<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title><![CDATA[camping - SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports]]></title><description><![CDATA[SFist is San Francisco's source for fun, witty, & serious news. With updates about restaurants, events, sports, politics & more, SFist reaches millions of users in California.]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/</link><image><url>https://sfist.com/favicon.png</url><title>camping - SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, &amp; Sports</title><link>https://sfist.com/</link></image><generator>Ghost 2.12</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:22:59 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://sfist.com/camping/rss/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Saturday Links: California Has Zero Droughts For the First Time in 25 Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two protestors were detained and two pepper sprayed Friday afternoon outside ICE's field office in SF; Guy Fieri is on the mend from “exploding” his leg muscle; and the state of California is drought-free for the first time since 2000.]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2026/01/10/saturday-links-california-has-noo-drought-conditions-for-the-first-time-in-25-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69629b294ce0b3162eca35b2</guid><category><![CDATA[SF News]]></category><category><![CDATA[morning links]]></category><category><![CDATA[california drought]]></category><category><![CDATA[drought]]></category><category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category><category><![CDATA[Immigration and Customs Enforcement]]></category><category><![CDATA[immigrant rights]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category><category><![CDATA[sonoma county]]></category><category><![CDATA[guy fieri]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bodega Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[kayaker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Transamerica Pyramid]]></category><category><![CDATA[financial district]]></category><category><![CDATA[camping]]></category><category><![CDATA[tenderlion]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Leanne Maxwell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:39:31 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://img.sfist.com/2026/01/Fillmore-Mural-Lights-Leanne-Maxwell.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<ul><li><strong>According to the US Drought Monitor, there are currently no droughts anywhere in California for the first time since December 2000.</strong> Meanwhile the rest of the country is experiencing unusual drought or dry conditions. [<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/california-drought-free-first-time-since-2000/">KPIX</a>]</li></ul><div align="center" style="width:100%; max-width:100%">
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</div><img src="https://img.sfist.com/2026/01/Fillmore-Mural-Lights-Leanne-Maxwell.jpg" alt="Saturday Links: California Has Zero Droughts For the First Time in 25 Years"><p></p><ul><li><strong>Protestors gathered outside ICE’s field office at 630 Sansome in SF Friday afternoon in protest of the killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.</strong> Two protesters, who were part of a group of about 30 people from the group <a href="https://daretostruggle.org/">Dare to Struggle</a>, were detained and two others were pepper-sprayed by security guards. [<a href="https://missionlocal.org/2026/01/sf-ice-protest-immigration-renee-nicole-good/">Mission Local</a>]</li></ul><div align="center" style="width:100%; max-width:100%">
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</div><p></p><ul><li><strong>Sonoma County-based celebrity chef Guy Fieri appears to be on the mend after a devastating fall that led to the  </strong><a href="https://sfist.com/2025/12/01/local-celebrity-chef-guy-fieri-exploded-leg-muscle-in-fall-will-spend-eight-weeks-wheelchair-bound/"><strong>“exploding” of his quad muscle</strong></a><strong> during the filming of his show </strong><em><strong>Flavor Town Food Fight</strong></em><strong> in November.</strong> Fieri was recently <a href="https://sandiegomagazine.com/listen/happy-half-hour-podcast/guy-fieri-food-network/">on a podcast</a> where he gave an update on his health and talked about “the greatest achievement” of his career — the <a href="https://www.guyfierifoundation.org/">Guy Fieri Foundation</a>, which provides meals to low-income families on Thanksgiving as well as emergency responders during disasters. [<a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/01/08/guy-fieri-gives-update-on-injury-that-landed-him-in-a-wheelchair/">The Press Democrat</a>]</li></ul><div align="center" style="width:100%; max-width:100%">
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</div><p></p><ul><li>A kayaker with crabbing gear and wearing a flotation device was found dead in Bodega Bay Friday morning after another kayaker saw him floating face down in the water; an autopsy is being conducted. [<a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/kayaker-dies-drowning-bodega-bay-beach-21286515.php">Chronicle</a>]</li><li>The public was asked to avoid the area near SF’s Transamerica Pyramid at Washington and Sansome streets Friday afternoon due to police activity, but no other activity was provided. [<a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/sf-financial-district-protest/4011199/">NBC Bay Area</a>]</li><li>Although the year has just begun, now is the time to book your Bay Area camping trips due to notoriously high demand and limited availability, as well as new penalties that went into effect this year to deter cancellations. [<a href="https://www.kqed.org/news/11973183/want-to-go-camping-near-the-bay-area-this-summer-make-your-reservations-now">KQED</a>]</li><li>San Francisco police are searching for a 65-year-old male suspect who assaulted a 30-year-old man with a baseball bat on the 700 block of Larkin Street in the Tenderloin around 11 pm Thursday. [<a href="https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/sf-baseball-bat-attack-suspect-sought-by-police/">KQED</a>]</li></ul><p><em>Image: Leanne Maxwell/SFist</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young Yosemite Campers Killed By Falling Tree Limb]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two young campers were killed in Yosemite National Park this morning when a oak tree's limb fell onto their tent as they slept.]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2015/08/14/young_yosemite_campers_killed_by_fa/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c24303644ad066cdcf8e8cf</guid><category><![CDATA[SF News]]></category><category><![CDATA[camping]]></category><category><![CDATA[death]]></category><category><![CDATA[fatality]]></category><category><![CDATA[nature]]></category><category><![CDATA[trees]]></category><category><![CDATA[yosemite]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eve Batey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2015 13:45:00 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2013/04/yosemite_amitp-thumb-640xauto-786399.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2013/04/yosemite_amitp-thumb-640xauto-786399.jpg" alt="Young Yosemite Campers Killed By Falling Tree Limb"><p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;">  </span></p>

<p>Two young campers were killed in Yosemite National Park this morning when a oak tree's limb fell onto their tent as they slept.</p>

<p>According to Yosemite National Park spokesman Scott Gediman, the two minors were in a tent in Yosemite Valley's Upper Pines Campground when the limb fell at around 5 a.m. Friday.</p>

<p>"Park Rangers responded to the campground to provide medical assistance,"  Gediman said, "yet both minors were deceased."</p>

<p>Details on the victims are still unknown, as "the names, ages, and places of residence of the victims are not being released," the National Park Service said in a statement, and  <a href="http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/Tree-Limb-Falls-Killed-Two-Children-in-Yosemite-National-Park-321894901.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_LABrand">NBC4 reports that</a> as of 12:30 this afternoon, "the Stanislaus County Corner had not yet received the bodies and couldn't offer any more information."</p>

<p><a href="http://ktla.com/2015/08/14/2-children-killed-when-tree-limb-falls-on-tent-in-yosemite-valley-campground/">According to KTLA</a>, the Upper Pines Campground is "largely wooded" and "is regularly booked within minutes of reservations becoming available." <a href="http://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/upperpines.htm">It contains 238 campsites</a>, and either near capacity or full when the tragedy occurred,  <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/tree-limb-falls-tent-killing-young-campers-yosemite-33090653">the Associated Press reports</a>.</p>

<p>"August is peak season at Yosemite," <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/2-kids-killed-in-Yosemite-when-tree-branch-falls-6444858.php">the Chron reports</a>, "where more than a half million people visit during the month, most spending time in the picturesque Valley" where this morning's incident occurred.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-trees-dying-california-drought-20150505-story.html">The LA Times reported in May</a> that over 12 million trees in California national forests have died as a result of the current drought. According to the National Weather Service, things have been especially dry in Yosemite, temperatures in the 80s and 90s all of July and August. Temps hit a high of 97 in the park yesterday, the NWS says.</p>

<p>However, it would be premature to blame the drought for this one, as Gediman says an investigation must still be conducted to determine why the limb fell.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunter's Campfire Caused Rim Fire]]></title><description><![CDATA[Well, it seems a lone man is responsible for the Rim Fire that has (so far) burned 370 square miles of Northern California forest, and <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Rim-Fire-cause-hun...]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2013/09/05/hunters_campfire_caused_rim_fire/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c2425e744ad066cdcf3a233</guid><category><![CDATA[SF News]]></category><category><![CDATA[camping]]></category><category><![CDATA[fire]]></category><category><![CDATA[rim fire]]></category><category><![CDATA[wildfires]]></category><category><![CDATA[yosemite]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Barmann]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 11:10:59 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;">  </span></p>

<p>Well, it seems a lone man is responsible for the Rim Fire that has (so far) burned 370 square miles of Northern California forest, and <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Rim-Fire-cause-hunter-s-illegal-campfire-4789468.php">it's all because of an illegal campfire</a>. The cause of the fire that broke out August 17 has been "under investigation" these past three weeks and only now do we hear that authorities have identified the culprit. He's got to feel pretty goddamn guilty.</p>

<p>The forest service has not revealed the man's name and say that they are still investigating.</p>

<p>The beginning of the fire was about three miles east of Groveland, where the man, on a hunting trip, built an illegal campfire that got out of control. </p>

<p>This news follows on <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-rim-fire-20130904,0,4106641.story">a rumor floated by the <em>LA Times</em> yesterday</a> that a pot growing operation caused the blaze. That came out of a comment made by the police chief in the tiny town of Twain Harte, who told a community gathering that this was his hunch. </p>

<p>We'll let you know if and when charges are filed against the hunter. </p>

<p>The fire, as we discussed earlier this week, is about 75% contained and it will be another couple of weeks before it is fully contained.</p>

<p>[<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Rim-Fire-cause-hunter-s-illegal-campfire-4789468.php">SFGate</a>]<br>
[<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/05/yosemite-rim-fire-marijuana/2770045/">USA Today</a>]</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[nugget o' history: Mark Twain torched Lake Tahoe?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The wildfire raging up near Lake Tahoe reminded us of our dear old cousin Mark. Mark Twain, that is, and what we remembered was his own brush with accidental arson up Tahoe way. It's a little-known fa...]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2007/06/28/nugget_o_histor/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c24271144ad066cdcf437c8</guid><category><![CDATA[Arts & Entertainment]]></category><category><![CDATA[arson]]></category><category><![CDATA[camping]]></category><category><![CDATA[coffee]]></category><category><![CDATA[fire]]></category><category><![CDATA[forestfire]]></category><category><![CDATA[government]]></category><category><![CDATA[Governor]]></category><category><![CDATA[history]]></category><category><![CDATA[lake tahoe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Twain]]></category><category><![CDATA[marktwain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nevada]]></category><category><![CDATA[sparkletack]]></category><category><![CDATA[toahoe]]></category><category><![CDATA[west]]></category><category><![CDATA[While I]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[sfist_richard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The<a href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/28/BAG6AQNJD94.DTL"> wildfire raging</a> up near Lake Tahoe reminded us of our dear old cousin Mark. Mark Twain, that is, and what we remembered was his own brush with accidental arson up Tahoe way.</p>

<p>It's a little-known fact, if "fact" be something that can safely ascribed to Twain's <a href="http://www.sparkletack.com/2007/01/10/roughing-it-book-review/">baroquely embellished reminiscences</a> of his years out West, that he was solely responsible for a horrendous forest fire on the shores of Lake Tahoe.</p>

<p>It was 1861, and the young not-yet-famous-writer was taking a break from the imaginary job of assisting his brother, the Secretary to the Governor of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Territory">Nevada Territory</a>. There wasn't much government to speak of in the Territory, nor any real work at all -- but he'd heard tales of a gorgeous mountain lake paradise to the north, so one day he and a friend set out to find the spot. All was idyllic for the first two weeks of the camping trip, but then... well, perhaps we should let him tell the story in his own words -- here's Mark Twain in an excerpt from <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/1/7/3177/3177-h/3177-h.htm">Roughing It</a>:</p>

<blockquote>By and by our provisions began to run short, and we went back to the old camp and laid in a new supply. We were gone all day, and reached home again about night-fall, pretty tired and hungry. While Johnny was carrying the main bulk of the provisions up to our "house" for future use, I took the loaf of bread, some slices of bacon, and the coffee-pot, ashore, set them down by a tree, lit a fire, and went back to the boat to get the frying-pan. While I was at this, I heard a shout from Johnny, and looking up I saw that my fire was galloping all over the premises! Johnny was on the other side of it. He had to run through the flames to get to the lake shore, and then we stood helpless and watched the devastation.
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