Celebrating Yosemite 12: Closing Thoughts and Hiking Half Dome
When I began thinking about writing a book on Yosemite my wife insisted that I simply could not write aContinue Reading
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Celebrating Yosemite Part 10: Yosemite’s Unlikely Role in the Sage Brush Rebellion
Located just four miles inside Yosemite National Park, the small community of Wawona appears as an unlikely place for whichContinue Reading
Celebrating Yosemite Part 9: Wilderness in Yosemite
The Wilderness Act turns fifty this month. Signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on September 3, 1964, the actContinue Reading
Celebrating Yosemite Part 7 – The First Ascent of El Capitan and the Question of Appropriate Recreation
At 6:00 a.m. on November 12, 1958, after climbing through the night, Warren Harding, Wayne Merry, and George Whitmore pulledContinue Reading
Celebrating Yosemite Part 6 – Solace During a Time of War
Arriving at Clark Point on a March afternoon in 1943, Yosemite’s Employment Manager Frank Ewing happened upon a solitary manContinue Reading
Celebrating Yosemite Part 5 – The 1937 Yosemite Valley Flood
A light rain began falling in the Yosemite Valley on the morning of December 9, 1937. By the afternoon theContinue Reading
Celebrating Yosemite Part 3 – The Banning of Automobiles from Yosemite
From the first steam powered vehicle that entered the park in 1900 through the recent struggle over the MercedContinue Reading
