Park: Yosemite National Park

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  • Yosemite National Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    [Last Modified: Mar 13, 2010]

    ) is a national park spanning eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera counties in east central California, United States. The park covers an area of 761,266 acres (308,073 ha) and reaches across the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountain chain.

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  • Yosemite Institute | NatureBridge

    [Last Modified: Mar 14, 2010]

    Yosemite Institute partners with the National Park Service to provide outdoor education for youth in Yosemite National Park.

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  • Yosemite Hiking Map, Trail Information

    [Last Modified: May 30, 2009]

    This interactive mapping application helps Yosemite visitors plan their hikes. Trails can be selected according to difficulty, length, etc. Relevant information is displayed along with the hiking route and a profile. A photo gallery features geo-referenced images. The viewpoint of these photos is visualized in the interactive map. Users can print maps to take them along on their hike.

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  • Half Dome Hike in Yosemite

    [Last Modified: Oct 04, 2006]

    Half Dome Hike in Yosemite National Park. Includes Half Dome HIke trip report and other useful facts and links.

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  • Yosemite Indian Chiefs. | The Hive

    [Last Modified: Mar 14, 2010]

    When some of the first European-Americans entered Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy they were met with the first inhabitants of the area. That was the Ahwahnees who were mainly Mono Paiutes.

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  • Edith Irvine Collection » Harold B. Lee Library

    Like the depression-era tenant farmers found in James Agee and Walker Evans’ book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Edith Irvine could bear the ironic title of “let us now praise famous women.” Certainly her photographic efforts were largely unknown, except possibly to family and friends, until their donation to the Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library Archives in February 1988. Jim Irvine, Edith’s nephew, son of her older brother Robert, donated 16 prints and 275 glass...

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  • The Complete Guidebook to Yosemite National Park (Complete Guide to Yosemite National...
    The Complete Guidebook to Yosemite National Park (Complete...

    [Author: Stephen D. Medley] [Pages: 120] [ISBN: 1597140872] [Pub. Date: 2008]

    Customer Rating: 8 (10 votes)

    Product Description

    This guidebook features things to see and do,lists hiking trails and backpacking tips, shares information about Yosemite's history and place names, and more.

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  • Hiking Yosemite National Park, 2nd (Hiking Guide Series)
    Hiking Yosemite National Park, 2nd (Hiking Guide Series)

    [Author: Suzanne Swedo] [Pages: 288] [ISBN: 0762730552] [Pub. Date: 2005]

    Customer Rating: 9 (11 votes)

    Product Description

    This fully revised and updated guide to hiking in Yosemite National Park will help readers choose and plan a day hike or backpacking trip best suited to their time, energy, experience, and personal preferences. There are fifty-nine classic day hikes and overnight backpacking trips meticulously prepared by backcountry guide Suzanne Swedo.

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  • Yosemite, The Complete Guide: Yosemite National Park
    Yosemite, The Complete Guide: Yosemite National Park

    [Author: James Kaiser] [Pages: 304] [ISBN: 0967890470] [Pub. Date: 2007]

    Customer Rating: 9 (17 votes)

    Product Description

    From luxury lodges to rugged multi-day backpacks, this handy guide reveals the best of Yosemite National Park through vivid, full-color photography and informed writing. More than 20 hikes, ranging from easy to difficult, are covered in depth, with trail descriptions, elevation charts, maps, and photos. Chapters on history, geology, ecology, and wildlife are included along with essential information on lodging, camping, outdoor adventures, and popular park activities in Yosemite Valley, Tuolumne Meadows, Wawona, and Hetch Hetchy. From the world-famous views of cliffs, waterfalls, polished granite domes, and giant sequoia groves to fine dining at the High Sierra Camp, this comprehensive...

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  • 100 Hikes in Yosemite National Park
    100 Hikes in Yosemite National Park

    [Author: Marc J. Soares] [Pages: 286] [ISBN: 089886867X] [Pub. Date: 2003]

    Customer Rating: 8 (7 votes)

    Product Description

    Your guide to the best assortment of family walks, day hikes, overnighters, weekend trips, and backpacking adventures that Yosemite National Park has to offer! 100 Hikes in Yosemite National Park includes Yosemite Valley (Half Dome, Yosemite Falls, El Capitan), Tuolumne Meadows (great for peak bagging), Hetch Hechy Reservoir (excellent, less trafficked trails above the reservoir and along the Tuolumne River), Wawona (see the giant Sequioas), and Glacier Point area (more opportunity for solitude yet less than an hour outside the valley). 90% of the trails presented are easily accessible by car Tips for avoiding peak foot traffic times on most trails More than 100 color photos--a...

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  • Yosemite National Park: A Natural-History Guide to Yosemite and Its Trails
    Yosemite National Park: A Natural-History Guide to Yosemite...

    [Author: Jeffrey P. Schaffer] [Pages: 288] [ISBN: 0899972446] [Pub. Date: 2000]

    Customer Rating: 9 (9 votes)

    Product Description

    In this recent edition of our classic bestseller, all trail descriptions have been updated. Schaffer also covers the practical aspects of hiking including regulations, permits, trailheads, campgrounds, and more. Comes with folded topo map.

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  • Yosemite National Park Tour Guide Book: Your Personal Tour Guide For Yosemite Travel...
    Yosemite National Park Tour Guide Book: Your Personal Tour...

    [Author: Waypoint Tours] [Pages: 66] [ISBN: 1441493018] [Pub. Date: 2009]

    Product Description

    Discover the incredible highlights, history, geology & nature of Yosemite National Park with this entertaining, educational, point-by-point Waypoint Tour complete with travel expert stories, breathtaking photography & detailed tour maps. Your personal tour guide for Yosemite travel adventure! www.waypointtours.com Waypoints Include: 1) Yosemite 2) Bridalveil Fall W1 3) El Capitan & Bridalveil View V14 4) Sentinel Rock & Four-Mile Trail V18 5) Sentinel Bridge & Cooks Meadow 6) Curry Village V22 7) Happy Isles & Waterfalls V24 8) Stoneman Meadow & Royal Arches V23 9) Yosemite Village V1 10) Ahwahnee Lodge 11) Yosemite Falls V3 12) Tunnel View W2...

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  • Yosemite National Park, CA - Trails Illustrated Map # 206
    Yosemite National Park, CA - Trails Illustrated Map # 206

    [Author: National Geographic Maps] [ISBN: 1566952999] [Pub. Date: 2005]

    Customer Rating: 10 (2 votes)

    Product Description

    Coverage includes Stanislaus National Forest, Emigrant Wilderness, Carson Iceberg Wilderness, Toiyabe National Forest, Hoover Wilderness, Inyo National Forst, Yosemite Wilderness, Sierra National Forest, Ansel Adams Wilderness. Detail on Yosemite Valley and Tuolumne Meadows. Includes UTM grids for use with your GPS unit.

    Scale = 1:80,000 & 1:40,000 Size: 38'' x 26''

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  • Geologic Story of Yosemite National Park

    [Author: N. King Huber] [ISBN: 0939666499] [Pub. Date: 1989]

    Customer Rating: 10 (2 votes)

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    An authoritative study of Yosemite's geology, written in layman's terms.

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  • Yosemite National Park map
    Yosemite National Park map

    [Author: Benchmark Maps] [Pages: 2] [ISBN: 0783498470] [Pub. Date: 2009]

    Product Description

    The same, award winning, landscape mapping found in their atlases can now be found on the new Benchmark folded map of Yosemite National Park. This map includes a regional map of the surrounding area, with special enlargements of the Park and Yosemite Valley on the reverse. Every rock and crag is beautifully mapped, with points of interest listed and described.

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  • Dam!: Water, Power, Politics, and Preservation in Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite National Park
    Dam!: Water, Power, Politics, and Preservation in Hetch...

    [Author: John W. Simpson] [Pages: 384] [ISBN: 0375422315] [Pub. Date: 2005]

    Customer Rating: 8 (4 votes)

    Product Description

    A vivid account of America’s first environmental cause célèbre, which illuminates our attitudes toward fundamental questions of growth, development, and our place in nature.

    The building of the O’Shaughnessy Dam and Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in the middle of Yosemite National Park–despite the availability of less expensive, less technically challenging, and less politically complicated possibilities–set off a defining controversy in American environmentalism. From the early 1900s to 1913 Americans argued about proposals to dam the Tuolumne River and transform the extraordinary Hetch Hetchy Valley into a giant source of water and hydroelectric power for the San Francisco Bay Area....

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