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Getting prepped for Half Dome in 2024
Is 2024 your year to get to the top? The lottery for slots runs all March. Go to recreation.gov to enter your choice of days. Drawing is in April. Want to see what it’s like going up the cables? I … Continue reading
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Yosemite now requires permits to enter.
Here we go again….too many people!!!! Back to permits, familiar … with many during COVID. In 2023, the park went open season with all welcome to wait in long lines just to get in. Then try to find a parking … Continue reading
Yosemite’s Crowd Control
It’s called the Visitor Access Management Plan. Staff is trying to hone in on how to keep the masses from overwhemng the park. The next public participation period is now open from July 6, 2023 to September 6, 2023. To … Continue reading
Half Dome permits – a new way to get one.
Can’t get a Half Dome permit? God bless Michael Feger, a recent San Francisco State University grad. He wrote an app to wait in line for you. Yosemite permits are given out all summer via a lottery in March – … Continue reading
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Video of Avalanche in Yosemite’s Tenaya Canyon
Kudos to Jeremy Evans. On a loverly May day at the park, he had his video camera at the ready, and got this great shot of a snow avalanche rolling down from the east ridge of the Canyon. It’s not … Continue reading
Changes coming to the Mist Trail
The Yosemite Conservancy is gifting the National Park Service with $5 million for the design and planning of upgrades for Mist Trail, from the Valley to Vernal Fall and Nevada Fall. The official beginning of the trail may move from … Continue reading
Yosemite – Remember 1997?
At the very beginning of 1997, the winter weather at the park was like it was this year. Same same….Tons of snow…then the warm spring. The Merced River and other creeks got the massive flow of melting snow….it clogged the … Continue reading
Half Dome Lottery off and running
Apply in March – drawing is in April. You pick up to 6 people for 7 possible dates…they will choose. There is no reason to enter at an early date. All applications received by the end of March will be … Continue reading
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Massive Rock Fall at El Capitan
The right side of El Cap is kinda near the parking area. Credit this to Alex J. Wood who happened to be there. Also shown on FOX 26. Video at bottom of this post.. I’m not a rock climber, but … Continue reading