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From a narrow trail held together by rusty nails, to a walk up an active volcano, these are the most deadly hikes in the world.
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Regardless of how you feel about the creation of Hetch Hetchy, it is hard to debate how beautiful it is currently with the reservoir and how even more beautiful I am sure it would be in its true state without the water. I got a chance to spend some time hiking there after the last …
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Now that the rains are filling the falls here again, and Hetch Hetchy Valley's temperatures are warmer on a sunny winter afternoon than Yosemite Valley, I absolutely recommend this walk! Do it as a full day out or stop leaving Yosemite for a Half Day adventure, you will love this place.
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Drug cartels on federal land pose enormous environmental and financial costs.
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AZ Big Media Top reasons to visit U.S. national parks during the winter holidays | AZ Big Media
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We make a special Thanksgiving and Christmas menu every year just see our NEWs blog at Yosemitebug.com
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Yosemite National Park Expands the Park’s Museum Web Catalog Over 2,000 objects now digitally available on the Yosemite Museum’s Web Catalog
Yosemite National Park has expanded and improved the Yosemite Museum’s Web Catalog to enhance the public’s ability to experience a wide variety of historically significant items. Visitors are invited to explore more than 2,000 catalog records for objects and images from the Yosemite Museum collection. These records include American Indian basketry, historic objects related to John Muir, and photographs taken by Carleton Watkins and George Fiske.
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ElCap Report 10/26 to 31/2017 By Tom Evans Yo… The great fall weather held up to the end of the season.
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When he set a new record up Wyoming’s Devils Tower last month, Robert Kelman confirmed what experts say about aging and athletics: Use it or lose it.
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A study of fruit bats suggests that pups learn the “dialects” of the bats that surround them, even if they differ from those of their mothers.
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The eruption that caused California’s Long Valley Caldera to form likely started with magma that was chilled to a solid.
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This wonder is 20 miles away east as the 'raven' flies from the Bug.
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It seems that the more our sport progresses, the younger our prodigies get. 10 year olds are climbing v13 and redpointing 5.14a while 1
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Yosemite National Park couldn’t fill 10 percent of its maintenance workforce over the summer due to a severe lack of long-term housing options.
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We know this from both sides of the coin. We put up employees for the season, but also rent out some vacation rentals. We do, however, also focus running a full service mountain lodge rather than one or two vacation rentals. This will need solved at multi-institutional and multilayered approach, the marketplace may not self-correct. |
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Like a pack of troublemaking teenagers showing up to a party uninvited, about 20 wild turkeys swing by the home of Anthony and Holly Blackburn in Martinez on a daily basis.
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We love our turkeys here, they are a bit smarter than deer when in traffic. But I can only think of what a great slow braised wild turkey would be like!
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Many mornings this summer, Robin Whiteplume stepped out of the front door of his Lander home and smelled smoke.
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ot at Yosemite but worth a read
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This spring Stept Studios had the privilege of joining Stacy Bare, Robin Brown, and Matthew Griffin, three U.S. Army Captains on a heartfelt journey back to where…
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Rodents tried to eat my engine while camping—learn from his $4,500 misfortune.
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Old Big Oak Flat road used to be the access road to the valley until it was deemed to be too unsafe and eventually destroyed by rockfall. Today it...
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If you like old undiscovered roads this is one of them. The old road from Sonora and SF ultimately, I like this trail simply because no one is on it. Just go as far as you want. You can also access it from Tamarack Flat up top ( the mountain biker in me would love that). Another great section of the Big Oak Flat Road is the Trail to Tuolumne Sequoia Grove. Just image old coaches and Model T's making their slow way to Yosemite Valley in another era.
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An alarming 76 percent of insects disappeared between 1989 and 2016, raising red flags that biodiversity is dropping and future ecosystems could be threatened.
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Bernie Krause has made it his life’s work to record the planet’s vanishing soundscapes. Here’s why we need to tune into the environment.
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See the thrilling ways these overachieving sleepers take a break from their adventures.
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I don't know how it happened, but somehow 12 years slipped by since I last made the hike out to Taft Point above the floor of Yosemit
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The Glacier Point Road is still closed and may re-open. You can still use Four Mile trail from the Valley and bag a deserted Glacier Point, Sentinel Dome and Taft Point for a long day hike!
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Our best recommendations for exploring San Francisco like a local.
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People are always asking me, a long time San Franciscan who moved to Yosemite, what to do there. I would have recommended half of these! SF is a world gateway city for Yosemite visitors so here's some for your trip.
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ElCap Report 10/19 to 10/25/2017 By Tom Evans Yo…Unprecedented solid weather seems to be the trademark of this Falls climbing season. It is too warm for some of the free climbing on ElCap, yet several teams are forging ahead. Most popular is, of course, Freerider which has been plagued by drop-ins, bailers and fixed-line jumpers. |
This time of year the old Inspiration Point has fantastic sunset views. In an old parking lot and viewpoint from the old stagecoach road you can also take the old road down to Bridalveil Falls and be quite alone.
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Old Inspiration Point is more remote and is located on the valley rim above the parking lot (accessible from Glacier Point road or continuing up from Inspiration Point).Tunnel view is a very nice lookout with amazing views of the park. It is often crowded but is worth it. There are a few hikes that branch off from the parking lot at tunnel view. I went to Inspiration Point. It is a short hike but very steep (2.6 miles round trip). My piece of advice is that you stop at New Inspiration Point rather than Old Inspiration Point. To find New Inspiration Point, you follow the path to the left when there is a slight fork in the pathway. You can see Half Dome and Yosemite Falls and the valley from the new point. You see the exact same view as you do from the parking lot, but the trail is hardly ventured, so you will be alone and able to get some good pictures. For Old Inspiration Point, you continue to the right when the path forks. This is not worth it because trees completely block any views of the valley.