The fog has just started filling the valley. Standing there it feels like the temperature drops 25 degrees over the course of just a couple of minutes. In the distance the Yosemite Valley Shuttle pulls out of Curry Village towards Mirror Lake.
read moreAs the afternoon progresses something strange happens in the valley. It’s most likely due to the setting sun radiating less heat down onto the surface. As the air near the ground cools due to the snow and ice covering it and the air up a little bit higher stays warm it produces this rather amazing frozen fog. Out in the…
read moreSaturday was rainy and cold. Sunday morning the sun was broke through the clouds and eventually let the mountain tops show through. There wasn’t any snow in the valley but up at the top everything was encased in snow and ice. By noon there was hardly even any evidence of the previous night’s storm.
read moreThis past weekend involved another trip to a place i love: Yosemite National Park. I can’t quite wrap my mind around the past couple of weeks, shifting between a rather drab work-week and then these fantastic places for about 50 hours. I guess that’s California for you, nothing’s more than a train ride (or a 3 hour drive) away. Yosemite…
read moreThere was a bunch of dust on my scanner that i was too lazy to clean. sorry about that, i don’t think it’ll show too much though. (Happy Birthday Catherine!!)
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