Calipidder

Last month Yosemite National Park announced a new permit system for weekend climbs of Half Dome. Today they opened up the reservation site for preview (it is not active yet - the reservation window opens on March 1). Check it out here.
There is also a screenshot-heavy instructional pdf available here, for those who need lots [...]

Snowcamping, Yosemite, and friends. What better way to start the new year?
We drove out to Wawona on New Year’s Eve to meet a bunch of friends at the group campground. After celebrating the new year with a warm campfire, cheap champagne, and lots of laughs, we got a good night of sleep before heading up [...]

This video has been making its way through the Twitterverse and Blogosphere lately, and it’s just too good to not share. It is a black and white tourism video for Yosemite from the early 1940s. Make sure to watch the ancestors of today’s valley bears getting fed by the tourists. The winter sleigh ride through [...]

 
We spent the weekend in Yosemite Valley visiting the tourist sights with Paige and Theresa. Winter is the best time to visit the Valley, assuming that you’re not bothered by snow and cold. This weekend was perfect - the weather was just bad enough that it kept people away, but the sun poked through [...]

My sister came to visit over the past week, and we spent Tuesday checking out all the tourist sites in Yosemite. It was nice to get to all the viewpoints on a weekday in the spring - the crowds weren’t bad and the falls and wildlife were putting on quite a show. We [...]