Showing posts with label Yosemite National Park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yosemite National Park. Show all posts
Saturday, April 12, 2025

Do You Think You Know the Highest Waterfall in Yosemite Valley? You Could Be Wrong!

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Quick quiz: What is the name of this waterfall? What is the highest waterfall in Yosemite Valley? Depending on the parameters one can use to...
Friday, March 25, 2022

A Tale of Two Pullouts: Yosemite Valley From a Different Angle

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El Capitan and the Merced River from the east I know that I am truly privileged living as I do only a two-hour drive from one of the most su...
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Friday, January 21, 2022

I'm Occasionally Reminded I'm Near an Extraordinary Mountain Range: John Muir's Range of Light

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It was one of those rare days of winter in the Great Valley of California. Recent rains have tamped down the dust, and gusty winds chased aw...
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Wednesday, August 4, 2021

A Different Kind of "Other": Yosemite of the Pandemic

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Half Dome from Sentinel Bridge I've spent a fair amount of time writing about "The Other California" , the spectacular places ...
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Friday, August 7, 2020

The Way it Was: Yosemite in the Times of a Pandemic

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Tunnel View, close to the spot where the valley was first "discovered" by European colonizers The pandemic rages on, and our lives...
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Friday, January 3, 2020

Getting to Know Special Places: An Invitation to Explore the Tuolumne River (And Birds! Lots of Birds)

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Not all of you know that I actually have two blogs. Geotripper has been active since the late Paleozoic of cyberworld (2008), but I...
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