Tenaya Lake Christmas Day 2011

A new postcard. Perhaps a poster. Maybe a snapshot.

An Early Christmas Gift from Laura

With the warm weather continuing and Tioga Pass open, Bryan called me up and asked if I could go to Hoffman. Laura gave me an early Christmas present and said yes. So at 6:30am we were driving out of the Valley listening to a live Pearl Jam show from 2003 (a 48 song concert from Boston!) and finding ourselves alone of the highway. The weather had to have been 60 degrees (it was perfect) and there was no wind or a cloud in the sky. By 10:15 we were on the summit of Mt. Hoffman (renamed Mt. Holden for the day) taking pictures and then returning back to the car. I was dropped off at home by 1pm and had a great afternoon with Laura and Holden, and then a beautiful evening at the Bracebridge event- Holden was the star once again. Enjoy some high country snapshots taken in December, of all months. This is some crazy weather, lets all use it.

Yosemite Point of View

There was a light snowfall that blew across Yosemite Valley Thursday night. So today being a day and a half later, we (Bryan, Jim and myself) found ourselves wandering up the Yosemite Falls trail to Yosemite Point to see how much snow fell and to see the valley from on high. These are a couple of the views. The first postcard is the overlook of Yosemite Falls from the higher vantage of Yosemite Point. The second postcard is near the top of the Falls trail. Enjoy.

Pohono Trail Shots

Up and down the south side of the valley is what Bryan S. and I did yesterday to begin my training for the half-ironman next July. Up the 4-Mile trail and down the Pohono Trail towards the Tunnel View where a detour down the old stagecoach road took us to the Bridalveil Falls parking lot. We then hopped on our bicycles for the ride several miles back to the car. A loop as they say, and the map shows. Above are a few snapshots from yesterday. As you can see the weather is a mighty fine sunny and holding at a pleasant California temperature. The top postcard is Bryan on the rim while I stood over at Taft Point. The second postcard was taken from the other direction while a professional slacklining photo shoot was occurring and I was told to "SHHHH" as I walked by by spectators from the midwest or central valley (we couldn't ell the difference- bad joke.) The last view is back towards the valley and you can see Sentinal Rock off in the distance where we began the trail hours before. Enjoy some new photographs finally, because I enjoyed taking them.

It's Your B-Day, In Da Club...

Since its my day, I've taken the opportunity to post a non-Yosemite photo, but something I photographed recently. This is from Big Sur last week and the image goes good with what I'm listening to right now: the Grateful Dead concert from 10-19-990. Enjoy.

From the Archive's #2

Rojo and I sat in this spot with this view and had lunch on our Grand Canyon of the Tuolomnee dayhike. We also saw it in black and white. Enjoy an oldie/outtake from September.

From the Archives

An outtake from June 29th, looking down on the upper part of the Yosemite Falls trail. Its been over a month with nothing new, so I thought I might post a few from the archive for a short span. There has to be a few left over from this year. Enjoy.