Yosemite Travel Blog

There are just a couple of weeks left for Half Dome hiking; the park trail crew de-rigs the cables for winter afer Columbus Day weekend. An overnight backpacking Wilderness permit or a Half Dome day-hiking permit is required for any hiking ascent to the summit. There’s a lot of demand for a small...

Rather than join the weekly winter parade up I-80 from San Francisco to Lake Tahoe, and knowing the weather was likely to be unseasonably warm, making for less than stellar skiing conditions, my girlfriend and I headed to Yosemite to experience the joys of the park, sans summertime crowds. Fearful of...