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Mike Gallagher Podcast
Join Prager, Gallagher on 'Stand With Israel Tour' This Fall
"A lot of good news. A lot of good things happening. We're going to Israel this fall. The stand with Israel tour is shaping up to be one of our best yet Dennis prager and I are going to take a group of listeners of the Holy Land October 25th. We're going to sail the Sea of Galilee. We're going to walk through the garden of Yosemite. We're going to see the garden tomb. It's a trip that will change your life. I'm not kidding you. This is such a big deal. October 25th through November 3rd. And you make the decisions about what level of hotel room you want to be in, you want a 5 star luxury hotel, you want little more moderate priced, more of a budget. The good people and inspiration tours will take good care of you. Come join us for more details, go to stand with Israel tour dot com, stand with Israel tour dot com. I want you to put this off. The window is going to close. And we've got a big group coming. It's going to be an incredible time. Stand with Israel tour dot com or call 855-565-5519. You can pick up the phone and call them directly 8 5 5 5 6 5 5 5 one 9.
KCBS All News
"yosemite" Discussed on KCBS All News
"Report. You don't need to be a backcountry expert to enjoy the majesty of Yosemite in the winter, with tire chains at the ready and a few extra items packed for winter conditions, you can enjoy the park in its least visited, but some consider its most dazzling and beautiful season. Now, have you ever seen San Francisco's water source? Well, hetch hetchy makes a great winter side trip whether permitting the famous reservoir enjoys one of the longest hiking seasons in Yosemite due to its relatively low elevation. The wapama falls trail is a 5 mile route, mostly along the shoreline of the reservoir that begins at o'shaughnessy dam. Or how about strapping on a pair of ice skates and gliding around the ice rink at curry village in the towering shadow of half dome. If you're not so stable on skates, well, snowshoeing around mirror Lake into tenaya canyon is a scenic activity that takes advantage of the relative winter solitude of this otherwise busy area. Badger pass that's another outing, whether you're up for the snowshoe trek to Dewey point or you enjoy skiing, boarding, or even tubing at this historic low key ski area, it's great for the kids. But you don't have to be athletic to enjoy the season, watching the snow fall from a comfy chair in the lobby of the iwane hotel is about as romantic as it sounds. A clear night at Yosemite brings stellar stargazing opportunities, you can even join a class in the valley, or capture your memories, head to the Ansel Adams gallery, sign up for a winter camera walk and make the most of this beautiful season in Yosemite Kim wonderly, case CBS. I'm from East Los Angeles. People always ask me, why would a famous actor like Danny Trejo do all his own stunts? Listen, that chainsaw. It's a fake. That car crash. It's a vague.
KCBS All News
"yosemite" Discussed on KCBS All News
"Represents the 120th homicide of the year and the city of Oakland. At the same time last year, we had a 134 homicides. A 44 year old male cafe owner was shot dead at 8 in the morning in the 1400 block of tenth street. Oakland fire department and paramedics responded to the scene and provided medical treatment, but unfortunately the victims succumb to the injuries and was pronounced to cease at the scene. The chief also reported yesterday about the death of a two year old toddler, who was killed in Oakland, and whose body was found in Napa county. This is a tragic case, this should not have happened. Like other cases this year, the chief pleaded for help in solving these crimes. Alice wortz, case CBS, authorities say a rock slide killed two people this week near the entrance to Yosemite National Park, the Maricopa County sheriff's office reports that the deaths occurred on Tuesday morning on el portel road, rockfall closed a portion of the road near a park entrance for several hours, but it was later reopened. In governor Newsom is making some things clear on his proposed price gouging penalty against the oil industry for its unexplained spike in gas prices in California. Newsom had a December meeting and the discussion took place after California faced record high gas prices of $6 42 cents a gallon nearly $3 above the national average. Meanwhile, the oil industry reached record high earnings, some companies reportedly doubled profits, but critics say the punishments could come at the expense of Californians, still dependent on the small number of oil refineries in the state to power their cars. Well, just ahead on KE CBS. I might wall why some drivers in San Francisco have a problem with the city's parking meters. There could be discrepancies. In case CBS News time 1208 traffic and weather together starting with a crash on the carquinas bridge, here's the latest traffic alert comes westbound cartilage bridge right around the middle of the crossing there to middle lanes are blocked in the children auto body collision camp, so that's got traffic backing up before the toll Plaza area, a counter commute fortunately, eastbound 80s already starting to slow through Vallejo and we've got more slowing and Fairfield, eastbound 80 now from before 12 east all the way past Manuel campos along the way right around Travis boulevard a crash there in the left lane just adding to the slowing, little better news in Oakland, westbound 24 at Broadway looks like they've got all the lanes reopened from an earlier overturned car. That's the good news. Bad news. It is still slow. Westbound 24 from wilder as you head through the call to cut tunnel and just continued slow traffic through Oakland on 24. In Fremont, northbound 8 80 before mission boulevard had a crash blocking, it has been moved off to the right shoulder so that's good. Try to get a bit slow from Dixon landing road. Highway 92, westbound just after two 81st reports of an injury crash there emergency crews around the way. It looks like Elaine's block just traffic is backing up onto northbound two 80. Your next traffic update is going to be at 1218 on the traffic leader quesadillas. Lots of clouds as scattered light rain rain a little bit heavier right now in the Santa Rosa area. We also have some scattered fog.
Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"yosemite" Discussed on Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"Fast paced time was the tioga road. Today, it's called the tag a road, but back then it was called the great Sierra wagon road, and it was a 56 mile road and built in a 130 days according to the record books. So Tasha about four to four and a half months. This is without all the modern heavy equipment that we would use to build roads today. What were they using to accomplish these things? They were using hand picks and shovels and wheelbarrows and blasting powder. So no mechanical drills, dynamite wasn't used for these roads. It was less powerful blasting powder. Lots of trees, lots of granite roots of big trees. They had to blast through some of the granite to build some of the road bed like the great Sierra wagon road. They built the road right by tonight Lake. It still goes by that Lake today. They had to build rock walls, which had to withstand a whole century of time. It still standing, these rock walls that support these roads. So it's pretty amazing that they did that in such a fast pace. I was watching a video where someone was pointing out the remnants of one of those walls and said, oh, there's an area in China where we find construction of Rockwell's exactly like, yeah, they have compared that. They've looked at the historic landscapers have looked at and said this dry rock wall construction work is similar to China. And a lot of the skills that they brought from China were used here in the American West to build the roads, the railroads, I mean, they did a lot. Of course. I brought agricultural techniques to make the central valley California what it is today before they came. It was very much a wetland, which is ecologically very, very important, but you couldn't get all the fruits and vegetables that we have today without channeling the water than Sacramento river and from building irrigation canals and ditches to make the land farmable. And so they were also essential in that, and that food that they grew was essential to these communities that were growing in the American West. So without their work, the fresh fruits and vegetables that we have today, I mean, the diet of the people back then might not have been as healthy. Do you know if they experienced much discrimination, even though during such essential work and then even the living conditions, like, you know, with the World Cup finishing up in Qatar, you know, I'm hearing the horrible way the workers who were imported were treated and all the deaths and stuff. And then I read the stories of the building of the railroad and how many Chinese laborers died in that. To what extent can you talk about both how they were treated, whether they're dealing with a lot of Chinese racism. And at the same time, the living conditions, what they were paid. I'd love to hear more. Well, unfortunately, there's not that much that I've found written about their experiences, but I've seen the payroll records that they were paid, you know, the ones that were hired by the hotels, like the water hotel, sent the hotel and used some evaluate many hotels throughout your semi valley. You could see during many decades from the late 1800s to the 1920s, most of the people on their staff were at Chinese names and their salaries were actually decent. They weren't like cut too far, but they had a lot of work to service all these visitors. So the head chefs were paid the most because they had to cook big meals for all their guests like IU, famous chef and Malone who worked there for 47 years was paid. I believe a hundred or a $125 a month, which is pretty good. And all of them had bored with the hotel owners, so of course the board was taken out of their monthly salary. So in Moana, there was a Chinese bunkhouse where there was about 20 Chinese workers for the one hotel and there was an area in Yosemite valley called Chinese quarters, which is where a lot of the Chinese workers also live so they lived together in communities because they shared similar eating habits and food preferences and language. So there was a Chinese quarters and Aryan semi valley that was where most of the Chinese lived. The stories I hear of them, I haven't heard too many of real racism or discrimination. I'm sure there were really hard. They had to earn their money, but they were also records and memoirs of some of the kids that grew up in families that grew up in Yosemite like at the Warren hotel or other hotels and they have positive recollections of the Chinese coming every spring because that was tourist season from spring to fall and the winter a lot of the Chinese left and worked in Merced or other towns or communities outside the park that were warmer and in the winter months it was like a seasonal worker. They would come in the spring and work through the fall and then leave for the winter. And they were welcomed, you know, they brought gifts to the kids. They brought Chinese fans. They brought tea sets. So in that sense, you feel like there was like this positive connection, even the hotel owners and momona made sure they had a house for all the Chinese when they were let go and a new management took over 1932, but like 33 was their last year. So they were helped for one more year. And then when they were let go all the Chinese staff and the hotel, the family that owned the hotel, who had hired these 20 workers, had a home for them in Merced, and would attend the funeral of all you and other important members. So that's some of the stories,
AP News Radio
Winter storm barrels into Sierra Nevada, prompting avalanche warning
"A powerful Sierra Nevada winter storm prompts back country avalanche warnings, closes a Lake Tahoe highway and knocks out power to some California customers. A 250 mile stretch of the Sierra from north of Reno to south of Yosemite National Park is under a winter storm warning with as much as four feet of snow expected in the upper elevations around Lake Tahoe and a flood advisory along the California coast from Sacramento to San Francisco. Mammoth mountain ski representative Lauren Burke says all the snow is a blessing for business. Gears and riders have been ecstatic with how good it's been out there. We've been able to open more
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Ray Richardson: Bonny Eagle HS Teaches Porn to Students
"I have come to November. I will have done the morning show for 19 years. I had never had a more uncomfortable 30 minutes than I did this morning at 7 30 to 8 a.m. eastern. And I will tell you, I've been praying a lot about how to handle this, thankfully I was in charge yesterday morning and our pastor really came through so clearly. So what's happening here is yet another debatable point in our society should pornography be a part of the public education. And I don't know how that became a debatable point in our society. The book called gender queer on Amazon. It says clearly 18 years plus, they recognize this is a book for adults, doctor children. And I don't care how old the child is, but they're in public school. They were a child. There's someone's child. And a lot of the stuff goes on Todd because parents don't know. So I'll admit the truth. I dropped the ball on this, there's so many things going on. When this first came to my attention, I didn't get involved with it because, you know, there's only 24 hours in the day. And I'm usually awake for 20 of them. And I just didn't have time, but somebody sent me excerpts to the book last Friday. And I was appalled, and I won't say what I saw because I can't think of a flight way to do it. I warned my audience for 90 minutes this morning that I was going to graphically tell them what it was saying. In this book. And so what they did was they created cartoons, but they're cartoons of people. They're not Bugs Bunny, or Yosemite Sam. These are cartoons of people engaging in very graphic sexual gratification. I think that's a polite way to say it. Is that fair?
Bloomberg Radio New York
"yosemite" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Schumer is proposing adding billions of dollars to the budget for the program. After it had to stop taking applications because it was so oversubscribed. Denise Pellegrini Bloomberg radio. A destructive wildfire near Yosemite National Park has burned out of control through Tinder dry forests and has grown into one of California's biggest blazes of the year. It's forcing thousands of residents to flee a remote mountain communities. Sheriff Jeremy breeze says the fight is far from over. There is hot ass hot trees still stuff throwing stuff over the line, causing us concerns. In 2000 firefighters battling the oak creek fire facing tough conditions, including steep terrains sweltering temperatures and low humidity. Donald Trump is coming back to Washington as Republican rivals maneuver for a possible primary challenge of lawmakers probe his culpability for the January 6th insurrection. The former president will deliver a keynote speech yesterday tomorrow at the America first agenda summit, a conservative conference. A live stream of a church service in New York was interrupted Sunday morning by a robbery. Three gun toting thieves entered the leaders of tomorrow international ministries in Brooklyn, demanding valuables from the bishop, Lamar Whitehead. You know, it took my watch, took my jury, took my bishop's ring, took my wedding band, and then they took my bishop's cross. The bishop says the thieves drove away, a drove away in a white Mercedes. New York City's ranking 93rd in the U.S. for public bathrooms per CAPiTA. And now there's a bill aimed at opening more public bathrooms. It has the support to pass the city council by the end of September. The effort comes after widespread shutdowns during the early days of the pandemic, made it even tougher to find a restroom. The MTA, for instance, shuttered all 76 toilets in the subway system. Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. I'm John Tucker. This is Bloomberg Nathan. Thank you, John. Almost 5, ten on Wall Street time for the Bloomberg sports update. Good morning John Stan shower. Good morning, Nathan. Aaron judge, Peter Lonzo, the two New York City sluggers they've got the two most runs batted in the majors and they'll be facing off tomorrow, Wednesday, a brief subway series
AP News Radio
Thousands ordered to flee California wildfire near Yosemite
"More than 6000 residents have been ordered to evacuate a fast moving California wildfire near Yosemite National Park The oak fire broke out Friday and exploded overnight to more than 6000 acres by Saturday morning with 0% containment says Cal fires Natasha felts We had a dangerous rate of spread due to dry winds heavy fuel load She says dead trees killed by bark beetles spread the fire quickly so far at least ten structures have burned and the high heat is making it hard on firefighters Meanwhile the washburn fire that was threatening those giant Sequoia trees in Yosemite is roughly 80% contained says the national park services Kevin Sweeney Not a single giant Sequoia in the mariposa grove was killed during the fire I'm Julie
KOMO
"yosemite" Discussed on KOMO
"10% today. After prominent analysts from Wedbush downgraded the online real estate services company. Redfin stock closed at 8 48 per share and has lost 78% of its value since the start of the year. Tech stocks got slammed today with the NASDAQ falling 262 points. The Dow fell 164 points to close at 31,173 and the S&P 500 lost 45. This is rob Smith with northwest news radio. Firefighters in California are working to steer the growing washburn fire away from Yosemite National Park's famous trees. Nika maghan is reports. U.S. forest services Stanley berkowitz says firefighters are proactively protecting thousand year old giant sequoias through a special sprinkler system. Into the hoses that feed the sprinklers in the sprinklers sit up about three, four feet high. There are those typical sprinklers that encircles. The fire nearly doubled in size over the weekend and is charred nearly 2400 acres, containment is at 25%. Evacuations in Wuhan remain in place. No structures have been destroyed or damaged. The blaze erupted July 7th near the washburn trail near mariposa grove. Neek and the galas, NBC News radio. People in California are now cutting back on water use, but not at the levels requested by the state. Jack cronin has more. After increasing water use in the first four months of the year, California residents have cut back on water now by 3% in May and 8% in June, but the Sacramento bee says it's still below the 15% requested by the governor a year ago as the state battles a third season with the droughts. There are currently no statewide mandatory rations like the previous drought in California, but some local agencies are putting rules in place, including the metropolitan water district limiting outdoor watering to one day a week in parts of LA, Ventura and San Bernardino counties, the city of Los Angeles is limited outdoor watering to two days a week. The city of San Diego is at three. I'm Jack cronin. Northwest news radio traffic from the dubin law group traffic center. All right, we'll start you out in clallam county out toward elwa, southbound one O one and Olympic Hot Springs road in accident blocks your southbound lane traffic stacking up in both directions passed in through the scene in the mount baker
KOMO
"yosemite" Discussed on KOMO
"Top local stories in just a moment, but first let's check in with ABC News live from New York. It is 6 o'clock. From ABC News, Jean chuck sievertson Cruz and full gear and rough terrain where it's about 90° without a wildfire are making progress against a fire threatening Yosemite National Park, ABC's Alex stone. Our biggest concern the ancient giant Sequoia trees inside Yosemite so far they are safe. Firefighters set up sprinklers to put water on them. Robbie Johnson with incident commands as efforts are working. The fire did get into the grove a little bit. And it didn't get much further. Containment around the whole fire has jumped to 25% still out of control, but firefighters are making progress. Alex stone, EBC news. Gasoline prices continue to drop significantly ten cents on national average two weeks ago, another 13 cents this past week, says the energy department to an average of four 65 a gallon. What's supposed to be an official reminder of how we got here, price wise, don't blame the president for inflation, says White House press secretary karine Jean Pierre. We got here with the, with the increase of gas prices and food prices because of mister Putin's war in Ukraine. But economists say that's only part of the reason. Others include pandemic created supply chain issues. And companies slow to recover full production after two years of very little demand. Andy field ABC News Washington. And as far as how he got here, period, the first images from farther out into space
AP News Radio
Yosemite wildfire threatens grove of iconic sequoia trees
"As a wildfire grows in Yosemite National Park with a evacuations underway crews fight to save the iconic Sequoia trees including the 3000 year old grizzly giant The blaze doubled in size over the weekend spreading to the mariposa grove but Yosemite fire information's Nancy philippi says they're using a sprinkler system to try and keep the flames off the famous giant Sequoia trees Their flames in the grove definitely but we are taking every precaution to save those giant and especially high focus on those named trees She says campers and residents near the fire were evacuated but the rest of the huge California park is open Meanwhile national weather service meteorologist Jeff Barlow says heat will become a factor in fighting the fire Here in the San Joaquin valley we'll see temperatures above a 100° widespread I'm Julie Walker
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"yosemite" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"Best national parks. One thing that I have noticed in more recent years. When we visit wild places, we tend to see the signs that say wild animals and things like that. And most of us are smart about avoiding them. But I think that it's really worth mentioning that the entire park really has black bears. And people want to get close to take pictures, which is not smart, and I'm not going to lecture that. But a lot of people like bringing food and leaving food out so that they can lure bears to get closer for the gram. And things like that. And so the problem is with that is that then bears learn to associate people with food and they get closer and then what happens is the bears get in trouble. They either get hit by speeding cars in the park or they start to get more rambunctious around people and around dumpsters and then they either get relocated or shot. So I think that's something that I just notice a lot. I have seen people get really excited about getting close to animals that they shouldn't want to get close to. Yeah, no, once you're bringing food, you're doing all kinds of stupid there because it's not good for you and it's not good for the bear. Yeah. So it actually we mentioned mammoth lakes and mammoth if you were interested in seeing bears, there's a fascinating program in mammoth where they've learned to live alongside the bears. They learned that if they don't try and drive the bears out of town, if they basically manage the behavior of the bears so that they behave in a fashion that is considered acceptable, that those will keep the wild bears. These bears have become sort of habituated, and so I guess it's pretty standard in town to see kids lining up for the school bus and there's a bear walking by nearby and nobody paying any attention because they're just used to having bears in the area. The black bears, again, the black bear being the only beer. Now in the U.S., but fascinating program that is going on there in mammoth lakes. Wow, that's awesome. I didn't know that. Yeah, I don't know if it's actually, I say it's going on. I was there ten years ago or so with a society of American travel writers program. So I don't know if it's still going on, but I hope that it is because it was a great program that was ahead of its time, I think. Jill Robinson, danger Joe Robinson, if you were standing in the prettiest spot in Yosemite. Where would you be standing on what would you be looking.
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"yosemite" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"Train state park and I'm drawing a blank on the name, the rail town, 1897 state park. And then Columbia state park state historic park there is the remains of an old west town, basically a mining town that has been preserved and great place if you're a history buff. And there's all sorts of other wonderful things in that area. There's apple farms and a couple of wineries and some recreational lakes and things like that. So the tuolumne county area is on another wonderful spot to visit on the way in. There's one other opportunity, but you really do need to have the time. So if you're trying to combine some national parks near the Yosemite southern gateway, so out through wawona, you can, if you can road trip, I think it's about a 160 miles south to Sequoia and kings canyon national parks that also has some of the world's tallest trees and you get even more high Sierra experience. Well, it has the world's biggest trees. Sorry, biggest, not tallest. You're right. The tall trees would be up in redwood national park, and these are among the tallest, but the tallest ones are up up that way, but these are the largest like the general Sherman in the general grant tree are some of the largest living things. So they're pretty spectacular. The other thing that I haven't done and I don't know if you've done it down in between the parks in between Sequoia and kings canyon and Yosemite is the Sierra Vista scenic byway. So it's about a hundred mile high country road that runs through the sierras there with some amazing vistas. We've got an article on it on the website, but I have not personally done it in it is on my list. I have not done it either, so I'm no help there. Excellent. What else can we tell people about heading up here to the sierras? We're talking about an area that is in good traffic what four hours from the Bay Area. San Francisco Bay Area? Yeah, in good traffic that's a fair assessment. I think I have made it there even shorter in no traffic, but on a Friday afternoon is not when you're going to find, for instance, no traffic. At another hour or an hour and a half. Another thing for people to think, especially if you are flying closest airport is Fresno, Yosemite international airport. And Amtrak and Greyhound also travel nearish to the park, and then you can switch to the Yosemite regional transport system, which is called yards..
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"yosemite" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"Okay, yeah, I can't remember where they were called it. It makes me think of that, although, of course, in mono Lake, it's all really white and you don't have those crazy colors that come with grocery store stuff. But it's just really haunting any time of day, but the view really at dusk or dawn is just crazy and beautiful. But it's also just weirdly beautiful when the sky is super dark and the tufa towers stand up, stand out against the sky. And then from there you would go south of mono Lake for a drive along the June Lake loop, which I really like in fall because it's got some quaking Aspen about there that just are starting to turn yellow. But then there's also, I think it's a seasonal thing to visit doubles post pile. I feel like it summer, well, I know for sure that there's a seasonal shuttle in summer that you can get from the ski town of mammoth lakes to visit devil's postpile national monument. And so it's got a stack of these perfectly geometric basalt columns, which is one of the reminders that this area has had ancient volcanic history. Well, and you mentioned mammoth lakes a popular outdoor resort both skiing and in the summer mountain bikes in such in the same places. Exactly. The only challenge is that if you're in Yosemite in the winter, you can not go out. It is closed. So if you want to combine Yosemite and mammoth in winter, unfortunately, you have to go around. It's a long, long drive. Yeah, that's not a combination that works very well. No, the other place that I would say of the east end of the park and I love the suggestion of mono Lake because even just telling people they need to get to mono Lake means they have to drive all the way through that northern tuolumne Meadows area and it's just a beautiful drive. It's just a gorgeous gorgeous place that a lot of people don't see and should. But also one of my favorite state parks is Bodhi, the ghost town of the old mining town just north of mono Lake..
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"yosemite" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"There's also, I mean, Nevada falls, vernal falls. Those are also other really notorious valley waterfalls that people love. Well, in that's a pair of waterfalls that people can do, you know, I sort of feel like the first one my grandmother could do and the second one takes a little more effort. Yeah, well, vernal fall is the one that's closer to the happy aisles area. Yeah, the parking lot, exactly. Yeah, and then you have to go through vernal to get to Nevada. Unless you're on the John Muir trail, which skips vernal falls is actually cuts along them or said river in little Yosemite valley skirts Nevada fall goes around to Clark point skipping getting close to vernal and then cuts back in a little bit and then goes down to the valley floor. Okay. One fall that people like to say is hidden and I think it's just that you need to know to look there. Especially if you're coming in on glacier point road, it'll show up on your right hand side as you're entering towards glacier point is silhouette fall and that's a big favorite of a lot of people. Okay. And then also as you're going towards glacier point on the left would be sentinel fall. Right. Not to get off of the falls for a second, but as I just mentioned glacier point, which is a big feature for people, the road to glacier point is closed. Through this year, it will reopen in 2023, although not until probably late spring and even then it will probably be open only in windows of time at first. From what point is it close? Because isn't that there's the ski ridge, a ski area up there as well. So it's closed to there as well, or. It's closed. I don't know exactly the spot where they closed them. Okay. But normally, it's closed November to May..
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"yosemite" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"Anything else in your hike list you wanted to talk about other ways will move on to your next category. So my next category is kind of water based. You might not think that you can do a lot of rafting or kayaking within the area of the park, but you can. The Merced river, the power of the Merced river really, is kind of diluted as it gets along the valley floor. So it can at times be a nice little lazy river. There are places that you can swim in the river and take a dip. There are designated beaches where the park service has determined that within periods of time that it's safe to get in there. You can also enjoy a float. You can bring your own raft or rent one at one of the activity kiosks in curry and Yosemite villages. Also, I think you can rent rafts at the awani hotel or Yosemite valley lodge as well. Okay. And then if you've got a kayak or you're renting a kayak from an outfitter outside the park, you I think most of the lakes in the park definitely not hetch hetchy, but I think most of the rest do open to paddlers as long as you have your personal flotation device with you. Okay. And then fishing, you can fish, wow, just about anybody of water and Yosemite you can fish in. They've got non native trout among other species, lakes are open to year round fishing, but casting on streams and rivers is only allowed from probably around late April to about mid November and you do have to have a fishing license. Okay. And then one of the things I mentioned earlier about the reservation system and trying to avoid having to reserve by either coming in earlier staying late, one of the benefits to staying late. If you're not sleeping in the park by camping or staying in one of the lodges, coming in late is a really great time, first of all, to avoid all the people. But also just spending some evening hours in the valley, it just gives you this feeling of like a big dark blanket being pulled over. And when it's a clear night and you look up, you can see the universe. And it's not the only spot in the park, of course, any lakeside or peak top spot will give you the same incredible show, but I think a lot of people are starting to pay more attention to nighttime in national parks, especially the ones where you have really great dark sky viewing. Right. And I don't know if there are any ranger programs that there used to be when I was a kid that will help you find the constellations or things like that, but that would be something to check. So the pandemic has kind of trashed ranger programs, but they are slowly starting to come back. And the really the best way to find out beforehand is through the NPS Yosemite site, they list all the events and activities, or when you're in the park, certainly any of the ranger headquarters will have information. They have, I think, like a quarterly or biannual little schedule and newspaper that you can get when you get into the park to see what's going on. Okay. I think that was fishing. Did you have another category? I think my categories. I mean, there are a lot of categories, but I think that's a pretty solid stretch of opportunities..
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"yosemite" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"Lesser known hikes there, though, are gaylor lakes, which are about two miles and Elizabeth Lake, which is just under 5 miles in both of those are moderate hikes. The trails around hetch hetchy reservoir are even less traveled, the most popular of them is the moderate trail along the shoreline to catch the spray from what Palma falls and to alula falls. But there's just like it's a crazy list of hikes in the valley and the surrounding park. And I feel like we should do a little explanation of a tuolumne Meadows and hedge hetchy because growing up in California it's easy for us to assume that everybody knows what we're talking about, but I'm pretty sure people don't necessarily so hetch hetchy used to be a valley like the Yosemite valley with waterfalls and magnificent cliffs and things and it was such an interesting valley that they decided to turn it into a reservoir and it snail San Francisco's water supply. And that's one of the reasons fewer people go there is that you're hiking around this reservoir and there's a dam there and they've talked about ripping out the dam and letting it return. I don't know that that's ever going to happen. And then Ptolemy Meadows we're talking about a high country area. So an area you can't go in the winter it's closed. So it's a summer or spring to early fall activity. Right. So Yosemite is one of the world's premier year round climbing destinations. It's definitely helped people understand that through all the recent hardcore climbing films that take place there. But the main draw is really for climbing are the valley and tuolumne Meadows. I mean, if you're a hardcore climber, then in a way you already know the routes that you might want to hit and camp for in Yosemite valley is known to be the climber's campground. But the beginners can also sign up for classes or guided adventures with the Yosemite mountaineering school and guide service. They can learn to climb in Yosemite, which is kind of a neat thing to be able to say you did. But they have that country trips and also guided hikes if climbing is not your deal. But if you're intrigued by climbing, but you don't want to be hanging off the granite walls of you somebody valley. There's a really good spot where you can get a chair lounge and El Capitan meadow with a pair of binoculars. And you can just kind of get in on the action and enjoy it and watch and say, wow, that looks really hard. Where's my beer? That sounds more like my speed. The one thing I wonder if you want to comment on that's someone in between, one of the more challenging and very, very popular hikes is half dome. And it's not a climb exactly, but it's a little more than a hike. Yeah, it's one of those definite reservation system you can't just go thinking that you're going to go climb half dome in a given day. You have to sign up the sign ups, go very quickly. I can't remember offhand how far in advance they open..
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"yosemite" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"But it's getting more visitors than in past years, but it's still mostly wilderness. And so a lot of people who want all the amenities on the valley floor aren't really going to spend a lot of time up at tuolumne. Okay. Here's where I was going. I was going a little less by area and more by activity. So I was thinking like, if we talk about hiking, there are some day hikes that kind of span different parts of the park. There's climbing or just watching climbers. They're star viewing those types of things. So that's kind of how I mentally arranged my thoughts. We will go with your arrangement here. I like that. Okay, so let's talk about hiking. Okay. There's a huge list of hikes in Yosemite and they're really varied for different skill levels. One of the easiest ones and it's in the valley, it's the mirror Lake trail. It's also accessible and paved. And it leads to mirror Lake, which is created by a swell in tenaya creek, out and back. It's probably two miles. So it's really beautiful, really relatively easy. And then in the valley, there's the Yosemite falls trail, which can be done in parts. It's only a two mile round trip moderate hike to a spot called Columbia rock. And there you can get views of the valley and half dome and sentinel rock. But if you really want to be hardcore about it, you can choose instead not to stop there, but to go all the way to the top of the falls, the entire hike is about a 7.2 mile round trip, but it's much more strenuous than going and stopping at Columbia and turning around. Okay. It is worth it though, but it's definitely steep on that second part after Columbia rock. Got it. And then another one that I think really, I feel like it's underappreciated. It's called the Yosemite valley loop And it loops around the valley. You could do it in a half loop, but the full loop is about 12 miles. And it's funny because even in summer, even when there are cars on the road, you can be walking in the valley loop trail and just still get nature sounds, still feel like you're separated from all the crowds. I did it most recently at the end of September last year when I was in the park with my husband for our anniversary. And I'm wondering if this is the same trail that I did years ago, probably the last time we did a show on this on Yosemite was 16 years ago or so. As a bike trail, is this the same trail that I'm thinking of? Yeah. And I think so it's challenging to talk about biking in the park. Technically since it's a national park, really the only bike trails are paved roads and paved trails. Okay. I have seen in the past some information about the Yosemite valley loop trail being kind of a biking trail because and that sounds weird, but it is kind of weird. There are parts of that trail that were originally paved for different reasons. It really was like an old valley loop trail prior to all the ginormous infrastructure roads that are there now. And so you will run into little paved spots, but when I checked in September, I was told that it is not a bike trail. Okay. Interesting. So you were doing trails. Those are some varied hikes in the valley up north or east ish, 12 Meadows is a good jump off point for an easy round trip hike through Lyle canyon. Probably about 8 miles, it's really gorgeous and early summer when the Meadows are super green and full of wildflowers..
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"yosemite" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"A gorgeous gorgeous park. And again, in the summer it's busy in the winter time I have been in the Yosemite falls parking lot with three other cars. Yeah. For sure. And I don't mean to get off of the topic of what people should see and do because I have tons of info there. But I also want to add in you're talking about the reservation system. They have a peak hour reservation system just to give more info about that. It's supposed to start may 20th, 2022, and it goes through the end of September, September 30th, 2022. And that's just peak hours. So if you drive into the park between 6 and four, you absolutely have to have a reservation to do that. And that's aside from the entrance fee. But there are ways around that, obviously, go in earlier in the morning, come in later in the afternoon, that also avoids a lot of the crowds. But if you enter the park through a range towards like, for example, if you're staying at the tenaya lodge and it's adventure cabins in fish camp and join their bus tour. And it's a small bus. It's not like a ginormous one. You don't have to make a reservation. So tour groups can go in without reservations because that's done through the concession. Well, in one question I should ask, because I don't know the answer to it is, is the reservation system just for the Yosemite valley floor? Because that's the part that gets crowded. It is for the whole park. It is for the whole park because there are, when you go in through the entrances, there's not like a separate entrance to the valley floor. It is through roads, but you don't have like a toll booth there like you do at the entrances to the park in general. Right. Excellent. Well, let's get back. I did a real Jill. And I apologize. What should we see? You talked about coming out of the tunnel. Yes. That's one really great entrance for folks coming in from the south. Also around there, but before there, you're coming in through the mariposa grove of trees. It's near wawona. It's an ancient cluster of giant sequoias, including a 3000 year old grizzly giant. That's what the name that's been given to it. The valley I mentioned, and then also there are some out of the way places that I super love that aren't loved as heavily as the valley, which are hetch hetchy and tuolumne Meadows. Yep. Hetch hetchy is absolutely that's up at the north part of the park. And that's way lesser visited than the valley, but the secret is starting to come out about tuolumne Meadows. It used to be, you just knew going up there, you would find fewer, fewer fewer people..
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"yosemite" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"And I got my bags back on the road. I'm heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good in my passport oh no amateur traveler episode 799. Today amateur traveler talks about a UNESCO site that is also a U.S. national park and the first of U.S.'s parks to be protected. As we go to Yosemite National Park in California. Welcome to the amateur traveler, I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about Yosemite. I'd like to welcome back to the show Jill Robinson, travel writer from danger Jill Robinson dot com and Jill has come back to the show to talk to us about Yosemite Jill. Welcome back to the show. Thank you very much. And Jill has been on before talking about the wine country in California and New Orleans at least. Those are the two that I can come up with on top man. The only other one is San Francisco, which I talked to you about with Kimberly Lovato because we both wrote a book together a hundred things to do in San Francisco before you die. Excellent, there's going to be a lot less pressure on this particular episode in terms of dimensions of death one would hope. Oh, I might mention it once. I feel like this may be a silly question, but why should someone go to Yosemite? Well, I think someone should go to Yosemite because well, first of all, it's one of the most iconic national parks in the U.S. for very good reason. It's got about 1200 square miles, and that's packed with huge granite walls, plenty of thundering waterfalls, domes and peaks, carved by ancient glaciers and volcanos. It's got kind of extreme elevation from about 1800 feet at its lowest point and going to more than 13,000 feet at its highest. It's got more than 400 species of wildlife from as small as insects and little rodents like marmots to black bears and Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep. That's my short answer, but I also think that it's really important because the framework of for the park was established really early in 1864. And so it was really the first time in history that the Yosemite grant act that land was designated for public use and preservation, which really sparked the idea of the national parks, even though you have somebody who was not the first national park to be designated. Right, the first of the national parks to be preserved but not the first to be a national park if I've got that correct. You do, yeah. Excellent..
Health Babes Podcast
"yosemite" Discussed on Health Babes Podcast
"Protect it with your life many times. I mean, look at what happens when a tourist in Yosemite gets between a mother bear and her cubs. Or heaven forbid you get between a Tiger and their baby, anything else. Those people get killed or attacked..
Dirty Bird Podcast
Buffleheads Are Highly Reliant on Northern Flickers – Here’s Why
"Some koufax i found about the buffalo head is they're highly. Reliant on northern flickers northern flickers are really species. Yeah and they're highly reliant on their nesting. Cavities we have them here. We have northern flickers here. There's actually a pair not too far from where i live In one of the trees. But i think the tail feathers and the wing feathers are different. Color yeah on the flickers here than the flickers where you are out west. You guys have read shafted northern flickers and out here we have golden shaft. northern flickers When i i Went out west for the first time in like you know into yosemite did all those national parks i remember seeing a northern flicker and it had the red red shafts on the bottom of wings and the tail and i had no idea what kind of bird it was like. Oh my god the things huge and it's all red like and then i realized. Oh it's a northern flickers. She's you know colored different. I kind of forgot that fact. But apparently there there's northern flicker nesting. Cavities are like just the right size for the buffalo head. They're like just big enough for them. To nest in and buffalo heads are like on the smaller side for cavity nesting ducks other ducks like the wood. Duck that nest in old woodpecker. Cavities and stuff. So the buffets are like jih small enough to fit in and so that helps them You know Not get out competed by by bigger nesting ducks so they're really relying on those northern flickers.
Another Mother Runner
Optimal Training Path for Success on Difficult Hikes
"Talk a little bit about our training. I mean so. I basically modified the program. That i gave that i gave you guys for the grand canyon and i will say that we have at about if you're listening and you're like the indian or i wanna do yosemite or another big hike is about seventy percents away there for prime time in our training programs as just one of those things that it's just kind of been stalled by life in the pandemic and everything else so maybe this'll finally podcastone finally per spur us to get it up but talk a little bit about the training and stuff you guys did. Yeah so the train you said. It's not really well so we foy there was up. I look back at what we did. And i feel like we entered. I entered this training round in a better place. I think. Then the grand canyon had a train to start treating for the grand canyon But misplace. I felt pretty good spat with strength training. Three times a week And you set up with gradually increasing longer aches hikes and you know specific distances. We had to hinch elevation gains. We had to hitch A lot of the. I did supplement my strength training with some of your exercises more around the pre stuff that mobility work which i think is super helpful because of the impact and being on your feet so much Was super helpful You know the max hike that we did we had on our schedule was fifteen. Miles was a target and three thousand feet of elevation so in minnesota at natch Which we did is we started. Actually are training going to highland hills in bloomington and just going up and down. The ski hills and that is my ground zero through other hikers. Were training for other an epic events. We bumped into someone there who had done half dome sober. He was trained in for sunday. Hideout washington And so just part of me that part of the train alone and bumping into people's super inspiring and gain a little bit in sight in their experiences. So you know we did so back to the training routine it. Was you know strength three times. A week Just narrow able to keep going our classes or we could drop in on yours as well. you know. There was some run walking mixed in there one day a week or two days a week and then a big hike on the weekend
AP News Radio
Searchers Rescued After Helicopter Crash; Hiker Also Found
"Search team crashes looking for a missing hiker in the mountains east of Yosemite National Park but there's a happy ending to the story it starts out with an Oklahoma university professor reported missing last week undertrial to boundary peak near the California Nevada line the crew of a navy MH sixty night hawk was part of the search in the White Mountains when that chopper crashed near the tallest peak the four member crew not only survived they escaped serious injury but they have to spend part of the weekend in the rugged wilderness waiting for rescue it took two tries to get them out meanwhile other hikers found the missing professor he's in good condition other than a little dehydrated I'm Jackie Quinn
AP News Radio
Firefighters Make Progress Against Big Fires in US West
"One of the biggest fires is along the California Nevada border Kelly grow so when his family and Doyle California had to evacuate after losing everything that I've worked for and everything else all these years it's gone he spoke to K. O. L. O. T. V. Jon Hansen and his dog were forced out of their home near Yosemite National Park threw some clothes in a bag and grandma shoes and then he was dead and took off I hope everything is still there when I get back he spoke to K. F. S. N. in Oregon the bootleg fire covers two hundred forty square miles lightning has sparked fires in Washington and Idaho extreme heat has set off many of these fires forecasters say temperatures will be dropping I bet Donahue
LensWork
The Importance of Photography Workshops
"I've been an advocate of attending a photographic workshop. For as long as i can remember. Maybe because i had such terrific experiences in workshops but i also think that they offer quite a bit that simply cannot be replicated with youtube videos and online instruction and etc part of that is of course the ability to just hang out with your peers with people who were as dedicated about photography's you are with instructors but i think when it gets right down to it one of the most valuable things that happens in a workshop are the unexpected questions that you develop once you're there and here's an example in one of the very first workshops that i ever did. I went to yosemite for a workshop. That was being taught by bruce. Birnbaum john sexton and ray mix savvy as part of the owens valley photography workshops. I went because i wanted some honest feedback in my work. I'd spent months preparing stack of prince toned. Spotted matted to the very best of my abilities and i was kind of looking for some sort of assessment where i was in the photographic process. That was my reason for going and ended up being the least important thing that i gathered from that workshop. The most important thing came in the form of a field session now feel sessions are not often the most productive thing that happens in a photographic workshop. Because you don't go to a workshop to make photograph you go to a workshop to learn something but nonetheless. It seems like every photographic workshop includes field sessions and in this field session. We were at a particular location that had a small creek and we were all supposed to find a photograph compose it set up our cameras etc and then the instructors were gonna come around and look through our camera an offer some comments about what we had seen in composed. I found my subjects set up. My view camera made my composition and not long afterwards. Bruce birnbaum came up as the first of the instructors. Who's going to take a look at my field composition. He didn't even look through the camera. He didn't look at viewfinder. he didn't do anything he walked up and he said why. Have you composed this image. Certainly an innocent enough question but one that really got me thinking. He didn't wanna know how i was going to expose it or what. My thinking was relative to you. Know rule of thirds or anything like that. He didn't question my bangel in position. He asked
Tim Conway Jr.
After a Year Stuck Indoors, Visitors Expected to Overcrowd National Parks
"One way to ease back into traveling is to find a vacation spot with a little more space like a visit to one of America's 63. National parks. We sent Johnson vaguely Adi to California's Yosemite National Park, which is my favorite. That sounds like your sidekick Amber Johnson vaguely RD to get a bigger TRT and, uh, what was your last name Cannoli Big Adi Adi and Canola Johnson, vaguely Adi to California's Yosemite National Park, which is my favorite. We're here at Tunnel view, and you can clearly see how Yosemite became the muse for pain photographer Ansel Adams. This park has everything from dramatic waterfalls, two towering sequoias and iconic rock formations like El Capitan and half toe during the pandemic. National parks welcome roughly 237 million visitors. About what A year during the pandemic. National parks welcome roughly 237 Million visitors about a 30% drop from the year before. Those numbers are expected to go back up Yosemite preparing for I don't buy that number. I don't think that the national parks had 237 million visitors are in covid. So they say. Normally, it's It's 30% higher. That's normally 300 million. So it's basically the population of this country going to everybody went once. Every year, Right? That's the BS. I understand, Angel,
WTOP 24 Hour News
Yosemite National Park to Reopen to Limited Visitors This Summer
"Haitian involves a trip to a national park. You might have to do a little extra prep hitting the Great wide open will require an advance reservation this summer. Under the new rules, advanced reservations will be required for day use visitors who enter Yosemite National Park from May 21st to September 30th. It's to allow social distancing. Rocky Mountain, National Park and Glacier National Park are putting in place similar rules. Jennifer Keiper, CBS News Still to come in
The World
How 2 Skiers Conquered Yosemite's Half Dome
"Valley, 8800 FT. Above Sea level is a rock formation called Half Dome in the 19th century, a report said. The granite landmark was so perilous that it quote Never will be trodden by human foot. Well, today, Half dome is a popular hike for thrill seeking climbers. Yosemite resident Jason Tor Llano has always looked at the massive rock with a feeling of wonder. I went to school, right New 70 Valley next to you, Somebody falls. Um and you look up you somebody from the playground is a little kid. That's where the big thunderstorms come from. And when it snows, it just gets packed with snow and And it's just always been attracted to have them. But Torre Llanos attraction to half Dome has always been tied to another interest of his skiing since the very first time he clicked into skis. From that moment on, I just looked around and Kept seeing shoots our ski able to this age. When he was 17 Tor Lana went climbing with a friend on half dome. Remember walking down the cable's going? Wow, I bet you this thing's cable, and it turns out he was right this year, Jason to Orlando and his friends act, Milligan finally descended. Half dome on skis mean climbing half dome is dangerous enough descending on skis. It's a slab of no anchors. So avalanches occur all the time off that. And if you fall or get caught in an avalanche, you're gonna fall off the South face 1000 ft Cliff, so they scouted the location a day early. We walked up there the day before, and we slept at the base in a tree. Well, we start a little fire and kept warm for a few hours. So we're so cold at three in the morning. We're like okay with mice will go to the top. We got it in perfect conditions. This time, it was like a lay an inch layer of ice with about 3 to 4 inches of snow. Trevino and Mulligan weren't the first to descend Half dome in the snow. It's been done on skis and on snowboard, but their trip was special. Well made Our stand a little different is we? We skied the cables with no ropes. But then we see it all the way down to near Lake So another 4000 plus Vertical feet. Achieving this lifelong dream has not stopped to Orlando from eyeing other slopes in the park. Every time I go to Yosemite. I look up into the mountains and just there's so much I want to do. They're still that's Jason Tor Lana, who skied down half dome into the Yosemite Valley last month.
AP News Radio
2 skiers defy death in descent of Yosemite's Half Dome
"Two men have navigated down the precipitous shoulder of half dome in Yosemite National Park most skiers at some point have probably found themselves atop a slope far longer steeper and I see than they bargained for no picture Yosemite national park's iconic half dome made famous by Ansel Adams stunning photos and consider how you'd get down back it took Jason Orlando anzac Milligan five hours to do it last Sunday alternately skiing down the crusty snow and repelling down several sections of bare rock known as the death slabs beneath the face of half dome professional skiers say there's no margin for error and a small misstep could prove deadly but to Orlando says he's been dreaming about the feat since he was five he recorded parts of it and provided the AP with video the Saudi I'm Dan Thomas
The Energy Show
2 skiers defy death in descent of Yosemite's Half Dome
"Meanwhile, two men have navigated down the dangerously steep shoulder of half dome and you 70 National Park, Jason to Orlando and Zach Milligan completed the descent in five hours. They said they carefully carved their way and crusty snow and used ropes to repel several sections of bare rock known as the death slabs beneath the iconic face of half dome. Professional skiers say there's no margin for error, and a small misstep could lead
WTOP 24 Hour News
Major winter storm threatens millions in the northeast
"Get pounded by heavy snow tens of millions of people in the U. S or dealing with this major winter storm. CBS News correspondent Adriana Diaz is watching the map. A storm is said to dump snow and ice from the Midwest to the Northeast. Here in Chicago. 6 to 10 inches could fall parts of California are still digging out Yosemite National Park, where at least 18 inches of snow fell. The park hopes to welcome visitors back on Monday and in the Sierras. Snow was measured in feet, five of them that brought out snowboarders and skiers at Lake Tahoe who loved it. All. The storm will also bring freezing
WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"yosemite" Discussed on WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"Story. And here it comes. Nor'easters still on track to hit us beginning tomorrow afternoon, continuing into the better part of Tuesday, there will be a strong, gusty wind, especially at the coast. And that means during the time of high tide, we're gonna have to watch for some potential coastal flooding, as well as some beach erosion and that maybe over a period of high tide cycles, WBZ TV meteorologist Cerebro Bless Qi. Still a good chance The snow will mix with some rain along the coast, which will hold down Some of the snow totals on Winter Storm Watch has been posted by the National Weather Service beginning tomorrow morning. For most counties statewide, Plymouth and Barnstable County is not in that watch, at least for now. The heaviest snowfall expected away from the coast and this heavy snow not affecting just New England. A storm is said to dump snow and ice from the Midwest to the Northeast. Here in Chicago. 6 to 10 inches could fall parts of California are still digging out Yosemite National Park, or at least 18. Inches of snow fell. The park hopes to welcome visitors back on Monday and in the Sierras, the snow was measured in feet. Five of them that brought out snowboarders and skiers at Lake Tahoe, who loved it all. CBS News correspondent Adriana de as the storm will also bring freezing rain to areas East of the Appalachian Mountains in Virginia and the Carolinas. One local ski area will be opened this morning after skiers were not allowed to hit the slopes yesterday. Here's WBZ TV is Paul Burton. Snow making machines are drinking at Blue Hill.
Pat Thurston
Snowplow driver finds 2 bodies on side of road near Yosemite
"Officials say a man and woman found killed on a remote stretch of highway 3 95 in the eastern Sierra Nevada were a married couple from Southern California, the Mono County Sheriff's Office as a snowplow driver spotted the bodies of William Larson and, yes, Enea Larson on the shoulder of the highway about 10 miles north of the tiny town of Bridgeport, Bridgeport. Authorities responded. They determined those deaths were homicide. Investigators say the crime appears to be specific and targeted.
Pat Walsh
Emily Harrington is first woman to free climb Golden Gate route on Yosemite's El Capitan in one day
"Herring to becoming the first woman to free climb El Capitan in a single day. She's a professional rock climber Emily Harrington. Made history when she scaled the 3000 FT Granite wall of Yosemite National Park's El Capitan in under 24 hours. There's someone who could care less about the election going on. She's like I have other things on my mind. And she is a five time US national champion. I guess in rock climbing. I don't know. Racing for this climb just a year earlier that hospitalized her And a 1 30 said 10 36 against it was To begin our ascent. 21 hours, 30 minutes 51 seconds later. Herrington reached the top of El Capitan, making her fourth Her the fourth person. The first woman to ever climb a ll Capitan in 24 hours. Says NBC Nunally Harrington has literally climbed her way to the top The 34 year old rock climber, becoming the first woman ever to free climb the famed golden Gate root of El Capitan. Doing it in under 24 hours in order to free climbed el cap in a day you have to cut corner for me. It was just about balancing what types of risk I was willing to take in orderto sacrifice. My safety for seed head wound from a bad fall during the climb almost prevented her from completing it. There was a part of me that didn't want to Going, But there was this other part of me that just knew that I could do it and I deserved. I owed it to myself to try again. Carrington pushed through, making her way up nearly 3000 Ft of El Cap, one of the biggest, most iconic walls known the world over for its sheer size and difficulty. Harrington is only the fourth person ever to free climb the Golden Gate route in a single day. Using just her hands to grip ridges, sin his dimes and ropes only as a safety measure not to aid the climb. I feel like anybody could conceivably die on any given day Sport of rock climbing, made popular in the documentary Free Solo, which followed Alex Honnold as he successfully attempted the first free solo climb of El Capitan. Scaling the vertical rock face without any protection from a fall and scary honestly, a big part of the appeal is to be in this position that should be totally scary should be crazy, but to feel super comfortable. Honnold, a longtime friend and climbing partner of Harrington accompanied her on the first two thirds of her historic climb. Her fiance, Adrian Ballenger, joined her for the final section, climbing much of the sheer rock in the dark of the night, ultimately achieving what she calls an impossible dream, setting a new record and scaling her way to new Heights. Amazing. Wow. NBC News that report.