Project Yosemite

If you ever come to California, one of the best things you can do is visit Yosemite National Park. Many of the images in this video are taken from the valley floor and at spots accessible by passenger car. You don't need to backpack into the back country to see how spectacular this place really is:


Yosemite HD from Project Yosemite on Vimeo.

A View Like No Other

Winter's coming, and rocks will fall, but any time is a good time to visit Yosemite National Park.

More stunning pictures accompany the full article in the San Francisco Chronicle, which you can read by clicking here.

"Run for your lives!"

photo by Tom Trujillo for AP

A large slab of granite cracked loose from a cliff in Yosemite National Park this morning and crashed into the Curry Village resort with a thunderous roar, flattening tents and forcing hundreds of campers to run for their lives.

"It sounded enormous, like the earthquakes I've been in in Los Angeles," said Tom Voelpel, a lighting technician from Valencia who was sharing a tent at Curry Village with his twin brother, Dave, in celebration of their 50th birthday. "You could hear trees snapping and rocks crunching and cracking against each other."

—from the San Francisco Chronicle; reporting by Peter Fimrite and Steve Rubenstein

Click here to read the full article, and click here to see the rest of the photos.