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Tue Jan-27-09 09:44 PM
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Half Dome this morning

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Tue Jan-27-09 09:48 PM
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1. Cool shot.

my 6th grader daughter is going there for a week-long science camp next month. They're pretty excited.

It's gonna be freezing, but beautiful!

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Tue Jan-27-09 09:52 PM
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2. I've never been there in the winter, but from pictures I've seen

I think it's the most beautiful time of the year there. She's very lucky to get to go there. It certainly will be COLD - hope she's well-prepared for that. You can check on current conditions at:

http://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/conditions.htm

http://www.yosemite.org/vryos/

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Tue Jan-27-09 10:53 PM
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3. Thanks for the links.

Here's the link for the Yosemite Institute, which is the outfit that organizes these school trips. It's pretty cool-looking. They're staying at a camp called Boystown, north of Curry Village.
http://www.yni.org/yi/fieldscience/organize/index.php

My oldest, a freshmen in high school, is jealous of his younger sister b/c they didn't offer this trip back when he was in middle school, so he never got to go!

We're lucky. Yosemite is only about 4 hrs from where we live.

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Tue Jan-27-09 11:04 PM
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4. Yes you are very lucky.

Yosemite is 400 miles from where I live so it's 1 or 2 days driving. My neighbors are also lucky, in the summer of 2007 they got to go on one of those guided hiking trips for 7 days with a ranger, from hut to hut so all they had to carry were their clothes. They documented it extensively on their web site:

http://travelswithbillandnancy.com/high_sierra.htm

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Wed Jan-28-09 01:57 AM
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6. I used to live 12.4 miles from the park gate

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Wed Jan-28-09 10:03 AM
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7. Yeah, rub it in

I live 400 miles away but that's not stopping me - going there in May again

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Wed Jan-28-09 01:55 AM
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5. What a beautiful shot!

That is just gorgeous...

It sure looks cold too...:scared:

Amazing clarity and the colors...

Wow.

Thank you for posting this!

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Wed Jan-28-09 10:06 AM
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8. Yes it is

Not mine obviously. The Yosemite Association has several webcams. I wish they would point one of them towards Yosemite Falls. It's currently 41 degrees there - cold, yes, but not below freezing. The valley floor is only 4000 feet in elevation.

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