Category: Yosemite Valley

Commentary: Interesting Times in Yosemite Valley: While Famous Waterfalls Gush, Construction Booms

June 19, 2023
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Marek Warszawski The Sacramento Bee Sacramento—It’s easy to become blasé about Yosemite Valley. Even a touch jaded. Especially when you live within easy driving distance and have visited countless times and in all seasons. Factor in the crowds and the hoops one must be willing to jump through in order to spend the day marveling…

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Campgrounds at Yosemite National Park to Close Over Flood Threat as Snowpack Melts

May 14, 2023
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YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif.—Three popular campgrounds at California’s Yosemite National Park will be temporarily closed starting May 15 because of a forecast of flooding as warming temperatures melt the Sierra Nevada’s massive snowpack. Park officials said Sunday that the Lower and North Pines Campgrounds and the Housekeeping Camp will be shut over fears that waterways…

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Reflections from a Night on a Cliffside

December 10, 2021
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Last year, my son Kyle and I were invited to join a climbing expedition with my good friend and client, Joe, and his son, Sam. Joe has been training Sam in hopes that he’ll become the youngest person to ever climb the famed El Capitan, a 3,000-foot vertical wall in Yosemite Valley that most consider…

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