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Subject: [Leica] IMGs: Yosemite - A stormy weekend
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 06:42:04 -0800
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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>
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>> 
>> 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
>> 
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