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Well captured, Steve!! Thanks for sharing! Looks like a great trip and probably the timing was perfect. Where all did you guys catch the fish? There were some people fishing around California falls.
I was at GA and WW last weekend and mosquitos were, surprisingly, not bad.
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Backpacking and Hiking Yosemite and the Sierra Mosquitos at Glen Aulin last weekend weren't too bad, maybe because I was expecting it to be worse. The only time we felt their presence was around dusk, just before and after the sunset.
Didn't see any at the tenaya lake either though it was a different story at Tenaya on June 19th. Have fun!
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Backpacking and Hiking Yosemite and the Sierra Technically if one is within 1 mile of HSC, one is supposed to camp in the backpackers camp at the HSCs. My guess is that this is to minimise the impact since these areas are heavily trafficked and heavily used. The camping area around Glen Aulin is well marked and around Sunrise lakes, it's easy to spot previous used/impacted spots.
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Backpacking and Hiking Yosemite and the Sierra Thanks for the thorough overview.
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They have blocked off the road into the campground
This is especially helpful as I will be there next weekend for a day at the TM backpackers cg. Didn't realize that there won't be an option to offload next to the cg.
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Yup, I saw people being turned back at Big Oak Flat entrance station on Friday 6/19 morning.
In addition to what basilbop mentioned, 20% of day use permits are available 2 days before at 7am and the rest are already on sale. Looks like there are spots available for some days in June and July. August hasn't been released yet
https://www.recreation.gov/ticket/facility/300015?q=Yosemite%20Natio
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Nice, congrats! I had no luck from 7 - 8am. They definitely released some additional sites later....maybe similar to how Upper Pines sites were released earlier this week in a rolling/staggered manner.
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion QuoteNot quite The Geezer, but getting there
Was your email from recreation.gov? I still haven't received a notice about cancellation of a TM campground reservation for August...but that wasn't a group camp.
Just checked and this came from Recreation.gov, so yours might be still good.
We're sending you this message because of your Recreation.gov reservation, 023______1, at TUOLUMNE MEADOWS
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Thanks guys! Appreciate the support.
I feel for the park people and yosemite conservancy though. People are going on an overdrive with desperation and NPS will have its hands full. On the yosemite FB page, there are over 5k comments/questions about the park opening (that was announced just 30 hours back) and people have all their family members trying to book the day use permits, bringing the
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion I got an email about cancelling my group site reservation for September. My initial thought was that only the group sites will be closed, until I saw that statement.
Backcountry access from TM is allowed as I have the permits for the weekend of 6/19
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion QuoteFatFlatlander
And as a bonus, I now know how large a kite I can legally fly in Yosemite! : )
Nice! Didn't know that they are so specific about it.
Btw got the confirmation email that TM campground will be closed for the season. Had a group site there for September and I can live without it. As you said, it's good to get some clarity
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Most important update - Tioga Pass Road will open on Monday, June 15
Yosemite on Thursday, June 11
Day permits go on sale from Tuesday, June 9. 7am PT at Recreation.gov
https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/covid19.htm?fbclid=IwAR17YZBCmZ8Qco5P9preHflHygrAVYC5jbfKoOz_lg7oaa1Bi7U64V8hw30
Any guesses on TM campground opening date?
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quotechick-on
Here's a little better shot of the gully:
Great clicks!! and sorry about the camera. Is this gully from the west side or the SW side?
Hoping to check out BD later in June and wondering whether to traverse the SW side from ND or go straight West to East from the trail and shoot for the notch or base of the gully. Totally understand if you are not divulging the details here any
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion My guess is that the gates will function as usual. They might have monitoring by camera at night, if they don't have it already, and just mandate that people coming in after the kiosk is closed need to get the day pass next day from a booth outside the visitor center. Something similar to what's done for the campgrounds.
Agree about $2, it's a decent workaround and a nominal fee to make people
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quoteabetterpitchfork
Not sure if anyone beyond Corntortilla cares, but since I posted the first message here, I may as well post the update:
Thanks for sharing, this is awesome update!!
Missed out on the updates within the first post, so thanks for circling back. I don't go to Reddit that much and I bet a lot of folks on this forum are interested in this info. I didn't realize initially t
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quotehikerchick395
We did have fire weather and a property fire in the neighborhood. Had an immediate evacuation order. Luckily the fire was put under control soon after.
Ohh wow! Evacuation sounds rough. Glad to know that things are in control
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quotemtn man
The hold on new reservations from May 24 to Sept. 30 was announced on 4/27. (Poorly written as it's not clear whether you can't make reservations ON those dates, or whether you can't make reservations FOR those dates) It appears they meant to say you can't make reservations FOR those dates. Camping limit after 9/15 is 30 days. So it appears on 5/15 you could try for early Oct.
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion This is sad. I wish there was an option to at least maintain their housing and probably furlough was considered by Aramark.
Was reading about this earlier and it also mentions that DNC at SeKi shuttered down in March.
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Very sorry to hear that and hope you are feeling much better. Not sure if it's vertigo that onsets with age and one can recover from that with some adjustments.
That's what happened to my dad a couple of years back but was not diagnosed initially. I received frantic voicemails from my mom and sis on my way back from a backpacking trip in yosemite. By the time I called back, he was out of the
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