Friday
May152009
Care for a Swim?
;)
Drought's on but the water's up in Lake Kaweah—for nowThe reservoir is at 704 feet. The river is peaking at just under 2400 cfs at Three Rivers. Check flow here.
Explorer's Guide to
YOSEMITE &
THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA
(2nd edition)
by David T. Page
"Open to any page and you'll find a great story, along with details that will inspire travel—and more reading." —Westways
Notes Index
- 5 Disappearing Species & Where to See Them
- Antonioni's Zabriskie Point Now on DVD
- Backcountry Sequoia Burns
- Bishop, Mammoth Named Top Places to Live in CA
- Blood, Guts & Tarweed: MTB Dawn Patrol on the Ragged Fringe of Sequoia N.P.
- CA Wilderness Bills Climb Out of House Committee
- Call of the Asphalt
- Campsite Fees to Balloon this Summer
- Caption Contest!
- Care for a Swim?
- Cell Phones in the Wilderness
- Classic Yosemite Pics at Nat Geo Traveler
- Connecting the Front Door to the Wild
- Counting Sheep
- Dean Potter Solo on the Nose of El Cap
- Death Calls W.A. Chalfant
- Death Valley in 3-D
- Derrick Dodd’s Tough [Hen] Story
- Desert Squirrels Block Solar Energy
- Desertgold's A'blooming on Furnace Creek Fan
- Drought! It's official!
- Early Spring, Eureka Dunes
- Europe Invades Wild West
- Farther
- Feasting in the Forest
- Featured on Bookglutton.com
- Featured on Roadtrip America
- Flushing the Grand
- Fly-Fishing for Trout in Winter Is Hot
- Free Pass to Public Lands: National Park Week 2008
- Glacier Point Road Open For Season; Tioga not yet
- Gypsy Ski Touring, Or: The Significance of the Romanian Alps
- Hardest Place to Get to on the Planet?
- High Sierra Beat Poet at 78
- High and Low Water at Lake Kaweah
- Highway 140 Re-opened, Hot Showers Restored
- How to Make Your Own Skis (and why there might be a revolution in it)
- Hurtling toward the Range of Light
- If There Aren’t Any Trees Left, How Can They Burn?
- Invasive Wolverine?
- Ken Burns Does Yosemite
- M.A.D. Mountain-Pub Crawl
- Mammoth Summer Fun
- Manson Dig Called Off
- Manson Victims Still Buried in Death Valley?
- Mike Huckabee's Squirrel Recipe
- Move Over Fish: Here Come the Frogs!
- Muir & Yosemite
- NASA Looks at Mono Lake
- New Stamp for the Sixth Extinction
- New Yosemite Climbing Exhibit
- Not Finding Nemo
- Nothing Lasts Forever
- Oh Yeah, that Pesky Drought
- Old Man Winter Sticks Around for Trout Opener
- On Assignment: Ridgecrest, CA, USA
- On Promoting Our National Parks
- On Safari in the Bodie Hills: A Great Place to Visit (and Take Care of)
- On Storm Traveling
- On Walden Pond (Notes from a Crowded June Lake in July)
- On the Road to Little Petroglyph
- Pacific Fisher vs. Loggers
- Parks Concessionaire Looks Closer than the Ukraine for Seasonal Help
- Pikas to Fend for Themselves
- Pioneering Tioga: What It Takes to Get the Road Open
- Pollution without Borders
- Putnam's
- Rituals: A Fire Must be Fed
- Scottish Squirrels Block Housing Development
- Senators Push For Guns in National Parks
- Sierra May Have Risen Earlier Than Previously Thought
- Skiing California's 14ers
- Skiing California's Sonora Pass in Backcountry Mag
- Skiing Death Valley
- Spy Drones to Patrol Sierra Nevada
- Summer at the Sage—Yeehaw!
- Sweet New Review in Latest Eastside Mag
- The Collected Sierra Nevada
- The Last Run
- The Latest Great American Bison Massacre
- The Most Underrated Country in the World
- The Nose in 2 hours, 43 minutes, 33 seconds
- The One Thousand Dozen (on breaking trail)
- The Problem with Squirrels
- The Stroll from Oakland to Yosemite, Reprise
- To Mammoth in 65 Minutes--for $79
- Traveler's Omertà: On the Secrets We Might Should Keep
- Traveling Through California: The Vroman's Interview
- Twilight of the Travel Guidebook?
- Unseating the Bristlecone?
- Useful, Progressive, Blunt-nosed Mechanical Beetles: John Muir's Notes on Cars in Yosemite
- Verizon Takes the Desert
- What the Bear Ate
- Where the Crowds Go
- Where to See the Perseids in CA? Why, Out Back of Course.
- Who Is the World's Most Traveled Man?
- Wild Ice
- Wild Snow
- Winter in the Woods: David Huebner's Paean-in-Gray to the Sierra Nevada Backcountry, and to Lives Excellently Lived
- Wolverine Appears in Sierra Nevada
- World Moves to Ban Plastic Bags
- Writing and Driving: Notes from 1000 RPMs
- Yosemite Book in Whole Life Times
- Yosemite from the Air
- Yosemite's Building Zoo
- Yosemite/Sierra Guidebook Wins Top Award
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First Edition Updates
- 2nd Edition? (or Twilight of the Travel Guidebook)
- Chap. 5: New Life for The Village Ghost Town
- p. 230: New Chef at Sequoia High Sierra Camp
- p. 196: Mono Inn Roadhouse Closed for 2008
- p. 181: Restaurant Lulu Packs up, Moves Back to SF
- p. 119: Glacier Lodge changes its web address
- P. 38: Rogers and Manly Rescue, Death Valley to San Fernando (not the Owens!) and back--500 miles round trip--on foot
- Chapter 7: New Yosemite Reservations Number
Clips
Death Valley's Secret Stash
(Men's Journal)
Really Old Masters
(NY Times)
The World's Most Traveled Man?
(Men's Journal)
Skiing CA's 14ers
(Eastside Magazine)
Wild Ice
(NY Times)
Rituals: The Last Run
(NY Times)
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May 15, 2009
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