Yosemite Photos, Video and News

Rock Climbing at the Cookie Cliff on a warm spring day, 2/19/12

Badger Pass has great coverage and great skiing from the last storm. The powder skiing today was excellent!

Really nice sunset on Half Dome last night, 2/14/12

Yosemite Valley covered in fresh snow this morning, 2/15/12

Yosemite Daily Photo-  Looking up the Merced River drainage at Bridalveil Falls, 2/12/12

Rock climber at Cookie Cliff on this beautiful day, 2/12/12

2012 Yosemite Associate Achievement Banquet 2/9/11

Was going through my files and found this photo of the El Portal Market and town photos on 11/17/07. Not sure who took it. Maybe John Sun

Link to download file> myyosemite.com/2007_11_17_0189.zip

I hope John does not mind

Yes we have covered it before and the endangered species, the rare "Turnout" is rapidly disappearing in Yosemite.
Here we see where there was once a large colony of Turnouts thre is nothing left but turned up dirt and soon nothing will be left but rocks.
If you have been a long time visitor of Yosemite Valley you will remember seeing these everywhere, there was no shortage. Slowly they have been disappearing only to be replaced by logs or rocks. Now there are long lines of cars and huge traffic jams as folks look for the elusive Turnout! Once numbering in the hundreds in Yosemite Valley they have slowly dwindled away and one expert expects them to almost disappear.

The new bridge in Foresta over Crane Creek replacing the old creaking wood bridge.

These photos show Hwy 120 in Yosemite and the area where the rock came down on 1/22/12. As you can see NPS has made great progress and has what is left of the road paved. It looks like it will take a lot of work to fix the downhill side where part of the road and the wall were taken out.
You can also see the release point where the large boulder came from. I am no expert but this type of release looks like it is much less likely to continue with rockfall than say a crumbling cliff side. It appears to be just a random boulder that fell off and this is good news.

Today's photos show Badger Pass Ski Area with not much as is the most of the Sierra.