p. 119: Glacier Lodge changes its web address

Try jewelofthesierra.com.

P. 38: Rogers and Manly Rescue, Death Valley to San Fernando (not the Owens!) and back--500 miles round trip--on foot

William L. Manly (1820-1903)They had been given fifteen days to find help—or something to eat, or at the very least a decent trail—and then return to camp. They set off, their packs filled with with "seven-eighths of all the flesh of an ox... a couple spoonfuls of rice and about as much tea... [and] all the money there was in camp."

"They crossed a gap south of Telescope Peak, staying on the mountain that night," wrote historian W.A. Chalfant in Death Valley: The Facts (1930). "They descended to the pool in the Panamint Valley, only to find its brine a literally bitter disappointment. On the next range they found the Jayhawker trail, and near it holes dug by that party in the vain hope of finding water. Near the summit they came upon the body of Fish ["a Mr. Fish of Indiana"], lying as he had fallen."

They descended the west flank of the Argus Range, across what is now the China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station, and from the Cosos, by the light of the moon, made a beeline for the snow in the Sierra Nevada.

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Chapter 7: New Yosemite Reservations Number

Snow on Half Dome from Cooks Meadow, Kenny Karst, DNC Parks & Resorts at YosemiteThe new central reservation number for Yosemite National Park accommodations is 801-559-5000 (formerly 559-252-4848).

DNC lodgings in Yosemite include the Wawona, the Yosemite Lodge at the Falls, Curry Village, Tuolomne Lodge, White Wolf Lodge, the High Sierra Camps, and the Ahwahnee.

"The new area code will provide guests reduced calling rates and superior service," claims the concessionaire.

Read the press release.

Online reservations can still be made at www.yosemitepark.com