| Moonrise Awaits your Camera |
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Award-winning local photographer John Senser is
leading another of his unique YA backcountry trips to
photograph the full moon rising from North Dome in
late June. As long as you have some backpacking
experience and you have a camera, this Outdoor
Adventure presents a rare chance to capture
something very few photographers ever will. A fairly
easy trail, two nights camped, and top-notch instruction
from a skilled professional. Come join us!
Go to
www.yose
mite.org/seminars or call us at 209/379-2321 to
learn
more.
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| Just Released: Off the Wall: Death inYosemite |
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Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite by Butch
Farabee and Michael Ghiglieri
Hardcover $36.95
Softcover $24.95
A drunk tourist falling off a 1,430-foot waterfall, a
marijuana-filled airplane crashing into a pristine high-
country lake and a Russian immigrant jumping off Half
Dome to free his soul are a sampling of the
compelling stories that fill a new book chronicling all
known fatalities in Yosemite National Park. The book's
co-authors, Michael Ghiglieri and Charles "Butch"
Farabee (a retired park ranger), have written other
books about national parks, including a similar book
about deaths at Grand Canyon National Park by
Ghiglieri. The intent of the Yosemite book is twofold: to
compile a history of the park's deaths while at the
same time entertaining people with real-life accounts
of fatal mistakes. Ghiglieri said he wanted to
intersperse some survival stories to keep the 608-
page book less predictable. "People's fascination with
death seems morbid, like cheap thrills," he said. "But
underlying that fascination is learning lessons that
could save lives."
From the Union Democrat article by Mike Morris
Visit our store and type Off the Wall into the search bar
for more information.
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| When is that Road Going to Open? |
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With summer just around the corner, the National Park
Service has recently activated their website for road
Tioga and Glacier Point Roads plowing progress. Visit
http://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/tioga.htm for
details
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| Where in the World is Beth? |
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YA’s Interim President Beth Pratt is currently
representing the Yosemite region on a Rotary
International professional exchange in Japan. This
winter she embraced the Japanese culture, learned to
speak Japanese, investing in state-of-the-art luggage,
and is now visiting many areas of Japan while giving
presentations to Rotary clubs, schools, and
businesses. During this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,
Beth says she “looks forward to sharing my passion
for Yosemite and my work, as well as learning from the
Japanese people.”
A published author, Beth is maintaining an
enlightening and entertaining web-based journal
called “Beth’s Excellent Japanese Adventure: My
Search for Good Sushi and Godzilla.” You can read her
updates at http://b
ethpratt.squarespace.com/journal/
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Memorial Announced for King Huber |
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N. King Huber, U.S. Geological Survey
Scientist Emeritus, Fellow of the Geological Society of
America, and recipient of the U.S. Department of the
Interior Meritorious Service Award, passed away in his
sleep February 24.
He had been battling cancer since last summer. King,
a Ph.D. graduate of Northwestern University, worked
for the USGS for 40 years. During that time and
throughout his 13-year "retirement" he produced a
series of classic geologic investigations. He was the
author of The Geologic Story of Yosemite National
Park, which has been reprinted many times, as
well
as the Yosemite National Park Geological Map.
He
worked actively on products related to his beloved
Yosemite up until the time of his death, just putting the
finishing touches on a new book, Geological
Ramblings in Yosemite, currently in press.
King's first introduction to the Sierra Nevada was in
June of 1955, when he and his wife drove up Lee
Vining Canyon over Tioga Pass and into Yosemite.
Having grown up in the relatively flat terrain of northern
Minnesota, mountains of any kind were new to him,
and little did he know that this magnificent mountain
range would define much the rest of his career and the
next 50 years of his life. King's long-time Sierra studies
were interrupted twice, once in 1959 to serve in the
Director's Office in USGS headquarters in Reston, VA,
and then again in 1966 when he began a four-year
project mapping the geology of Isle Royale National
Park in Lake Superior. In 1994, after 40 years with the
USGS, King formally retired with more than 60
significant scientific publications to his credit. He
continued to work another 13 years as a USGS
Scientist Emeritus producing more than a dozen new
publications, including both technical and popular
laymen's guides to geology.
Throughout his career, King understood the
importance of communicating the geologic story of the
many places he studied.
Bringing the geologic story of several national parks to
the public's attention, he wrote popular guides to the
geology of Isle Royale National Park, Devil's Postpile
National Monument, and Yosemite National Park.
YA Education Coordinator Pete Devine, who has
known
and worked with King for nearly twenty years,
considers King's departure a great loss for the park
and its visitors. "My wife and I visited King about a
week before he passed away. He was so pleased to
have finished his book - not for himself, but for the
public who will make use of it."
King is survived by his wife of 56 years, Nan,
their two sons, a sister and two grandchildren.
A
memorial service will be held on Friday, April 20 at 1:30
p.m in the courtyard patio of Building 2 at the USGS
Menlo Park Science Center, 345 Middlefield Road,
Menlo Park, Calif.
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