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Yosemite National Park

Yosemite Roads Closed for Winter

December 3, 2009

Just an FYI for anyone who was thinking of heading up to Yosemite soon – both Glacier Point Road and Tioga Road have been closed for the winter this week, meaning you will no longer be able to enter the park from the Eastern Sierras or access the northern half of the park on Tioga [...]

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Yosemite Explorer

August 11, 2009

… so one of the other things I did after I got home from that Islip hike was to book a camp site in Yosemite in a few weeks, as part of a planned Yosemite-Bodie-Mono Lake-Devil’s Postpile-Manzanar trip. I haven’t been to Yosemite in years, and I’m really looking forward to just kicking back [...]

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Beautiful Places in HD

July 15, 2009

I don’t know how I missed this for so long – nor do I remember how I stumbled across it – but I sure am glad I finally found “Beautiful Places in HD with Tony Farley.”
The short podcast episodes are pretty self explanatory – high-definition video of some of the world’s most beautiful places, most [...]

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Curry Village Closures

November 23, 2008

As if it weren’t tough enough to snag a camping spot in Yosemite — now it’s going to get a bit more difficult.
Due to some recurring rockslides, the National Park Service has permanently closed about a third of the overnight camping spaces in popular Curry Village. The area had seen increasing slides over the [...]

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Pixel Envy

November 18, 2008

OK.
So you’ve got your bad-ass 24 megapixel DSLR and you think you’re pretty cool. The pictures you take are amazing, have incredible detail, and can be blown up to enormous sizes … but are they measured in GIGAPIXELS?
Artist Gerard Maynard spent some time in Yosemite this summer, painstakingly stitching together ultra high-res photos from [...]

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Hetch Hetchy Tussle

February 9, 2007

So there’s been a bit of a minor, text-based tussle on an environmental issue in California.
The culprit? Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. A valley just north of Yosemite – described in its prior state as being a close rival to its neighbor’s beauty – dammed by San Francisco for drinking water and hydroelectricity.
It’s not surprising [...]

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