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“Tom” recently sent me a question about visiting Yosemite in October, so I thought I would reply here where others can see the information, too. I will be in CA in October and was planning on going up to Yosemite for a few days. Any advise you’d care to share would be greatly appreciated. :) [...]

Carefully timing my visit to miss the weekend crowds, I spent the better part of the last week of July (2011) in the Yosemite National Park high country along and around Tioga Pass Road. I posted the first photograph from this visit earlier today, and more will appear here soon. But while the visit is [...]

NOTE: THIS IS NOT A FINISHED POST – IT IS A WORK IN PROGRESS… (This article is an experiment in web publishing. Rather that keeping this article hidden until it is finished, I’m going to make a link to this draft version available and let folks watch it evolve and even comment if they are [...]

I recall first becoming aware of Galen Rowell’s famous photograph of Yosemite’s Horsetail Fall (the “natural fire fall”) some years ago, quite possibly as it appears on page 25 of my 1979 edition of his book “High and Wild” ( Sierra Club Books) which  I probably picked up when I worked in a bookstore for [...]

As more and more people now seem to know, late February is the prime time for the appearance of the “natural fire fall” in Yosemite Valley, when the setting sun may strike Horsetail Fall near the east end of the face of El Capitan, and when viewed from the right angle create a striking light [...]