These signs are placed on Yosemite’s roadways each year near places where cars have hit bears. They grow in number as each season progresses until just before the first snows are expected when they are removed so the snow plows … Continue reading →
For the fifth year in a row some of the staff here attended the Yosemite Facelift event, co-sponsored by the Yosemite Climbing Association (YCA) and the National Park Service (NPS) with many other co-sponsors offering financial support and material items … Continue reading →
Our garden has been producing well all summer except that the tomatoes have been a disappointment. Fortunately, we still have lots of tomatoes in our freezer from last year and have been adding squashes, chopped onions and fresh peppers to … Continue reading →
Recently in Yosemite Valley, 3 mule deer bucks have been seen foraging together, but occasionally they’ve become aggressive toward one another clashing head-on with their large, sharp antlers. It has been a unique experience to see them though we’ve had … Continue reading →
The Tenaya Fire located between the Tioga Pass Road and the north rim of Yosemite Valley on both sides of the Lahamite Creek Trail, began during the afternoon of Monday, 9/7 and spread quickly to about 500 acres. Active suppression … Continue reading →
In the past week, our tours have seen several different Black Bears (which are usually colored light to medium brown). As you may know, in Eastern North America where Ursus americanus was first named, their colors are mostly black to … Continue reading →
After an unseasonably cool May, the warm weather has finally returned to the Yosemite area. Coincidentally we saw our first bear on one of our first tours of the season. It appeared to be a yearling and like many sightings … Continue reading →
Lisa and I took a road trip through some National Parks in possible preparation for expanding our operations to some of the other national parks in Utah, Arizona, and other localities in California. Our first stop was in Lone Pine, … Continue reading →
The Mariposa County Board of Supervisors hosted the CalTrans management and design teams for the Ferguson Project on Highway 140. Those attending were treated to a review of and the latest planning for that project. We were told that the … Continue reading →
As warm weather prevailed well into December, we’d been planting “winter vegetables” (bak choi, brussel sprouts, broccoli, lettuces, kohlrabi, mustard greens, cilantro, etc.) that thrived and grew well. During the week of Christmas through New Years however, we were hit … Continue reading →
