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{ Monthly Archives } September 2005

Parker Pass Sky

Parker Pass Sky. Yosemite National Park. September 18, 2005. © Copyright Dan Mitchell.
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2005 09 30 Dan Mitchell Yosemite Comments Off

Spillway Lake and Kuna Crest

Spillway Lake and Kuna Crest. Yosemite National Park. September 18, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
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2005 09 30 Dan Mitchell Yosemite Comments Off

Grass and Rock Near Budd Creek

Grass and Rock. Yosemite National Park. September 17, 2005. © Copyright Dan Mitchell.
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2005 09 29 Dan Mitchell Green World Comments Off

Fall Color Near Parker Pass

Fall Color Near Parker Pass. Yosemite National Park. September 18, 2005. © Copyright Dan Mitchell.
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2005 09 29 Dan Mitchell Yosemite Comments Off

Kuna Crest

Kuna Crest near Spillway Lake. Yosemite National Park. September 18, 2005. © Copyright Dan Mitchell.
I’m afraid I don’t know the names of the peaks in this photo. I do know that this is Kuna Crest, a long and high ridge running between the Lyell fork of the Tuolumne River (Lyell Canyon) and the Parker Pass [...]

2005 09 29 Dan Mitchell Yosemite Comments Off

Fiesta Lake (September 2005)

Fiesta Lake. Yosemite National Park. September 16, 2005. © Copyright Dan Mitchell.”
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2005 09 28 Dan Mitchell Sierra Nevada Comments Off

Two From the Daily Scoop

Sierra Club Daily Scoop:
The New York Times reports that the Arctic ice cap… The New York Times reports that the Arctic ice cap shrank sharply this year, reaching a size “20 percent below the average minimum ice extent measured from 2000 back to 1978, when precise satellite mapping of the ice began.” The difference translates [...]

2005 09 28 Dan Mitchell Environment Comments Off

Just When You Think They Might Be Starting To Get It…

Two stories about the Administration and its bizarre and short-sighted policies on energy and the environment:
White House Offers Advice on Saving Gasoline. President Bush on Tuesday came up with some specific advice for his White House staff: take the bus. And that was just the beginning. By ELISABETH BUMILLER. [NYT > Science]
and…
Interior Secretary Says U.S. [...]

2005 09 28 Dan Mitchell Environment Comments (2)

Ellery Lake (September 2005)

Ellery Lake. Tioga Pass. September 16, 2005. © Copyright Dan Mitchell.
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2005 09 27 Dan Mitchell Sierra Nevada Comments Off

A Bit More About My Tuolumne Weekend

I mentioned earlier that I was in Tuolumne Meadows last Friday through Sunday. September weather in Tuolumne (and the rest of the Sierra) can go just about any direction you can imagine. I’ve seen it snow and I’ve seen it warm and sunny.
This weekend was mostly sunny - with the addition of a few photogenic [...]

2005 09 20 Dan Mitchell Trips Comments Off