Yosemite Explorer posts a story supporting my hope that Tioga Pass Road will open very soon:
Tioga Pass and Glacier Point Roads Opening Soon (May 4?); Sonora Pass Opens (27 April 2007).
Tioga Pass Road has opened to administrative traffic as of a couple of days ago (Friday, April 27, 2007). That basically means that they [...]
I just found a neat little video about the work of the road crew as they plow across the Olmsted Point area above Tenaya Lake: http://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/upload/olmstedplowing.mov
(Meanwhile, my thoughts are turning towards Death Valley… :-)
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Spring begins and many of us start to speculate on this years opening date for Tioga Pass Road. The Park Services maintains a web page (Tioga Road Opening and Closing Dates) that offers some guidance, but in the end it depends on a bunch of variables.
According to this record, the earliest date has been April [...]
Another beautiful almost-live image from the Tioga Pass webcam.
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From a Sierra Nevada weather update I received today…
SNOW LEVELS ARE EXPECTED TO DROP TO AROUND 6500 FEET NORTH OF
HIGHWAY 50 AND DOWN TO 7000 FEET IN MONO COUNTY BY EARLY WEDNESDAY
MORNING. ABOVE 7000 FEET FROM THE LAKE TAHOE AREA SOUTHWARD TO
MONO COUNTY UP TO 6 INCHES OF SNOW IS POSSIBLE BETWEEN WEDNESDAY
NIGHT AND THURSDAY [...]
Tom Stienstra of SFGate says this is a Sierra Nevada map worth owning - http://imusgeographics.com/sierra.htm
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Seen on the Calphoto email list:
Just got back from a trip up to Lee Vining and then Rock Creek Lake.
As I mentioned before, fall is beginning in the mountains. The signs
are everywhere up there. Brown meadows, willows changing even more
than last week, and then as we get to Rock Creek Lake, there before
our eyes, the [...]
Smoke from late-season managed fire in Yosemite National Park. Date unknown. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
Yesterday’s story in SFGate (All 4 trails to top of El Capitan blocked as over 400 acres burn) and the very dry conditions I noticed on yesterday’s short Bay Area hike remind me that fire is a natural part of [...]
Last month a rock slide closed the hiway from Mariposa into Yosemite Valley. (A good central source for news on this is Yosemite Blog, where there are links to numerous related stories.)
Although it wasn’t first reported this way, it now appears that this is a major slide. It has not stopped, the road is completely [...]
I hear from a variety of sources that several of the Sierra Nevada passes subject to winter closures are opening up. Sonora Pass (Hiway 108) is open and Ebbetts Pass (Hiway 4) may open later today. Monitor Pass (Hiway 89 between Hiway 4 and Hiway 395) is open as well.
I went over Sonora Pass last [...]