Tioga Road Opens Friday - It’s Official
According to the Yosemite National Park web site Tioga Pass road will open at noon on Friday. As in tomorrow. :-)
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May 2007
Tioga Pass Opens Friday?
&Yosemite Blog:
Tioga Set to Open Friday.
Sources are saying Tioga is ready to open this Friday (May 11) at noon, weather permitting.
No services or campgrounds will be available for a while yet.;/p>
Hikers and back country users take note: most of the trails are still covered with snow and streams are high with runoff. Over the last [...]
Where did the Dweebs go?
I’ve been a follower of the Mammoth Dweeb Report web site for its up-to-date and sometimes eclectic weather and climate reporting. However, the site seems to have gone AWOL and I only get an error message.
Does anyone know what happened?
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A Couple Tom Stienstra Articles
A couple of Sierra Nevada stories in SFGate:
NOTEBOOK / The mountain highways are opening up all over Northern California. Highway 108 at Sonora Pass became the first trans-Sierra highway to open this year, when it was cleared last weekend for the opening of trout season. The highway was closed this past week for maintenance but [...]
Hikes: Sunol Regional Wilderness
Tom Mangan (of Two-Heel Drive) has another trail article in the Murky News this week. (And do you have to be named Tom to have an outdoor column in a Bay Area paper? :-)
Hikes: Sunol Regional Wilderness - It has hiking. It has camping. It has cows. Sunol Regional Wilderness even has a stony canyon [...]
More Right Than I Thought?
During the past week or so I have posted a few times about the prospective opening of Tioga Pass Road through Tuolumne Meadows between the Central Valley and Owens Valley. First I predicted that the road might open this past Thursday - based on historic opening dates and information could read about current road-clearing progress. [...]
First Light, Valley Grove
Yosemite Valley Grove at First Light. Yosemite National Park, California. April 21, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell. (Sales)
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Tioga Pass Opening - Mea Culpa
&uotLast week I went out on the proverbial limb and
Evening Rain, Yosemite Valley
Evening Rain, Yosemite Valley II. Yosemite National Park, California. April 21, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell. (Sales)
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A Lesson on How to Read Testimonials
A recent incident where a man enrolled in a survival school program died of dehydration while the guides didn’t offer him water causes me to read the school’s testimonials in a whole new light. From their web site:
…the place to go to gain primitive survival skills.” - The Ultimate Adventure Sourcebook
“…the BOSS program is [...]