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Showing posts with label Yosemite Valley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yosemite Valley. 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...
Sunday, October 30, 2022

How It Was Today: Fall in Yosemite Valley

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How it ended... How it began... I woke up late this morning. Mrs. Geotripper was finishing breakfast and asked if I'd like "to go u...
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Monday, September 19, 2022

The Other Yosemites: The Treasured Valleys of the Sierra Nevada

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"Yosemite is so wonderful that we are apt to regard it as an exceptional creation, the only valley of its kind in the world; but Nature...
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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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Monday, March 14, 2022

The Merced River of California: A Place for Wildflowers and Landslides (and Yosemite Valley)

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The Merced River is one of California's extraordinary waterways. First and foremost, it is the river that carved Yosemite Valley, which ...
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Garry Hayes
I am a teacher of geology at Modesto Junior College and former president of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, Far Western Section. I have led field trips all over the western United States, and a few excursions overseas, but my homebase is the Sierra Nevada, the Great Valley, and the Coast Ranges of California.
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