***Huge addition to GGNRA virtually undeveloped
- SFGate:
Rich Allen rode his horse up a trail above the San Mateo County coast Wednesday and watched as a coyote trotted 100 yards away and a red-tailed hawk swirled overhead.
He was thrilled that Congress voted unanimously the day before to add nearly 5,000 acres surrounding his Moss Beach Ranch [...]
An update on Yosemite Blog:
Great News!!! Our friend Leon has been found! He hurt his ankle, lost the trail, and took a few days to recover & find his way back. His is in good condition now.
That is great news. I hoped that something like this might be the outcome and was optimistic when [...]
A note at Yosemite Blog suggests that the Park Service would like to hear from people who were in the area of Yosemite where a hiker went missing last week - even if they did not see him. Apparently it may be useful to know where he isn’t as well as where he was.
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Seen at Yosemite Blog and elsewhere:
Yosemite National Park is asking for assistance from the public in obtaining information about a missing backpacker. Leon Zheng is believed to have started a solo trip around September 2, 2005 in Yosemite National Park.
A full-scale search for Zheng was initiated on September 7, 2005, involving about 30 ground searchers, [...]
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 [...]
As you may have heard, although Tioga Pass Road is open the Park Service and concessions are being slow about opening up services. Apparently many campgrounds are still closed as are some of the other facilities. Martha Claassen went thru there earlier this week and reports:
Tuesday I drove through the park to Twin Lakes and [...]
A bit off-topic, but I love this stuff. Remembrance of Things Future: The Mystery of Time in the New York Times:
When it comes to the nature of time, physicists are pretty much at as much of a loss as the rest of us who seem hopelessly swept along in its current. The mystery of time [...]
The Yosemite National Park web site has a page showing all Tioga Road opening dates since 1980. The latest date ever was in 1998 when the road opened on July 1.
That was the year I crossed over the pass on the next weekend on my way home from the Markleeville Death Ride and saw [...]
The Park Service people are maintaining their inscrutability regarding the opening date of Tioga Road. They continue to maintain that no opening date has been set yet but that it could be late June (a foregone conclusion) or early July.
A July opening is a possibility - it has happened - but pretty darn late [...]
A fascinating look at how the Lakota Sioux used ‘winter counts’ as their calendar for generations. [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories]
If you had to chronicle your family or personal history without the benefit of a calendar, chances are that you’d link important events to each other - ‘that was the same year we bought [...]