there used to be a wooden
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Backpacking and Hiking Yosemite and the Sierra From the webcam, it doesn't seem like there's much of a snowcone. But perhaps the camera angle isn't ideal. The version I've seen wasn't tall at all, 2-3 years ago in Feb during the Horsetail window. The trail was open to the top, so I went all the way up and came back down. There wasn't much of a snowcone, barely even a mound at the base. Afterwards, poked around the El Cap nose for the ben
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Backpacking and Hiking Yosemite and the Sierra