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An orange car drives on the road in the foreground.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park on Oct. 23, 2022. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pawlitz wrote in a statement that there have been multiple “unauthorized demonstrations involving El Capitan” and that “displaying signs, banners, and flags outside of designated First-Amendment areas detracts from the visitor experience and the protection of the park.” Demonstrations, she added, require a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/management/upload/ep-compendium.pdf\">permit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yosemite has First Amendment \u003ca href=\"https://public-nps.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/nps::yosemite-national-park-designated-first-amendment-areas-open-data/about\">zones\u003c/a>, where 25 or more people can gather in permitted demonstrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to emphasize that we take the protection of the park’s resources and the experience of our visitors very seriously, and will not tolerate violations of laws and regulations that impact those resources and experiences,” Pawlitz wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joslin said flying the flag was not a demonstration, but rather a celebration of identity, and criticized the parks service for taking action against them and not others who have similarly displayed flags on the prominent rock wall facing Yosemite Valley.[aside postID=news_12050945 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-1_qed.jpg']In fact, the park changed its flag-flying \u003ca href=\"https://www.climbing.com/news/yosemite-bans-large-flags-on-el-cap-and-other-walls/\">policy \u003c/a>just one day after Joslin scaled the wall, banning large flags over 15 square feet in wilderness areas within the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hanging flags on El Capitan goes back decades,” they said, referring to a recent “\u003ca href=\"https://www.climbing.com/news/stop-the-genocide-banner-from-el-capitan/\">Stop the Genocide” flag\u003c/a> hung in 2024 and an upside-down\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/24/travel/upside-down-american-flag-firefall-yosemite\"> American flag\u003c/a> flown in February of this year, among many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, “we are the only group of people that have been prosecuted for hanging a flag.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joanna Citron Day, \u003ca href=\"https://peer.org/\">general counsel\u003c/a> at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a legal assistance group that plans to assist Joslin in pursuing reinstatement to their position, said Joslin’s firing was arbitrary and “politically motivated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SJ got fired for exercising their First Amendment right — period,” she said. “The message it sends is be scared and be quiet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LGBTQ+ advocates in the Bay Area condemned Joslin’s dismissal as part of the administration’s ongoing attacks on the trans community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pattiegonia.net/\">Pattie Gonia\u003c/a>, a drag queen and environmental activist, who was also involved in hanging the flag, defended Joslin, writing in a statement that their firing “is not just an attack on SJ, but a targeted move by the Trump administration to silence and punish anyone who practices free speech and dares to stand in defiance of the erasure of trans people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11643341\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11643341\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Some visitors to many parks, monuments and public lands were frustrated with spotty service caused by the government shutdown. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In fact, the park changed its flag-flying \u003ca href=\"https://www.climbing.com/news/yosemite-bans-large-flags-on-el-cap-and-other-walls/\">policy \u003c/a>just one day after Joslin scaled the wall, banning large flags over 15 square feet in wilderness areas within the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hanging flags on El Capitan goes back decades,” they said, referring to a recent “\u003ca href=\"https://www.climbing.com/news/stop-the-genocide-banner-from-el-capitan/\">Stop the Genocide” flag\u003c/a> hung in 2024 and an upside-down\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/24/travel/upside-down-american-flag-firefall-yosemite\"> American flag\u003c/a> flown in February of this year, among many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, “we are the only group of people that have been prosecuted for hanging a flag.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joanna Citron Day, \u003ca href=\"https://peer.org/\">general counsel\u003c/a> at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a legal assistance group that plans to assist Joslin in pursuing reinstatement to their position, said Joslin’s firing was arbitrary and “politically motivated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SJ got fired for exercising their First Amendment right — period,” she said. “The message it sends is be scared and be quiet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LGBTQ+ advocates in the Bay Area condemned Joslin’s dismissal as part of the administration’s ongoing attacks on the trans community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pattiegonia.net/\">Pattie Gonia\u003c/a>, a drag queen and environmental activist, who was also involved in hanging the flag, defended Joslin, writing in a statement that their firing “is not just an attack on SJ, but a targeted move by the Trump administration to silence and punish anyone who practices free speech and dares to stand in defiance of the erasure of trans people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11643341\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11643341\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Some visitors to many parks, monuments and public lands were frustrated with spotty service caused by the government shutdown. The El Capitan monolith in the Yosemite National Park in California.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1378\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut-800x574.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut-1020x732.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut-1180x847.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut-960x689.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut-240x172.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut-375x269.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut-520x373.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The El Capitan monolith in the Yosemite National Park in California. \u003ccite>(Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Villano, an organizer with \u003ca href=\"https://www.resistancerangers.org/\">Resistance Rangers\u003c/a>, an unofficial group of off-duty rangers advocating for public lands, said Joslin’s firing — along with a recently-revoked Department of Interior order that asked applicants to government jobs to answer questions about how they would help \u003ca href=\"https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2025/07/02/opm-backs-off-pro-trump-essay-requirement-for-job-applicants-00437027\">implement \u003c/a>Trump’s agenda — is part of a concerted effort to make what should be nonpartisan work ideological.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the Trump administration is trying to do is to make sure that those people who are on the ground in these bipartisan jobs are only supporting his agenda,” Villano said. “It seems as though what they’re slowly trying to do is weed out the people who disagree with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villano said the rules National Parks rangers must abide by while on duty are strict — they can’t so much as recommend their favorite restaurant to a visitor, for example — but those rules don’t apply when they are off-duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, she said, Joslin’s firing also goes against Trump’s early 2025 \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-freedom-of-speech-and-ending-federal-censorship/\">order \u003c/a>that bars federal officials from infringing upon free speech, creating “a really disturbing pattern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes you wonder what they mean when they say they want to bring back free speech,” Villano said. “To me, the harder they push back on that, the more it reminds us of how powerful it is when we speak out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joslin said they plan to pursue legal action to try to get their job back, and that their firing indicates that “the rules only apply to certain people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that my firing is a signal to other federal workers, especially NPS workers, that if you don’t comply with the ideology or the message that this current administration wants to send, then you will be eliminated,” they said. “I really care about Yosemite National Park and I want to continue caring for it in my role as a wildlife biologist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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However, he added that the recent hiring freeze and additional cuts in the proposed White House budget are unlike anything he has ever seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997996\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997996\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Upper Yosemite Fall is reflected in the Merced River at Swinging Bridge in Yosemite National Park on June 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Tracy Barbutes for The Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The poor park service is left in a catch-22,” he said. “They want to keep the parks, but they don’t have the human resources or the funding to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Neubacher and Galipeau are also members of the executive council of the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, a nonprofit organization made up of current and former parks employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the National Park Service said, “It’s not unusual or unique to this year for questions to come up about staffing or for the staffing needs to fluctuate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Neubacher, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1996198/what-you-should-know-about-visiting-national-parks-right-now\">situation on the ground\u003c/a> is much more severe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re saying everything’s fine, but I don’t think one person in the park service believes that. And all the people I talk to say it’s really traumatic and it’s in crisis mode,” Neubacher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that many park staffers are so demoralized on the job that they are “jumping ship” at the first opportunity.[aside postID=news_12029839 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Besides longer lines and dirtier facilities, Galipeau said reduced staffing could also endanger park visitors. Fewer staffers will mean longer emergency service response times and less preventive maintenance for roads and trails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have a bad experience or you get lost or you get hurt or maybe there’s a crime that occurs in the park, and there’s no one for you to turn to,” Galipeau said. “All this equates to a bad visitor experience, and a bad visitor experience means you won’t go back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of maintenance also spells trouble for the beginning of the peak wildfire season in California, and Neubacher said the parks are less prepared now than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only will there be fewer people to maintain vegetation and remove invasive species, but park rangers are also trained medics and firefighters. Galipeau said rangers are often sent to other regions or states to offer disaster aid; as a ranger at Everglades National Park in Florida, he was once sent to help fight fires in Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t have those people around, how are we going to help when there’s a catastrophe? We won’t be able to,” Galipeau said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the issues they anticipate, the former park service leaders said that people should still visit the parks this summer — if anything, to see for themselves how bad it is and offer their sympathies to staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Go there, enjoy your heritage. That’s why we set these places aside as a country,” Galipeau said. “But then if you see things that are broken, you need to go back home, you need to dial up your member of Congress or your senator and say, ‘You need to stop this.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Beth Rodden is considered rock climbing royalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has a reputation for conquering some of the most treacherous climbs in the world. In some cases, she was the first person ever to scale such heights. In a long list of accomplishments, a few things stand out. She was the first woman to complete two routes up \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/beth-rodden-mom-climber\">Yosemite’s notorious El Capitan\u003c/a>, with no gear helping to pull her up. She was also the first person ever to climb one of the hardest routes in Yosemite, a route called “Meltdown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAMuoSiEiM4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite her success, she was battling injuries, raging self-doubt and trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She chronicles these challenges and her extraordinary climbing career in her new memoir, \u003cem>A Light Through the Cracks: A Climber’s Story\u003c/em>. Beth spoke about it with The California Report Magazine’s Bianca Taylor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Below are excerpts from their conversation. For the full interview, listen to the audio at the top of this story on The California Report Magazine.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985174\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1292px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985174\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/1995-BETH-MISSION-CLIFFS-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1292\" height=\"1078\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/1995-BETH-MISSION-CLIFFS-KQED.jpg 1292w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/1995-BETH-MISSION-CLIFFS-KQED-800x667.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/1995-BETH-MISSION-CLIFFS-KQED-1020x851.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/1995-BETH-MISSION-CLIFFS-KQED-160x133.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1292px) 100vw, 1292px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rodden at Mission Cliffs in 1995. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Beth Rodden)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor: \u003c/strong>How did you first get hooked on rock climbing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Beth Rodden:\u003c/strong> My dad took me to the local climbing gym in Davis. He was a recreational climber. I loved the actual movement of climbing. I also really liked the social aspect of it, especially back then. It was much less structured. It was a much scrappier sport back then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was totally self-driven because there were no coaches or anything — and I really liked that. There [were] perhaps one or two women on each climbing team versus, you know, a dozen men or something like that. So it was kind of like this alternative sport, you know, it was this sport that was born out of pushing against social norms. [It was] much smaller, much harder for women to make their name in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1999, one of my climbing heroes, Lynn Hill, invited me on this climbing expedition, all female at the time, which [was] unheard of, to Madagascar to pioneer these first routes and these first ascents. And I feel like on that trip, I just thought, this is what I want to do. I’m all in from here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In your memoir, you describe harrowing moments during a climbing expedition in Kyrgyzstan in 2000, where you were kidnapped. What happened?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was 20, and at the time, I remember feeling so grown up. But looking back at it now, it’s like you’re just a child. I didn’t want to recount the entire ordeal [in my memoir], but I wanted to recount my personal experience and how it impacted me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DijlYnO8YL8&t=16s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honestly, I don’t think I could have done that until recently. I was very unaware and naive about how much it permeated my life and where it would bubble up. I think it took 20 years for me to be able to really dig back into those memories and those details and know how they impacted me personally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tell me about the significance of completing Meltdown.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, it had never been done before. So I was trying to do the first ascent of it, which means people had maybe tried it, but nobody had completed it. It was the hardest thing that I ever did. I had worked harder on it than any other climb. [But] I don’t think I appreciated how hard it was for me or the climbing world until it started to get repeated in the past handful of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a lot more pressure as a female to go out on a limb and say it’s the hardest crack climb in the world, which is traditionally a very male-dominated part of the sport. And so to say that here’s this, you know, small in stature, quiet female that’s now established one of the hardest crack climbs in the world was a pretty big statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s your experience as far as sexism and machismo within the climbing industry?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up in the ’90s and climbing in the early 2000s, it was a very big community of bravado and that type of thing. So, I just subscribed to that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985176\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985176\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/BETH-AND-HER-SON-IN-YOSEMITE-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/BETH-AND-HER-SON-IN-YOSEMITE-KQED.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/BETH-AND-HER-SON-IN-YOSEMITE-KQED-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/BETH-AND-HER-SON-IN-YOSEMITE-KQED-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/BETH-AND-HER-SON-IN-YOSEMITE-KQED-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/BETH-AND-HER-SON-IN-YOSEMITE-KQED-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rodden and her son in Yosemite. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Beth Rodden)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Do we still have a long ways to go? Yes, but it’s absolutely changing. And I see women and all genders being portrayed differently. I see all body types being portrayed differently, more equity in what’s being marketed and who’s being taken on to teams. So it’s definitely changing. But does that still exist? Absolutely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honestly, becoming a mother has helped because you’re just this person who now is trying to set an example for your child, but then also realizing that, wait, why did I subscribe to this when these aren’t necessarily great things? And why is this something that is so celebrated in the climbing community when we could be kinder to ourselves and each other?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Has climbing ever taken a toll on your mental health? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah. I don’t think it’s a good thing, honestly. It’s not good to totally deny all your feelings and all your emotions. In terms of physical things, I was just like this little processor, like, OK, well, that’s going to require a Band-Aid, not a big deal, or that’s going to be really dangerous, maybe a big deal. I was pretty good at thinking, that’s OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think what really started to build inside me was just trying to shove down and ignore the fear that it would constantly come up. I just assumed that I was always so close to death when I was climbing. You know, that the other shoe would drop, that something terrible would happen. Because it had happened. But it definitely filled my brain all the time, which was an interesting conflict because it was something that I loved, and it was something that I was really driven to do, but it was also something that totally terrified me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are your future climbing goals? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gosh, I feel like I definitely have a list that I always have there. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Beth Rodden is considered rock climbing royalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has a reputation for conquering some of the most treacherous climbs in the world. In some cases, she was the first person ever to scale such heights. In a long list of accomplishments, a few things stand out. She was the first woman to complete two routes up \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/beth-rodden-mom-climber\">Yosemite’s notorious El Capitan\u003c/a>, with no gear helping to pull her up. She was also the first person ever to climb one of the hardest routes in Yosemite, a route called “Meltdown.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/YAMuoSiEiM4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/YAMuoSiEiM4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>But despite her success, she was battling injuries, raging self-doubt and trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She chronicles these challenges and her extraordinary climbing career in her new memoir, \u003cem>A Light Through the Cracks: A Climber’s Story\u003c/em>. Beth spoke about it with The California Report Magazine’s Bianca Taylor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Below are excerpts from their conversation. For the full interview, listen to the audio at the top of this story on The California Report Magazine.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985174\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1292px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985174\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/1995-BETH-MISSION-CLIFFS-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1292\" height=\"1078\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/1995-BETH-MISSION-CLIFFS-KQED.jpg 1292w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/1995-BETH-MISSION-CLIFFS-KQED-800x667.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/1995-BETH-MISSION-CLIFFS-KQED-1020x851.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/1995-BETH-MISSION-CLIFFS-KQED-160x133.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1292px) 100vw, 1292px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rodden at Mission Cliffs in 1995. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Beth Rodden)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor: \u003c/strong>How did you first get hooked on rock climbing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Beth Rodden:\u003c/strong> My dad took me to the local climbing gym in Davis. He was a recreational climber. I loved the actual movement of climbing. I also really liked the social aspect of it, especially back then. It was much less structured. It was a much scrappier sport back then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was totally self-driven because there were no coaches or anything — and I really liked that. There [were] perhaps one or two women on each climbing team versus, you know, a dozen men or something like that. So it was kind of like this alternative sport, you know, it was this sport that was born out of pushing against social norms. [It was] much smaller, much harder for women to make their name in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1999, one of my climbing heroes, Lynn Hill, invited me on this climbing expedition, all female at the time, which [was] unheard of, to Madagascar to pioneer these first routes and these first ascents. And I feel like on that trip, I just thought, this is what I want to do. I’m all in from here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In your memoir, you describe harrowing moments during a climbing expedition in Kyrgyzstan in 2000, where you were kidnapped. What happened?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was 20, and at the time, I remember feeling so grown up. But looking back at it now, it’s like you’re just a child. I didn’t want to recount the entire ordeal [in my memoir], but I wanted to recount my personal experience and how it impacted me.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/DijlYnO8YL8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/DijlYnO8YL8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Honestly, I don’t think I could have done that until recently. I was very unaware and naive about how much it permeated my life and where it would bubble up. I think it took 20 years for me to be able to really dig back into those memories and those details and know how they impacted me personally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tell me about the significance of completing Meltdown.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, it had never been done before. So I was trying to do the first ascent of it, which means people had maybe tried it, but nobody had completed it. It was the hardest thing that I ever did. I had worked harder on it than any other climb. [But] I don’t think I appreciated how hard it was for me or the climbing world until it started to get repeated in the past handful of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a lot more pressure as a female to go out on a limb and say it’s the hardest crack climb in the world, which is traditionally a very male-dominated part of the sport. And so to say that here’s this, you know, small in stature, quiet female that’s now established one of the hardest crack climbs in the world was a pretty big statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s your experience as far as sexism and machismo within the climbing industry?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up in the ’90s and climbing in the early 2000s, it was a very big community of bravado and that type of thing. So, I just subscribed to that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985176\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985176\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/BETH-AND-HER-SON-IN-YOSEMITE-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/BETH-AND-HER-SON-IN-YOSEMITE-KQED.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/BETH-AND-HER-SON-IN-YOSEMITE-KQED-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/BETH-AND-HER-SON-IN-YOSEMITE-KQED-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/BETH-AND-HER-SON-IN-YOSEMITE-KQED-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/BETH-AND-HER-SON-IN-YOSEMITE-KQED-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rodden and her son in Yosemite. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Beth Rodden)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Do we still have a long ways to go? Yes, but it’s absolutely changing. And I see women and all genders being portrayed differently. I see all body types being portrayed differently, more equity in what’s being marketed and who’s being taken on to teams. So it’s definitely changing. But does that still exist? Absolutely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honestly, becoming a mother has helped because you’re just this person who now is trying to set an example for your child, but then also realizing that, wait, why did I subscribe to this when these aren’t necessarily great things? And why is this something that is so celebrated in the climbing community when we could be kinder to ourselves and each other?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Has climbing ever taken a toll on your mental health? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah. I don’t think it’s a good thing, honestly. It’s not good to totally deny all your feelings and all your emotions. In terms of physical things, I was just like this little processor, like, OK, well, that’s going to require a Band-Aid, not a big deal, or that’s going to be really dangerous, maybe a big deal. I was pretty good at thinking, that’s OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think what really started to build inside me was just trying to shove down and ignore the fear that it would constantly come up. I just assumed that I was always so close to death when I was climbing. You know, that the other shoe would drop, that something terrible would happen. Because it had happened. But it definitely filled my brain all the time, which was an interesting conflict because it was something that I loved, and it was something that I was really driven to do, but it was also something that totally terrified me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are your future climbing goals? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gosh, I feel like I definitely have a list that I always have there. And depending on what season it is, where I find myself in the world, what shape I’m in, then I’ll kind of pursue those. But I, thankfully, feel like I’m also at a point where if I never get to any of them, I’ll still be climbing. I’ll still be happy about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beth Rodden now lives with her family near Yosemite. Her memoir, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bethrodden.com/\">\u003cem>A Light Through the Cracks: A Climber’s Story,\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is available now. You can see her speak at \u003ca href=\"https://www.sausalitobooksbythebay.com/\">Sausalito Books by the Bay\u003c/a> on May 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The tribe is headquartered in Mariposa, California, a small town in the Sierra Nevada foothills close to the national park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really hit our community hard,” said Tara Fouch-Moore, a member of the Southern Sierra Miwuk’s tribal council. “We lost 127 households.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oak Fire destroyed much more than property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These super fires, they burn so hot,” said Jazzmyn Gegere Brochini, the tribe’s cultural resource preservation manager. “The Oak Fire disintegrated absolutely everything in its path.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate change brought on by the burning of fossil fuels has exacerbated, in part, the frequency and intensity of wildfires. Such catastrophic fires have decimated culturally significant sites and treasures, raising questions about how to best protect them for the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s something the Southern Sierra Miwuk have had to grapple with. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jazzmyn Gegere Brochini, cultural resource preservation manager, Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation\"]‘These super fires, they burn so hot. The Oak Fire disintegrated absolutely everything in its path.’[/pullquote] Gegere Brochini and Fouch-Moore said traditional plants like elderberry, deergrass and sedge used in native cooking, medicine and basket-making were destroyed by the Oak Fire — along with more permanent physical structures, such as the many milling stations carved into the bedrock by ancestors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Miwuk people have used these indentations in the rocks to grind traditional medicines and foods like acorns for thousands of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And to think that something that has withstood the test of time for millennia can be destroyed by one fire sweeping through, is a sign that something is changing, and something devastating is happening,” said Fouch-Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cultural heritage and climate change closely intertwined\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Indigenous communities have long understood cultural heritage encompasses more than historic buildings and museum artifacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s also the knowledge of how to find food and how to survive or make art,” said Fouch-Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s how we coexist with the land and manage it,” said Anthony Lerma, the Southern Sierra Miwuk’s stewardship coordinator. “It’s the native way of life.” [aside postID=news_11957413 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/TribalBuyBack01-1020x680.jpg'] The tribe’s firsthand experience of the impact of climate change on cultural traditions has been compounded by displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yosemite Valley used to be populated by Indigenous peoples, including the Southern Sierra Miwuk. “In the middle of the 1800s, as Yosemite started to be ‘discovered’ by settlers, they began to push the Indigenous tribes out,” said Cicely Muldoon, the superintendent of Yosemite National Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government designated the area as a national park in 1890 to protect its \u003cem>natural\u003c/em> treasures. But the \u003cem>cultural\u003c/em> ones didn’t fare so well: Muldoon said the few remaining Indigenous homes were razed in 1969.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was the last permanent occupation by the first people of Yosemite still living in their ancestral homelands,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Loss of place, loss of culture\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With the loss of their homelands came the loss of their cultural heritage, such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/21/904600242/managing-wildfire-through-cultural-burning\">long tradition of managing forest fires\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the first things the government outlawed was cultural burning,” said the Southern Sierra Miwuk’s Lerma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961890\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11961890 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1242099861-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A forest is left barren with charred tree trunks amid a gray clouded sky and burned earth.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1242099861-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1242099861-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1242099861-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1242099861-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1242099861-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1242099861-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1242099861-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A forest is left decimated by the Oak Fire near Mariposa, on July 24, 2022. More than 2,000 firefighters backed by 17 helicopters were deployed against the wildfire. \u003ccite>(David McNew/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State officials made this tribal practice of igniting small fires illegal in 1850. The years of fire suppression that followed have made wildfires worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Smokey the Bear’ all over the place,” said Fouch-Moore. “And now our forests are overgrown and in bad health. And they’re like, ‘Oh wait, maybe we should let the Indians do their thing.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, the National Park Service and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) have started to collaborate with Indigenous communities to return \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/13/902073784/california-teaming-up-with-native-american-tribes-to-prevent-wildfires\">traditional burning\u003c/a> to the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of local tribes have helped to set prescribed burns in Yosemite National Park, among other wooded areas. The process involves rubbing pieces of wood together to generate sparks instead of using modern drip torches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/8F5UgpE5szA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tribal representatives help us identify and protect important cultural sites during a wildfire,” said Gregg Bratcher, deputy chief of CAL FIRE’s prescribed fire program. The agency worked with the Southern Sierra Miwuk and other tribes on the cleanup effort after last year’s Oak Fire. “We work with them to ensure these sites are not damaged by fire-fighting or other equipment,” he said. [aside postID=news_11958011 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/CalMattersDelta01-1020x680.jpg'] Bratcher said his agency is trying to build trust with tribal communities. Gegere Brochini with the Miwuk Nation said she is glad the state’s fire department and other agencies are now actively engaging Indigenous people to clean up after wildfires burn through. She was involved in the cleanup effort after the Oak Fire. “I did a cultural resource spot check to make sure the remains of ancient village sites were protected from the dozers,” said Gegere Brochini. “Otherwise they doze everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tara Fouch-Moore said the removal of Indigenous peoples from their lands makes it hard for traditions like cultural burning to thrive because out of context, these practices lose their meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, we can share our songs despite climate change, and yes, we can learn how to process acorn,” she said. “But it needs to be whole and within the landscape to really, truly understand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation has been working for years with the National Park Service to rebuild \u003ca href=\"https://www.southernsierramiwuknation.org/wahhoga\">Wahhoga\u003c/a>, a village tribal ancestors once occupied in the Yosemite Valley. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4 p.m. Wednesday, July 19:\u003c/strong> Yosemite National Park officials announced today that the Tioga Road will open for the season this weekend. It’s a historically late opening — the latest since the park opened the route in July 1915 — after the snowiest winter on record. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yosemite ranger Steve Lyon said in an email that, following recent custom, the road will be opened to bicycles on Friday. That affords cyclists an opportunity to explore the sometimes narrow high-elevation road without having to deal with motor vehicles, which will get access at 8 a.m. Saturday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The winter’s heavy snow damaged the road in several places, and park officials are advising drivers to be ready for stretches of one-way traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the buildings along the Tioga corridor were wrecked or seriously damaged. While vault and portable toilets will be ready, the park says that there will be no stores open and no food, water or fuel available along the road. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/YosemiteNPS/status/1681742579917008896\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before this year, the latest seasonal closure recorded on the Tioga Road was 1917, when the road opened on July 19. In several other years up through the late 1930s, the road opened as late as July 15. After 1938, the road never opened later than July 1. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 5:20 p.m. Thursday, July 13:\u003c/b> Yosemite National Park’s Tioga Road remains closed, with crews working to repair high-country facilities that suffered massive damage during the historic snows last winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish I had something good to tell you, but it’s a mess up there,” Steve Lyon, a park ranger, told KQED Thursday. He said virtually all of the structures along the Tioga corridor were affected, with 62% being seriously damaged or destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A ranger station at Tuolumne Meadows is being torn down because it was wrecked by heavy snow loads. Staff housing and other structures in the area also need repairs. The lack of housing for rangers and other staff is adding to the long-delayed road opening, which is within a few days of being the latest since the route first opened to motor vehicles in 1915.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The road itself is OK,” Lyon said. “But we can’t open it until we can have rangers up there patrolling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there is some good news for those who are seeking access to areas near Tioga Pass but outside the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday afternoon, Caltrans opened Highway 120 between the town of Lee Vining and the national park gate at the pass’s 9,945-foot summit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While travelers still won’t be able to enter the park, the 12-mile stretch of highway through Lee Vining Canyon will now provide access to campgrounds and trails that have remained inaccessible while Caltrans worked to removed snow and rocks and to repair damage along the route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Caltrans9/status/1679623086705111041\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, July 10:\u003c/strong> One of the rites of California’s late spring/early summer is the opening of the Tioga Road, the route across Yosemite’s high country and one treasured for its access to some of the national park’s best hiking and camping and its most memorable views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, it’s a rite long delayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time the Tioga Road remained closed this late in the season was 1922, when the highway opened July 10. The only later openings occurred in 1917, on July 19, and in 1916 and 1921 — on July 15 both years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s long closure is the direct result of this winter’s historic snowfall, which not only buried the road in snow and ice but caused serious damage to parts of the 46-mile route and adjacent facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#tiogapassopen\">How to travel to Yosemite avoiding the Tioga Pass\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“Everyone’s been talking about what a crazy, epic winter we’ve had and just the monumental task of getting that road open,” said Steve Lyon, a Yosemite National Park ranger, earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That work has involved months of plowing with tracked vehicles, bulldozers, rotary plows and other heavy equipment. As it does every year, it has also involved trying to clear the more than two dozen segments of the road that are prone to avalanches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.seattletimes.com/life/travel/blasting-winter-away-at-yosemites-high-country-tioga-road/\">The best known and perhaps most dangerous of those avalanche zones\u003c/a> is adjacent to Olmsted Point, a site famed for its spectacular views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyon said crews have cleared that section of road but that avalanche damage to one lane there will require traffic control regulated by temporary stoplights when the road opens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyon said part of the delay in lifting travel restrictions in the area is the need to assess and repair roadside restrooms, staff housing and other facilities damaged during the winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a fair number of buildings up there,” Lyon said. “Almost all of them have taken some damage, and some of them are just completely destroyed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of all the assessment and repair work, the park says it still cannot say when the road will open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955250\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 3340px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955250\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-07-at-6.10.34-PM.png\" alt=\"Bulldozers and snowplows clearing snow from mountain road.\" width=\"3340\" height=\"1874\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-07-at-6.10.34-PM.png 3340w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-07-at-6.10.34-PM-800x449.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-07-at-6.10.34-PM-1020x572.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-07-at-6.10.34-PM-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-07-at-6.10.34-PM-1536x862.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-07-at-6.10.34-PM-2048x1149.png 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-07-at-6.10.34-PM-1920x1077.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3340px) 100vw, 3340px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a screenshot from a National Park Service video, a bulldozer and snowplow work to clear the Tioga Road, Yosemite National Park’s high-country route, on June 21, 2023. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Yosemite National Park)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Repair work is also continuing to the east of Tioga Pass along the road’s state-owned continuation, Highway 120. Caltrans crews finished clearing snow from that steep, winding section weeks ago and have been busy ever since removing boulders deposited on the roadway during the winter and restoring roadside berms that help contain rockfalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Andriessen, spokesperson for Caltrans District 9, said in an email Friday that rock clearing continues in an area called Blue Slide, about midway along Highway 120 between the pass and the town of Lee Vining. Once that last piece of rock work is done, Andriessen said, crews will begin repairing and replacing guardrails damaged or destroyed over the winter. He said that job will take about five business days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although in the past Caltrans has worked with park officials to coordinate the opening of the road, so that the state and Yosemite sections all become accessible the same day, Andriessen said that won’t necessarily be the case this year.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Steve Lyon, Yosemite National Park ranger\"]‘Everyone’s been talking about what a crazy, epic winter we’ve had and just the monumental task of getting that road open.’[/pullquote]“We will open our gate once our preparations and repairs are complete, even if the park entrance remains closed,” he said. “This will give summer travelers access to campgrounds and lakes in the Inyo National Forest that are outside” the national park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of its elevation and the heavy snowfall along the route — generally, the higher you go in the Sierra, the more snow you get when storms blow in — the Tioga Road is often the first of California’s mountain highways closed every fall and the last to open once the mountains emerge from winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, officials shut down the road on Halloween in anticipation of the season’s first major snowfall. The closure came a little earlier than it has in most recent years, according to records kept by Yosemite National Park and the Mono Lake Committee, but was far from unusual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the winter came on in earnest, with two series of storms that were not only unusual but history-making, dropping record amounts of snow nearly the entire length of the Sierra. When the storms finally abated this spring, the country along the Tioga Road had received something like 240% of its average snowfall, leaving the route buried under a deeper layer of snow — and in some places ice, rocks and trees — than any living person has ever seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The road was first developed in the early 1880s as a route for mining operations near Tioga Pass. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4 p.m. Wednesday, July 19:\u003c/strong> Yosemite National Park officials announced today that the Tioga Road will open for the season this weekend. It’s a historically late opening — the latest since the park opened the route in July 1915 — after the snowiest winter on record. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yosemite ranger Steve Lyon said in an email that, following recent custom, the road will be opened to bicycles on Friday. That affords cyclists an opportunity to explore the sometimes narrow high-elevation road without having to deal with motor vehicles, which will get access at 8 a.m. Saturday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The winter’s heavy snow damaged the road in several places, and park officials are advising drivers to be ready for stretches of one-way traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the buildings along the Tioga corridor were wrecked or seriously damaged. While vault and portable toilets will be ready, the park says that there will be no stores open and no food, water or fuel available along the road. \u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Before this year, the latest seasonal closure recorded on the Tioga Road was 1917, when the road opened on July 19. In several other years up through the late 1930s, the road opened as late as July 15. After 1938, the road never opened later than July 1. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 5:20 p.m. Thursday, July 13:\u003c/b> Yosemite National Park’s Tioga Road remains closed, with crews working to repair high-country facilities that suffered massive damage during the historic snows last winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish I had something good to tell you, but it’s a mess up there,” Steve Lyon, a park ranger, told KQED Thursday. He said virtually all of the structures along the Tioga corridor were affected, with 62% being seriously damaged or destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A ranger station at Tuolumne Meadows is being torn down because it was wrecked by heavy snow loads. Staff housing and other structures in the area also need repairs. The lack of housing for rangers and other staff is adding to the long-delayed road opening, which is within a few days of being the latest since the route first opened to motor vehicles in 1915.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The road itself is OK,” Lyon said. “But we can’t open it until we can have rangers up there patrolling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there is some good news for those who are seeking access to areas near Tioga Pass but outside the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday afternoon, Caltrans opened Highway 120 between the town of Lee Vining and the national park gate at the pass’s 9,945-foot summit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While travelers still won’t be able to enter the park, the 12-mile stretch of highway through Lee Vining Canyon will now provide access to campgrounds and trails that have remained inaccessible while Caltrans worked to removed snow and rocks and to repair damage along the route.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, July 10:\u003c/strong> One of the rites of California’s late spring/early summer is the opening of the Tioga Road, the route across Yosemite’s high country and one treasured for its access to some of the national park’s best hiking and camping and its most memorable views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, it’s a rite long delayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time the Tioga Road remained closed this late in the season was 1922, when the highway opened July 10. The only later openings occurred in 1917, on July 19, and in 1916 and 1921 — on July 15 both years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s long closure is the direct result of this winter’s historic snowfall, which not only buried the road in snow and ice but caused serious damage to parts of the 46-mile route and adjacent facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#tiogapassopen\">How to travel to Yosemite avoiding the Tioga Pass\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“Everyone’s been talking about what a crazy, epic winter we’ve had and just the monumental task of getting that road open,” said Steve Lyon, a Yosemite National Park ranger, earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That work has involved months of plowing with tracked vehicles, bulldozers, rotary plows and other heavy equipment. As it does every year, it has also involved trying to clear the more than two dozen segments of the road that are prone to avalanches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.seattletimes.com/life/travel/blasting-winter-away-at-yosemites-high-country-tioga-road/\">The best known and perhaps most dangerous of those avalanche zones\u003c/a> is adjacent to Olmsted Point, a site famed for its spectacular views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyon said crews have cleared that section of road but that avalanche damage to one lane there will require traffic control regulated by temporary stoplights when the road opens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyon said part of the delay in lifting travel restrictions in the area is the need to assess and repair roadside restrooms, staff housing and other facilities damaged during the winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a fair number of buildings up there,” Lyon said. “Almost all of them have taken some damage, and some of them are just completely destroyed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of all the assessment and repair work, the park says it still cannot say when the road will open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955250\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 3340px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955250\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-07-at-6.10.34-PM.png\" alt=\"Bulldozers and snowplows clearing snow from mountain road.\" width=\"3340\" height=\"1874\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-07-at-6.10.34-PM.png 3340w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-07-at-6.10.34-PM-800x449.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-07-at-6.10.34-PM-1020x572.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-07-at-6.10.34-PM-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-07-at-6.10.34-PM-1536x862.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-07-at-6.10.34-PM-2048x1149.png 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-07-at-6.10.34-PM-1920x1077.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3340px) 100vw, 3340px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a screenshot from a National Park Service video, a bulldozer and snowplow work to clear the Tioga Road, Yosemite National Park’s high-country route, on June 21, 2023. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Yosemite National Park)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Repair work is also continuing to the east of Tioga Pass along the road’s state-owned continuation, Highway 120. 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She said she’s confident that the sprinkler system combined with previous prescribed burns is the best protection for the trees. “If we were to add the additional foil protection, that would actually create a baked potato effect on the tree, and so we’re not doing that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 1,600 people were evacuated, including a hotel, a campground and permanent residents. The Red Cross has set up a shelter in Mariposa, but Phillipe said most people who evacuated ended up not needing to go there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Folks coming into the park … just be aware that the air quality today is in the unhealthy range,” she said. “Our priorities remain: firefighters, public safety, the community of Wawona and the giant sequoias in the Mariposa Grove.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/YosemiteFire/status/1545975359341936641\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillipe also said there are crews and aerial resources, including tankers and helicopters. The fire was proving difficult to contain, with firefighters throwing “every tactic imaginable” at it, she said, adding that that included air drops of fire retardant as well as the planned use of bulldozers to create fire lines, a tactic that’s rarely used in a wilderness setting like Yosemite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bulldozers would primarily be used to put in fire lines to protect Wawona, Phillipe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/savetheredwoods/status/1545471237324804097\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though firefighters were facing hot and dry conditions, they didn’t have to contend with intense winds on Saturday, said Jeffrey Barlow, senior meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Hanford. Given the relatively small size of the fire and minimal winds, smoke impacts were not expected to stretch far beyond the park, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The giant sequoias, native in only about 70 groves spread along the western slope of California’s Sierra Nevada range, were once considered impervious to flames but have become increasingly vulnerable as wildfires fueled by a buildup of undergrowth from a century of fire suppression and drought exacerbated by climate change have become more intense and destructive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lightning-sparked wildfires over the past two years have killed up to a fifth of the estimated 75,000 large sequoias, which are the biggest trees by volume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1545805007835959296\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was no obvious natural spark for the fire that broke out Thursday next to the park’s Washburn Trail, Phillipe said. Smoke was reported by visitors walking in the grove that reopened in 2018 after a $40 million renovation that took three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire had grown from 700 acres on Saturday morning to 1,600 acres on Sunday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fierce windstorm ripped through the grove a year and a half ago and toppled 15 giant sequoias, along with countless other trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The downed trees, along with massive numbers of pines killed by bark beetles, provided ample fuel for the flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park has used prescribed burns to clear brush around the sequoias, which helps protect them if flames spread farther into the grove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, most evacuation orders were lifted Saturday in the Sierra foothills about 80 miles to the northwest of the Washburn Fire, where another fire broke out on July 4. The Electra Fire, which began near Jackson, was mostly contained, and only areas directly within the fire’s perimeter remained under evacuation orders, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far in 2022, over 35,000 wildfires have burned nearly 4.7 million acres in the U.S., according to the National Interagency Fire Center, well above average for both number of wildfires and acres burned.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Evacuations and closures\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Wawona Road (Highway 41) south of Yosemite West, and the Mariposa Grove, are closed until further notice. Wawona Road is also closed at the South Entrance north to Henness Ridge Road.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Yosemite West remains accessible via Wawona Road from the north (from Yosemite Valley). All other areas of Yosemite National Park are open.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Use Highways 140 or 120 to enter Yosemite. Expect smoky conditions within the park.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=17a559c2f1ff43269c76e49ca55aca60&extent=-13324689.9049%2C4498948.9321%2C-13308867.44%2C4524746.4291%2C102100\">A map of the evacuation area and current evacuation levels is available here.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evacuation shelter:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/i9C7GyZ3vqWmTPnu9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Life Christian Fellowship, 5089 Cole Road, Mariposa, CA 95338\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been corrected to fix inaccurate information from a park spokesperson and reflects that the tree trunks are not wrapped in protective foil.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Lakshmi Sarah contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Two brothers living in San Francisco led a group that set a record this month for the longest highline walked in California. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nylon line – about an inch or two wide and a few millimeters thick – stretched across 2,800 feet in Yosemite National Park, from Taft Point across gullies to an old tree on another outcropping nicknamed \"Your Mom.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stepping out onto the line presented stunning views — and a drop of some 1,600 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/moecheese2408/?hl=en\">Moises Monterrubio\u003c/a>, 26, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/daniel_monterrubio/?hl=en\">Daniel Monterrubio\u003c/a>, 23, led friends and collaborators who spent six days stringing the line across the complex terrain below, which involved rappelling from cliffs and hanging 1,000 feet in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The dangerous part was actually getting the line across, not walking the line itself,\" Daniel Monterrubio tells NPR's \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/moises-on-the-line-by-scott-oller-_custom-9d025160ef8ec018a0ceaad5076302d3475a1074-e1624492811674.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1372\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11879127\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moises Monterrubio walks the line. Highlining is different from walking a tightrope, with the line dipping down significantly. \u003ccite>(Scott Oller/Moises Monterrubio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Daniel was the first one to walk the line on June 10, followed by Moises. They each fell during their first tries, but they were wearing safety harnesses, as most highliners do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Highlining is different from walking a tightrope. It's a type of slacklining, so part of the challenge is to maintain your balance as the line dips and moves from side to side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/gopro-view-moises-monterrubio_wide-d3c508273635ef8b3bc17e6c345fe839afb80850-scaled-e1624492921951.jpe\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11879128\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view from Moises Monterrubio's GoPro camera as he walks across the line.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Moises Monterrubio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Others in the group took turns walking the gap over four days, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/culture/travel/article/Yosemite-highliners-claim-world-record-2-800-foot-16258778.php\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>. Moises Monterrubio and another group member, Eugen Cepoi, both were able to make it across without falling. The brothers say they got approval from the park to string up their line. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At its center, the Monterrubios' line dipped as much as 180 feet down. The dip makes it essentially an uphill climb once you reach halfway along the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at 2,800 feet long, it's almost three times as long as a previous longest line in Yosemite. 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That was two years ago, and the line stretched only about 100 feet. \"It's been a gap that we've talked about for a while,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not like we try to go for a record,\" Moises Monterrubio says. \"We just see something that could be turned into something beautiful, like a project. And then we just imagine a line across, and we don't think about records or anything. We just say, like, 'OK, this would be a cool project.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brothers say they one day hope to break the record highline length for the U.S. — some 3,200 feet. 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"content": "\u003cp>Every February, photographers and nature lovers alike flock to Yosemite National Park in the hope of glimpsing the famed \"firefall\": a natural phenomenon that makes Horsetail Fall on El Capitan appear like it's on fire at sunset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Yosemite's \"Firefall Week\" began Feb. 12 and lasts through Feb. 24, according to \u003ca href=\"#restrictions\">special viewing restrictions imposed by the park.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Photographer Aaron Meyers, who provides \u003ca href=\"https://blog.aaronmphotography.com/2021/01/15/horsetail-falls-2021-yosemite-national-park/\">Yosemite firefall photography advice and timings on his site\u003c/a>, predicts that sunset on \u003ca href=\"https://blog.aaronmphotography.com/2021/01/15/horsetail-falls-2021-yosemite-national-park/\">Sunday, Feb. 21\u003c/a> will be the optimum date to catch Horsetail Fall this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How Does the Yosemite Firefall Happen?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yosemite Horsetail Fall firefall is a rather \u003cem>particular\u003c/em> phenomenon — in order for the full \"lava flow\" effect to appear, conditions have to be perfect. Horsetail Fall itself, a small waterfall that usually only flows during winter, needs to actually have water in it. It's this water that glows orange when it's lit from behind by the setting sun. The firefall also requires a clear sky, because any haze or cloudiness affects the quality of the illusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/visualdavid/status/1362471683567742976\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, the hoped-for firefall actually \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/travel/story/2020-02-13/yosemites-natural-firefall-may-not-glow-this-year\">failed to fully materialize\u003c/a> because of imperfect conditions. On Feb. 11, the National Park Service warned of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcra.com/article/firefall-yosemite-valley-horsetail-fall-no-water-flow/30882971#\">\"little to no water\"\u003c/a> in Horsetail Fall ahead of the projected 2021 firefall, although that particular alert is no longer visible on \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/horsetailfall.htm\">Yosemite's firefall webpage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're thinking of trying your luck, keep your eye on \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/conditions.htm\">park conditions on Yosemite's website\u003c/a> and watch the weather forecast. And if conditions \u003cem>aren't\u003c/em> perfect to see a Yosemite firefall this year, at least there's plenty of other natural wonders to witness in Yosemite National Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to \u003ca href=\"#restrictions\">Yosemite's own restrictions within the park\u003c/a>, remember that the state of California's current COVID-19 travel recommendations ask that Californians \"\u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/travel/\">not travel more than 120 miles from their home\u003c/a> for non-essential purposes such as pleasure or recreation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you do travel, the state asks that you take appropriate COVID-19 safety precautions, including wearing a face covering, maintaining social distance of 6 feet from people who aren't in your household and frequent hand-washing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861072\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1966px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11861072\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Stacy-Yosemite2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1966\" height=\"1312\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Stacy-Yosemite2.jpg 1966w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Stacy-Yosemite2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Stacy-Yosemite2-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Stacy-Yosemite2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Stacy-Yosemite2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Stacy-Yosemite2-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1966px) 100vw, 1966px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yosemite's \"firefall\" in action this year \u003ccite>(Stacy Brand)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Making a Reservation for Yosemite Firefall 2021\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You can make a Yosemite National Park day reservation for $35 per car (National Park pass holders only pay a $2 reservation fee) through \u003ca id=\"https://www.recreation.gov/timed-entry/10086745|\" href=\"https://www.recreation.gov/timed-entry/10086745\">Recreation.gov\u003c/a>. Some things to know:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Day-use tickets become available two days before the reservation date, at 8 a.m. PT. (That means that if you want to visit on Sunday, Feb. 21, day-use tickets will go online at 8 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 19.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Have an account already made and be logged in, ready to make your reservation. The tickets go fast!\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If you weren't lucky, don't despair. Yosemite says that canceled reservations become available immediately on \u003ca id=\"https://www.recreation.gov/timed-entry/10086745|\" href=\"https://www.recreation.gov/timed-entry/10086745\">Recreation.gov\u003c/a>, so it's worth returning to see what might have become available since your last attempt\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>One reservation is needed per vehicle: It doesn't matter how many people are in the vehicle, but the reservation holder must be one of them, and have photo ID to enter the park\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>These day-use permits are valid for unlimited entries lasting seven days after you first enter. You don't need a day reservation if you have an existing reservation for camping, lodging or a vacation rental in Yosemite National Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.recreation.gov/timed-entry/10086745\">Make a day reservation for Yosemite National Park.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"restrictions\">\u003c/a>Know the Restrictions on Viewing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you're lucky enough to snag a reservation, you should know and plan for the restrictions that'll be in place within Yosemite National Park to limit crowding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To view Horsetail Fall, park officials say you'll have to park at Yosemite Falls and walk 1.5 miles each way to the viewing area near El Capitan Picnic Area. You're advised to bring warm clothes and a headlamp/flashlight for safety on the walk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your vehicle has a disability placard, you will be permitted to drive straight to El Capitan Picnic Area and park there. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/horsetailfall.htm\">Detailed instructions for accessing Horsetail Fall\u003c/a> can be found on \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/horsetailfall.htm\">Yosemite National Park's site\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yosemite National Park says these restrictions are in place owing to a sharp increase in visitors straining to get a glimpse of the firefall phenomenon. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>In 2020, the hoped-for firefall actually \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/travel/story/2020-02-13/yosemites-natural-firefall-may-not-glow-this-year\">failed to fully materialize\u003c/a> because of imperfect conditions. On Feb. 11, the National Park Service warned of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcra.com/article/firefall-yosemite-valley-horsetail-fall-no-water-flow/30882971#\">\"little to no water\"\u003c/a> in Horsetail Fall ahead of the projected 2021 firefall, although that particular alert is no longer visible on \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/horsetailfall.htm\">Yosemite's firefall webpage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're thinking of trying your luck, keep your eye on \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/conditions.htm\">park conditions on Yosemite's website\u003c/a> and watch the weather forecast. And if conditions \u003cem>aren't\u003c/em> perfect to see a Yosemite firefall this year, at least there's plenty of other natural wonders to witness in Yosemite National Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to \u003ca href=\"#restrictions\">Yosemite's own restrictions within the park\u003c/a>, remember that the state of California's current COVID-19 travel recommendations ask that Californians \"\u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/travel/\">not travel more than 120 miles from their home\u003c/a> for non-essential purposes such as pleasure or recreation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you do travel, the state asks that you take appropriate COVID-19 safety precautions, including wearing a face covering, maintaining social distance of 6 feet from people who aren't in your household and frequent hand-washing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861072\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1966px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11861072\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Stacy-Yosemite2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1966\" height=\"1312\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Stacy-Yosemite2.jpg 1966w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Stacy-Yosemite2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Stacy-Yosemite2-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Stacy-Yosemite2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Stacy-Yosemite2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Stacy-Yosemite2-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1966px) 100vw, 1966px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yosemite's \"firefall\" in action this year \u003ccite>(Stacy Brand)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Making a Reservation for Yosemite Firefall 2021\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You can make a Yosemite National Park day reservation for $35 per car (National Park pass holders only pay a $2 reservation fee) through \u003ca id=\"https://www.recreation.gov/timed-entry/10086745|\" href=\"https://www.recreation.gov/timed-entry/10086745\">Recreation.gov\u003c/a>. Some things to know:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Day-use tickets become available two days before the reservation date, at 8 a.m. PT. (That means that if you want to visit on Sunday, Feb. 21, day-use tickets will go online at 8 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 19.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Have an account already made and be logged in, ready to make your reservation. The tickets go fast!\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If you weren't lucky, don't despair. Yosemite says that canceled reservations become available immediately on \u003ca id=\"https://www.recreation.gov/timed-entry/10086745|\" href=\"https://www.recreation.gov/timed-entry/10086745\">Recreation.gov\u003c/a>, so it's worth returning to see what might have become available since your last attempt\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>One reservation is needed per vehicle: It doesn't matter how many people are in the vehicle, but the reservation holder must be one of them, and have photo ID to enter the park\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>These day-use permits are valid for unlimited entries lasting seven days after you first enter. You don't need a day reservation if you have an existing reservation for camping, lodging or a vacation rental in Yosemite National Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.recreation.gov/timed-entry/10086745\">Make a day reservation for Yosemite National Park.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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