Its sudden transformation into unabated power and frothy white madness hurling down toward the Valley floor left me with few words.

“This hike should not be attempted by beginning hikers due to the difficulty of the missing portions of the trail."

"The name Anisa is primarily a female name of Arabic origin that means Companion, Faithful Friend." babynames.com Despite five decades of...

I had hiked about 100 yards on the Upper Yosemite Fall trail when I heard a rare but identifiable sound. I stopped and stood as still as...

Yosemite Valley, July 16, 2031 -- A team of linguists, philologists, paleontologists, lexicographers, anthropologists, and archeologists...

"There is no hardship, risk or danger in any part of the Yosemite trip. Many old people and children visit the Valley without difficulty...

“Look closely and I think you will see a future Yosemite experience that will allow everyone to enjoy this place in a way that is...

The week of July 27th, 2015 averaged 100 degrees in Yosemite Valley during the day. At night, the humidity reached over 40%. That week I...

"People in motion . . . People in motion." San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) John Phillips, Songwriter (1967) Yosemite...

In a study conducted by scientists at Northwestern University, researchers reported that Individuals “were more likely to remember an...

"As scientists learn more, the emphasis, in some cases, is on managing the behavior of humans rather than the behavior of bears."

"This noble fall has far the richest, as well as the most powerful, voice of all the falls of the Valley, its tones varying from the...

"Your second grader’s story should describe an event — or a series of events — using details to describe the characters’ actions,...

“And as if fearing that anything eatable in all his dominions should escape being eaten, [the bear] breaks into cabins to look after...

". . . its hospitality and gift-sharing occur unexpectedly in its own way and in its own time. "

“The cayote is a long, slim, sick and sorry-looking skeleton, with a gray wolfskin stretched over it . . ." Mark Twain

“Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.” -- Barbara Johnson, American Literary Critic

“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our...

"Bring back as many as you can stuff in your cheeks." Brutus

“Why was I not made of stone like thee?”