Loyd at Yosemite Blog has been pointing to a number of articles on the subject of draining and restoring Hetch Hetchy Valley - the “other Yosemite” that was dammed (or damned?) by San Francisco early in the 1900s.
Today he points to two articles. A Time article points out that several hundred dams (though none this [...]
Flowers and Meadow. Yosemite National Park. July 8, 2005. © Copyright Dan Mitchell.
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I wanted to do some photography and to see the Tuolumne area before all of the snow melts, so yesterday I drove to the Tuolumne Meadows/Tioga Pass area and back. Yes, a long day of about 21 hours on the road and the trail.
I left around 4:30 a.m. and got to Yosemite fairly early. After [...]
Saratoga, California, that is. And, yes. Perhaps 10 minutes drive up the road from Saratoga espresso shops and restaurants is Sanborn County Park. A couple miles uphill from the parking lot is the Todd Creek Grove.
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Storm. Death Valley National Park. March 28, 2005. © Photo copyright Dan Mitchell.
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On this morning’s quick Almaden Quicksilver hike up and down the Deep Gulch Trail (training for summer pack trips) I ran into a group from the New Almaden Quicksilver County Park Association. They were comparing old photographs of the English Camp area with the current landscape.
The old pictures were fascinating. Not only did they show [...]
March of the Penguins: “Life in Antarctica can get pretty grim. But don’t tell that to these driven birds.” SFGate:
Director Luc Jacquet and his team have done an incredible job gaining the trust of these penguins and recording their tortuous migration. Some of the shots — such as a mother tenderly passing her unhatched [...]
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