A congressional act 100 years ago created a California dam that still courts controversy John Muir and his Sierra Club fought in vain to preserve Hetch Hetchy Valley Although Hetch Hetchy is only 25 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 5-mile trail (round-trip) leads from the Hetch Hetchy Valley's O'Shaughnessy Dam to Wapama Falls in Yosemite National Park. The ...
Gazing at the spectacular scenery surrounding Yosemite’s Hetch Hetchy reservoir, I can’t help but marvel. Nature has endowed Tuolumne County with such splendor, it almost doesn’t seem fair. That these ...
Four million people a year funnel into Yosemite Valley to stand under El Capitan ...
Hetch Hetchy is the only part of Yosemite National Park where day-use visitors can enter later this spring and summer without a day-use reservation. Day-use visitors to all other parts of the park ...
A 5-mile trail (round-trip) leads from the Hetch Hetchy Valley’s O’Shaughnessy Dam to Wapama Falls in Yosemite National Park. Christopher Reynolds/Los Angeles Times/TNS The water was winning. Fed by ...
Animals are great. But when I’m hiking, I prefer them at a distance. I’m just glad I’m not alone. Helping me learn how to camp in Yosemite is John DeGrazio, a cheerful, confident explorer with red ...
From the O'Shaughnessy Dam, the moment you cast your gaze across the cobalt-blue Hetch Hetchy and the towering canyon rims, domes and waterfalls, you will feel the power of place. On your right, ...
I’ve always had a soft spot for waterfalls. Who doesn’t? So when I planned a family trip to Yosemite last year, I organized my itinerary around as many of the park’s cascades as possible in late ...
The water was winning. Fed by the heaviest Sierra snowmelt in decades, it gushed down the narrow valley’s walls and rushed across the trail in front of me. The bravest and most foolish hikers plunged ...
A 5-mile trail (round-trip) leads from the Hetch Hetchy Valley's O'Shaughnessy Dam to Wapama Falls in Yosemite National Park. The route skirts the edge of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. (Christopher ...