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Yosemite National Park

Yosemite Nature Notes Explains the Snow Line

March 5, 2010

We’re due for another minor weekend storm, which means depending on your elevation, you might be near the snow line over the next few days.
In case you were wondering what the snow line actually is, Steve Bumgardner from Yosemite Nature Notes does an excellent job of explaining the weather phenomenon’s importance to the ecosystem of [...]

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New Half Dome Permit System for 2010

January 29, 2010

In 2010 and 2011, if you want to hike up Half Dome on a weekend or holiday when the cables are up, you’re going to need to do some serious planning-ahead, because now you need a permit to do so.
According to the Yosemite National Park web site:
Beginning in 2010, all people using the Half Dome [...]

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Stay in Yosemite for Cheap!

January 20, 2010

If you’ve wanted to view Yosemite National Park in all its wintry splendor, but aren’t quite ready to snowcamp yet, the park is offering reduced rates at its Valley lodgings right now on selected dates through the end of March.
The Ahwahnee Lodge rates are as low as $199 a night, while the Yosemite Lodge at [...]

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People in Yosemite

December 16, 2009

Steven Bumgardner – a.k.a. YosemiteSteve – is the producer for Yosemite National Park’s Yosemite Nature Notes – a wonderful video podcast highlighting the human and natural history of one of the most beautiful places on the planet.
In his most recent video upload, Steve focuses on the human footprint, showing some great HD timelapses of [...]

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Coming Home to Fires

August 31, 2009

I’m back from my workweek-long hiking / camping / photographing trip, and it was an overall very awesome experience. Over the next few days, I’ll hopefully find some time to upload all my photos and write up all the hikes I did … but the one word that hung over the entire trip was [...]

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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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John Muir Trail HD Video

February 3, 2009

Last Summer, Pete Bell took a group of high school students from Chapel Hill, NC backpacking 220 miles on the John Muir Trail, and had the good sense to bring along an HD video camera to make a mini-documentary.
The 6 minute piece is a nice look into “shock-introducing” kids to hiking, as well as a [...]

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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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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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