Showing posts with label If These Cliffs Could Talk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label If These Cliffs Could Talk. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

If These Cliffs Could Talk: Tis-sa-ack and Tu-tok-a-nu-la (A Geologic Love Story Redux)

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I've been to Yosemite Valley twice in the last month, including a day when the Merced River was still at flood stage. I was reflecting o...
Monday, January 12, 2015

If These Cliffs Could Talk: The Ah-wah-nee, To-tau-kon-nu'-la, and a Different History of the Sierra Nevada

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The first question might be "what is that?". It's a pair of climbers, Kevin Jorgeson and Tommy Caldwell, on El Capitan (To-...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

If These Cliffs Could Talk: The Cliffs of the Ah-wah-nee that Never Got Legends

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Do you know these places? Would a place that has cliffs like these merit being declared a national park? Thankfully, these rocky pr...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

If These Cliffs Could Talk: Tu-tok-a-nu'-la, the Greatest Cliff of All in the Ah-wah-nee

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So...who was the first to climb El Capitan, the stupendous cliff in Yosemite Valley? There are those who say it was Warren Harding, Wayne ...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014

If These Cliffs Could Talk: Wa-ha'-ka, the Three Brothers Who Are All Out of Joint

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Actually the Three Brothers are just full of joints, and that's the problem. If any legends exist concerning the rocks known as the ...
Saturday, December 6, 2014

If These Cliffs Could Talk: The Legend of Kos-su-kah, Tee-hee-nay, and Hum-mo in the Valley of the Ah-wah-nee

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  I've done a lot of traveling in the last month, from Arizona and back, to Pinnacles National Park, and then through Northern Cali...
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Friday, November 14, 2014

If These Cliffs Could Talk: Tis-sa-ack and Tu-tok-a-nu-la (A Geologic Love Story)

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Tis-sa-ack (Half Dome) from near Yosemite Falls A love story... Unnumbered snows have come and gone since The Great Spirit led a band...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

If These Cliffs Could Talk: A Sentinel People Sometimes Miss in Yosemite

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If you saw this picture out of context, perhaps in the opening frames of an adventure movie, you might think of this cliff as being an oth...