Yosemite!!!

“I was trying to explain this phenomenon to Mapes (Dork). I have yet to see it. Totally on my to do list.”

“dismemberedtoejam sounds like you have a plan.
The only difference are...no trail system, chance seeing anyone is almost never while out in a real true wilderness...you may see a jet stream overhead maybe......no trash....more animals.....more confidence in yourself when you are actually flown in and dropped off.... more planning to accomplish your goals....more obstacles.....much less information on what's around the bend....no possibility of using a cell phone or even a radio too......

California as is all of the west is a GEM in our great country. I'm lucky I didn't go to California first...I may have never gone to Alaska.”

“I was impressed with Yosemite back country, but I was speechless traveling in Southern Utah. The Grand Staircase Escalante is pretty much like you describe AK, no trails and very few people and very wild. I will be exploring Southern Utah for the rest of my life. Went to Canyonlands (Needles District) for the first time and was blown away.”

“The only difference are...no trail system, chance seeing anyone is almost never while out in a real true wilderness.

That's only true if you don't go with a herd.”

“You have no idea as to why I am taking a herd on this one. You'll be the first to know as soon as I return and e mail you a copy of.....Nimblefoot you don't even backpack! Your really a smart boy. Now go and rub your head now.”

“Really this is really sad! A thread about Yosemite going fuego! SAD SAD SAD! Please keep this meanness in fuego where I don't have to see it.”

“Nimble we had better do this. Let go...”

“I really want to go after seeing so much about it on The National Parks series”

“My cut too short visit to Yosemite.

http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/78613074MaeBeq

http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/78658433iHiMFO


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“You can drop the crouds in the eastern Sierra backcountry. You just have to get off the trail...”

“look at my pic's from the PCT at
http://www.webshots.com/user/oldog105?vhost=community”

“Gorgeous pics! Thanks OD!”

“There's really nothing to see in Yosemite. Just a few rocks, trees and some water.

Move along please..... :-)”

“That's it I'LL NEVER DARKEN THE TRAILS OF YOS-E-MITE AGAIN!!!”

“So, when are you coming back? :-)”

“I'd love to come out next year! I want to see those wagonwheel falls!”

“i wanna go out there next summer too. :)”

“Let's plan a trip!”

“Late August?”

“Sounds good!”

“Put it on the trips page.”

“how would my chances of scoring a first come first serve spot be at one of the Upper/North/Lower Pine campgrounds on or around May 14th?
you guys know a cheap place outside the park for the day before?”

“Where are you coming in from? Oakhurst has some less expensive hotels, or if you want campgrounds there are a number right outside the park proper. Coming in from the northeast- Lee Vining has some great little motels, and the campgrounds around Saddlebag lake aren't going to be to crowded at that time, I don't think.”

“I have used several FS campgrounds and they have always been clean and cheap. This site gives contact info.

[url]http://jrabold.net/yosemite/campn.shtml
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“When Pug and I went we didn't get there until late and there was no camping left in the park. We were too tired to drive 90 miles out of the parkt of find a campground so we parked at one of the campgrounds, picked a direction and started hiking into the woods and just camped there. It was great!”

“Well yeah unless you get caught.”

“OPIE - Slim to nothing. I know of a place near the highway 41 entrance. E-mail me. ;)”

“I'll be coming in 120 from Stockton.”

“Whatcha Cali folks gonna be up to the weekends of the 8th, 15th, or 22nd?”

“On this date in 1864, President Lincoln granted the Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort, and restoration."

A homesteader, Galen Clark, had been so awed by the giant sequoia trees that he vowed to save them from logging; his cause gained momentum and support from photographer Carlton Watkins and Senator John Conness. The Department of the Interior helped them craft a bill, which passed both houses of Congress and was signed by the president in the height of the Civil War. The Yosemite Land Grant of 1864 marked the first time the federal government set aside land specifically for preservation and recreational use. It didn't have the authority to evict homesteaders, though, and that battle continued until 1872, when the Supreme Court voided the homesteaders' claims. Yosemite was declared the nation's first national park that same year.

In 1865, Frederick Law Olmsted wrote a treatise on national parks at the request of the Board of Yosemite Commissioners. In it, the landscape architect � whose most famous work is New York's Central Park � wrote:
"It is a scientific fact that the occasional contemplation of natural scenes of an impressive character, particularly if this contemplation occurs in connection with relief from ordinary cares, change of air and change of habits, is favorable to the health and vigor of men and especially to the health and vigor of their intellect beyond any other conditions which can be offered them, that it not only gives pleasure for the time being but increases the subsequent capacity for happiness and the means of securing happiness." ”

“Interesting that Yosemite's natural state is leading it to be increasingly closed to tourists. Camping spots are going to become even more premium...

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/13/4560450/apnewsbreak-rock-risk-means-yosemite.html”

“I wanna go there.”

“And everybody is worried about the bears...”

“Less campsites equals less people.”

“glad I got my visit in a few yrs ago but I would still like to go back”

““Less campsites equals less people.”

You can wish in one hand....

I really wish I'd gone on that trip with you last September, Sandy.”

“Too bad you didn't Steve! we are trying to string together a late summer trip. I'll keep you posted. I really want to do the high pass loop over Fernandez and Red Peak. Not the cross country one but trail only starting over at Chiquito Pass and Chain Lakes. You go through Yosemite, Ansel Adams, and back through Yosemite.”