My hoped-for encounter with Mt. Hoffmann in Yosemite National Park did not occur exactly as I expected. It wasn’t that I did not make...

"It's possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill." Wilbur Wright Wright Brothers National Memorial, North...

“To explore is to seek, and to picture is to gather the evidence so all can see and benefit.” A. C. Pillsbury

"Oh! Say! Let us fly, dear Where, kid? To the sky, dear"

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and see they were the big things.”

The gentle 7:00 am gong I hear need not sound out more than once to get me off the thin mattress and out from under three woolen blankets.

If a trail is to be blazed, it is "send a ranger." If an animal is floundering in the snow, a ranger is sent to pull him out; if a bear...

"We were not prepared, and we handled the situation badly. I can only hope we learned something . . . Maybe next time we will have the...

"Walk right in, sit right down And baby, let your mind roll on Hey, walk right in, stay a little while But daddy, you can't stay too...

"At the present time . . . the greatest potential value of the deer lies in their esthetic appeal; the visitor is thrilled with delight."

Its sudden transformation into unabated power and frothy white madness hurling down toward the Valley floor left me with few words.

“This hike should not be attempted by beginning hikers due to the difficulty of the missing portions of the trail."

"The name Anisa is primarily a female name of Arabic origin that means Companion, Faithful Friend." babynames.com Despite five decades of...

I had hiked about 100 yards on the Upper Yosemite Fall trail when I heard a rare but identifiable sound. I stopped and stood as still as...

Yosemite Valley, July 16, 2031 -- A team of linguists, philologists, paleontologists, lexicographers, anthropologists, and archeologists...

"There is no hardship, risk or danger in any part of the Yosemite trip. Many old people and children visit the Valley without difficulty...

“Look closely and I think you will see a future Yosemite experience that will allow everyone to enjoy this place in a way that is...

The week of July 27th, 2015 averaged 100 degrees in Yosemite Valley during the day. At night, the humidity reached over 40%. That week I...

"People in motion . . . People in motion." San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) John Phillips, Songwriter (1967) Yosemite...

In a study conducted by scientists at Northwestern University, researchers reported that Individuals “were more likely to remember an...