Bad year ahead for Yosemite National Park

That figures, it would be the year we've made plans to be there. :(

It's part of the larger cycle weather-wise. Sometimes there are fires but these serve to enhance the reproductive cycle of certain species of flora. Then it goes into lush mode again.

Yosemite is amazing, with or without waterfalls. But I am sad about the trees.

That is sad. We've been out to SD/WY during fire season where we've had to say prepared to bug out as well as when the weather has been "normal". The parks may look different but you will see things you had never noticed before. Up here we're all wondering if cg openings will be delayed due to too much snow and mud. If we could only ship some of our moisture west!

rv2go wrote:
LA Times article
Also, Glacier Point Road has opened the earliest in 20 years.

It's kinda scary how dry it's been. I think the entire west is that way. I heard that California has serious water problems. Here in southeast Wyoming we've had fire danger warnings the last couple of days. We've not had a winter this dry in the 22 or so years I've lived here. :(

The first time I went it was dry with fires and no waterfalls. This was maybe 2003? There was an earthquake in the lower sacramento valley which triggered landslides which took out the roads in and out of the park. We had to sleep in the car (BIL forgot tent poles) in a Campground near Lee Vining/Mono Lake. There werw caravans in and out at 6 am , noon and 6 p.m.

The bees were desperate for water. They would climb all over you if you were drinking some.

Here in Northern California we are in our third straight year of drought. Hardly any rain or snow this winter. Most of the ski resorts at Lake Tahoe are closed for the season. I have been skiing Tahoe since 1972 and I don't remember the resorts closing in March. Never. Ever. Safe travels.

I forget which is which but CA depends on La Nino or El Niño for rain. One is dry and one is wet. This was supposed to be the beginning of a wet cycle and it didn't happen.

Really sad from every angle. Fire potential, farmers hurting, dry water falls . . . I imagine the Tahoe is really hurting with this many bad years in a row. Start Haus in Truckee was running huge sales early last spring on powder skis because the powder never came and this year was worse - although I'm on the East Coast now. (no shortage of snow and rain over here. wish we could have shipped CA some.)

magnusfide wrote:
It's part of the larger cycle weather-wise. Sometimes there are fires but these serve to enhance the reproductive cycle of certain species of flora. Then it goes into lush mode again.

Right.