Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/03/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Good idea. If things at Yosemite don't open up I will suggest it. Is the first week in May too early for those areas? Any time frame you might suggest? How about some specific sites. Can contact me off list. Aram > From: Bob Adler <rgacpa at yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMGs: Yosemite - A stormy weekend > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Message-ID: <992583.2365.qm at web82105.mail.mud.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Great shots Aram! I know just where you were. > I've heard the campgrounds and tent cabins are already full. Really too > bad. > Might want to try something different like the eastern sierras; Mammoth, > Bishop, > Lee Vining. Beautiful area and good prices in the spring summer. > Best, > Bob > Bob Adler > Palo Alto, CA > http://www.rgaphoto.com > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Aram Langhans <leicar at q.com> > To: lug at leica-users.org > Sent: Sun, March 6, 2011 9:19:45 AM > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMGs: Yosemite - A stormy weekend > > Hi Bob. Great series. Love Yosemite in foul weather. Spend a week there > a few > winters ago and want to go back. Got stopped in Jan 2010 by closed roads, > and > this January there was no snow when we would have tried. Maybe next... > > Glad to see the Elder is still standing. Last Spring when we where there > I saw > some big chunks were missing from it's base. I compared shots from > previous > spring's and it was intact then. I fear it is not much longer and that > shot > will disappear from the valley floor. > > The last three springs we have camped there around the last week in April > or > first week in May. For all those trips, we made reservations perhaps 3 or > 4 > weeks before and have always had a pick of 20 or 30 sites. I never even > looked > earlier, but for some reason this year I looked about a month ago and was > surprised to see the campgrounds were all booked up in April and May. One > is > closed, so maybe that is why. Or maybe Oprah's show directed more people > to the > park, but I doubt it that early in the season. I'll keep looking, but I > fear > that we might be skunked this spring. Too bad, with all that water in the > mountains just waiting to come thundering down Vernal falls, the mist > trail > would be quite fun. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/spr09/yos/vernal_falls_trail-1639.jpg.html > > > Aram >