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Current Conditions
The Tioga and Glacier Point Roads are closed due to snow. They usually reopen in late May or June, depending on conditions.

Visit the conditions update for more information and other road closures.

Carry tire chains in your car and be prepared to use them (even if you have four-wheel drive): chains may become mandatory at any time.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link

the image of adam in a giant coat struggling to put chains on his civic while slowly being covered by a blanket of snow fills me with amusement and pity.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Aye.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Yosemite is my absolute, unconditional, favorite national park. Have one fun, @d@m!

― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I will. I will have one fun.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I may never come back, I think.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Where y'all staying up yonder?

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:11 (nineteen years ago) link

The Waworoanoaaoaana Hotel.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Wawona is the town I 'grew up' in.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link

lucky adam.

― charleston charge (chaki), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I am going tubing. In an inner tube. On snow.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:17 (nineteen years ago) link

At Summit Meadows or Old Badger?

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:20 (nineteen years ago) link

We have the snow chains. Tioga Pass (through the park) may be closed. We are taking 41 to Wawona. Where are the restaurants? I get the sense that the further East you go, you might get some pockets of weirdness. I hear of a famed gas station that also serves cocktails and fantastic sandiwches? How far is Monolake? Is it worth taking a little side-trip? WHAT is Monolake?

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I hear of a famed gas station that also serves cocktails and fantastic sandiwches?

Yeah, it's at the intersection of 120 and 365 but you can't get there right now. Tioga is closed.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link

What does Tioga road being closed mean, in the grand scheme of things?

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not a very verbal person, I need to SEE things to understand them.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link

It means it's under many feet of snow and you probably can't drive past White Wolf on Hwy. 120.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:38 (nineteen years ago) link

What's past WHite Wolf? What CAN I drive to?

Also talk about Monolake.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Do you have a Native American name, Michael?

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Mono Lake. Lee Vining is the closest town. It has a gas station, 2 restaurants, a bar, and a little coffee shop. To get there at this time of year, you have to take 50 to 89 and then drive down 395 (not 365 as I said upthread).

Since you're going up 41 to Wawwona, you should content yourself with going to Summit Meadows for the inner tubing. When you leave (I assume on Monday) you should go out through Yosemite Valley. Distance and time should not be underestimated as the speed limit in Yosemite is 35 mph and with snow/ice conditions it may not be always safe to go that fast.

http://www.chateaudusureau.com/eehmain.html This is the best restaurant in the Sierras but very, very dear.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I just mispelled Wawona too. Je suis con.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link

leaving tomorro!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link

There's probably still a picture of me in the map they give out at the entrance. I was five (or six?) when it was taken.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 17 February 2005 19:04 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

I have never been. I would like to go someday in snowmelt season. But what is it like in the, Fall?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link

i want to do a big wall in yosemite in the worst way.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link

yosemite is really pretty gorgeous all year round.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link

four months pass...

looks like I may be able to get to Yosemite (finally) the last week of October. Would probably be a mid-week thing for a few days at least, and the guys I would be going with are pretty serious hikers/climbers. They want to hit the backcountry.

Is it pretty dry up there that time of year (the website hinted that there's not much melt going on) in the falls and creeks and rivers and whatnot? I don't mind nasty or cold weather, just wondering if I should shoot my wad in a different season or need more than a few days.

― don weiner (don weiner), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link

See Shakey's post. The aspens will be at the tail end of their color turning but the place will gorgeous and the Valley is lovely that time of year. May I assume that you'll not be joining your friends in the backcountry?

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

my understanding is it's very nice, but pretty dry if that's what you're going for. I want to go to SF sometime in this season, but I want to go to Yosemite in spring ('07?) first, marine layer or not. my parents have been at least twice in early spring in recent years and say it's amazing then, but they're not backcountry people.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I want to backpack in the outside-the-park wilderness areas even more, but that's much likelier later rather than sooner.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:22 (seventeen years ago) link

The cool dry valley emptied of many of its many summer visitors, with the reddish afternoon sun to the west silhouetting the oaks, the cool approach of winter in the wind and the blue-grey sheer faces of granite are lovely. I would say eveybody needs more than a few days, but take advantage of the opportunity to see it any time of year.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link

if I could go anywhere of the type around that time, it would be the Southern Rockies

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll go wherever the other guys want to. I think they've seen the famous sights when they were there before, so I think that's why they want to go into the backcountry. I figure at some point I'll be back there with my wife/family to see the touristy stuff, but the chances to get out in the middle of BFE seem to get harder and harder with each passing year. (But if I do this, that means I can't backpack in the Presidential range this winter, and getting out to the West Coast is such a bigger trip than staying in EST.)

I really want to go. I'm horribly envious that you lived there M. White.

― don weiner (don weiner), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:37 (seventeen years ago) link

fourteen years pass...

Classic gabbneb posts ITT: flooding the thread with irrelevant posts about a place he's never been with other posts about other places he'd never been.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 1 March 2021 20:49 (three years ago) link

Anyways, as someone who has descended this slope on foot 2x, this footage of skiiers descending Half Dome's shoulder is absolutely bonkers:

https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2021/02/27/two-skiers-defy-death-yosemite-descent/6851728002/

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 1 March 2021 20:49 (three years ago) link

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