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The prospect of another federal government shutdown this weekend worries many Tuolumne County business owners and tourism promoters who remember skeleton staffing, uncollected trash, locked toilets, and human feces in

Yosemite Valley will remain closed until at least Wednesday morning depending on the height of river as snow melts

  That morning sun was low in the sky and not the best for picture taking but still very pretty. The trail led me on. I soon got a sneak peek at Illilouette Fall.   There were a few spots with water running down the trail but nothing I couldn’t step on strategic rocks or pieces of wood to get over. I followed the sign to Illilouette Fall.     And I could hear the roar of Illilouette Fall long before I reached a spot off of a short side trail with the best view of Illilouette Fall. When yo...

Photos: Rare night rainbows created by moonlight to arrive in Yosemite FacebookTwitterEmail Lunar rainbows are both exciting and challenging to shoot, according to the photographer, because they depend upon so many things happening simultaneously.Courtesy of Luke Tyree They’ve got a lot of names: Lunar rainbows. Moonbows. Spraybows. Space rainbows. Lunar Spraybows. Whatever you’d like to call the moonlight reflecting off waterfall droplets, the photographs of these things beneath starry ski...

Skip to main content So tragic: Hiker may have been the last person to see Alice Yu Xie alive in Yosemite FacebookTwitterEmail A photo of Yosemite Falls on Jan. 14, the day "Alice" Yu Xie hiked to the top and fell from a cliff.Courtesy of Anna Horn On Jan. 14, an unseasonably warm and clear Thursday in Yosemite National Park, Anna Horn went for a solo hike up Yosemite Falls. Horn lives close to the park and works as a bartender in the gateway town of Mariposa, allowing her to visit frequently. ...

Missing woman found dead at base of Upper Yosemite Fall [SFGate, San Francisco] Jan. 24—A woman reported missing on Jan. 15 was found dead the next day, Yosemite Park officials announced Friday. It is not clear why she was listed missing for a week when park officials now say she was discovered deceased the day after her disappearance. “Alice” Yu Xie, 41, traveled from Mariposa to Yosemite on a YARTS bus on Jan. 14. Either that day or the next morning, she left for a hike to the top of Yo...