Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/03/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mar 6, 2011, at 9:56 PM, Aram Langhans wrote: > 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, Bob, this sounds like a great idea...would appreciate you cc me, Steve > > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information