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QuoteUlysses61
You have photos of "massive snow falls" in the Valley during the winter of 2011-12?
Your definition of "massive" might be quite different than mine. Having grown up in Mammoth, my definition of a masive snowfall is 6-10 feet in 24 hours. The Valley floor got very, very little snow this past winter.
Sigh. So nitpick me for a few feet.
Having grown up in
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion QuoteDavidSenesac
You are going to need a lucky rabbits foot.
Yosemite Valley is at 4k while the average snow level for winter storms is about 6k though such varies greatly. Also the bottom of the valley always seems to be less cold than the same elevation in nearby forest areas probably because of latent heat in the massive granite walls. Thus even when really cold storms visit with temps
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Given the odd weather of the past season, I'm hoping there's a LOT more snow, and earlier, in Yosemite Valley this year. Winter is, after all, the best season to see the valley. Especially for photographers, being there the morning after the first snowfall gives all sorts of beautiful, contrasting shots of snow and fall foilage.
I'd love it if it were, say, the second week of November.
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quotechicagocwright
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Quotequmqats
+2 for the Whoa Nelli Delli aka Mobil gas station at Lee Vining
+1 for Alabama Hills Cafe in Lone Pine
-1 for all food in Yosemite Valley! especially the pizza at Curry
The Pizza at Curry is the best in the Valley!
I find that people who opine otherwise are frequently those who burp loudly at cocktail parties and park over white lines i
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quotequmqats
+2 for the Whoa Nelli Delli aka Mobil gas station at Lee Vining
+1 for Alabama Hills Cafe in Lone Pine
-1 for all food in Yosemite Valley! especially the pizza at Curry
The Pizza at Curry is the best in the Valley!
I find that people who opine otherwise are frequently those who burp loudly at cocktail parties and park over white lines in parking lots.
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quoteplawrence
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And coffee? I married a Starbucks worshipper, so there are, effectively, no other coffee shops in Bishop for us. Sigh.
Then here's the perfect Christmas gift for him!
I had it demoed for me at a local store and it does produce excellent coffee, espresso and lattes. The machine costs $199 and the coffee pods cost about $1 each (cheaper than what Starb
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Haven't been, but I've driven by it! No, seriously, great reviews universally, but we always seem to overlook it.
And coffee? I married a Starbucks worshipper, so there are, effectively, no other coffee shops in Bishop for us. Sigh.
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Ha! We had just the opposite experience at Las Palmas, but I understand Astorgas is the best in town. Just haven't been there yet.
Had a nice lunch at Imperial Gourmet once, but haven't been back.
For a bang-for-the-buck experience, go to the Paiute (ahem) Palace casino, sign up for free for their players club, and you get really cheap, decent meals at their restaurant. I hate it, person
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quoteplawrence
Quoteeeek
I've eaten at BBQ Bill's in Bishop once. That was one too many times.
What's your favorite restaurant in Bishop?
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It was El Loco Fijole, but it closed down and is now a BBQ joint. It was fantastic. Family owns an eatery up in Mammoth, as well.
Yamatani is OK. Surprisingly good sushi.
Whiskey Creek is uniformly good, but pricey.
Manor Market has the best beer
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Was just up there this weekend; this was taken Sunday morning. I have to say, North Lake is past prime. The cold snap from last June appears to have deadened this season's vibrancy more than just a bit.
In two weeks, Lundy and Lee Vining should be good, then.....
Yosemite Valley.
First Light On Bishop Creek, NIK by tanngrisnir3, on Flickr
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Nobody but nobody knows Oregon like Terry Richard. http://blog.oregonlive.com/terryrichard/index.html A DEEP set of short travel reports.
If you have the time and inclination, far out to the southeast lie the most amazing mountains, the Steens.
Google 'Steen Mountains' and you'll see.
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion I would have LOVED to have been a photographer with the atmospheric conditions back then.
None of the massive amounts of valley industrial/pollution haze that gets in so many shots nowadays.
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quotecalipidder
Thanks for the link, that's awesome. I've been using mapper.acme.com but this is better - the side by side topo/satellite is awesome.
I LOVES me some mapper.acme, esp. in conjuction w/Google Earth, and I like this site's side by side view, but unless I'm missing something, it doesn't have that hand crosshairs that mapper.acme has.
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Oddly enough, I just found out about this today.
http://www.sequoiahighsierracamp.com/
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General Discussion Wow! Now THAT's camp food!
Went there once as a kid, stayed at a private inholding called "Drakesbad"
The hike up Lassen itself was, IIRC, on basically a fire road.
I'd love to go again, but it's a loooong way from Hollywood.
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Coolio.
You know, I've seen it on maps countless times, usually in reports like this, and I've been close to it at Olmsted, but I've never actually seen a pic of 'Hidden Lake'.
Can you see it from the trail, or is it too, well, hidden?
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Oh, and while we're at it, has anyone ever been to a smallish lake/pond that appears to be the source of Cascade Creek?
It's at N 37.79293 W 119.68540
Pretty close to the 120 and it looks interesting.
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quotechick-on
I've mentioned this falls in the past...
http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,39010,50991#msg-50991
Have yet to visit it.
The easiest and quickest way is def. NOT El Cap Ridge. It's from Tam Flat CG.
No contest.
I had plans to go to it when did OBOFR/Horse Trail/Fireplace Bluffs... but I just
ran the tank to empty and said "not this time". In hindsight o
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quoteyosemitejim
Looks like a pretty cool double cascade on Google Earth.
Yep, that's what I thought as well.
Still, it's likely not all that big, and it's off the beaten track, so I thought it might have a name and offer some interesting photographic potential.
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion N 37.75497 W 119.69510 on either GE or Acme Mapper.
It's marked on Acme Mapper (under topo function) as just 'falls', and I've been meaning to get up to this area for some time, so this caught my interest.
It's on Cascade Creek, north of the footbridge that goes over the creek by what looks to be a few hundred meters, and it shows up on GE, clearly, as a falls.
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quoteandrys
Okay. It was my first visit to Yosemite in about 57 years, and I've been back there three times in the last half year now.
Stoneman Meadow 1/2 hr after sun rose above Half Dome
A few minutes earlier
A sepia experiment on a similar shot
I'm sort of obsessed with the place these days. I was congratulating myself on getting over Yosemite addiction (reading about it
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quoteandrys
You caught the early morning colors and mist well. I was at Stoneman Meadow Oct 30 early morning and saw similar colors and mist.
Is it considered okay to add a couple of photos?
It's most definitley OK.
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion In October, all shot w/in, oh, 10 minutes of each other, all w/in 200m of each other, under the same, otherworldly conditions.
Summer's nice, but it's just lacking something.
First Direct Sunlight, Sentinel Meadow #5 by tanngrisnir3, on Flickr
First Direct Sunlight, Sentinel Meadow #4 by tanngrisnir3, on Flickr
First Direct Sunlight, Leidig Meadow #3 by tanngrisnir3, on Flickr
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Oi.
First off, it took us an hour and a half just to get from the last hotel in El Portal (Yosemite View Lodge?) to the damned park entrance. I've never had that happen before in my life. Perhaps I've been lucky.
Then, when we finally got in.....nada. No traffic from there to the 120 turnoff whatsoever. Looked like we'd been told, as well, as far as the forecast. Variable clouds and s
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quotehs
I have been seeing the weather news for this weekend in Yosemite and it looks bad. Is it worth going to Yosemite during this weather on Friday and Saturday?
HS
It's worth it. We'll ge in Tuolumne Meadows (hoping for snow, even) friday, sat and sunday evenings.
Bad weather is actually GOOD weather.
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion One thing I've never had the chance to do yet is compare their pie to those of Rock Creek Lake Resort, which are legendary.
The only time I've stopped there to try their pie, however, it was too early (they were serving bfast, and we wanted to purchase a pie) and all I got was 'tude, and lots of it.
Never had 'tude once at TPR.
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion