Arts & Entertainment Video: First Footage From Alex Honnold's Historic Free Climb Up Yosemite's El Capitan You likely heard this week about 31-year-old rock climber Alex Honnold's astonishing free-soloing feat up the 3,000-foot sheer wall of Yosemite's El Capitan. We know the whole thing was filmed, and now
SF News Insanely Brave Rock Climber Scaled El Capitan Without Any Ropes Or Safety Gear 31-year-old Alex Honnold climbed Yosemite's 3,000-foot granite wall El Capitan without one rope and without one piece of safety equipment. It's called "free soloing" and completing this feat at this location is
SF News Cowboy Sheriff Feeds 30 Cows Stranded On A River Island Near Yosemite A Central Valley sheriff organized an air-drop of two tons of hay for the 30 cows stranded on an island in the Merced River. The breeding cows are stuck due to to the
SF News Navy Sailor Missing At Yosemite For Nearly A Week While the record-melting Sierra snowpack has created some dazzling waterfall imagery, it also carries a high risk for floods and fast-moving rivers at Yosemite National Park. These treacherous waters can run exceedingly cold
Arts & Entertainment Trip Out On These Breathtaking Yosemite Melting-Snowpack Waterfall Videos We warned you at the beginning of the week that this year’s record-size Sierra snowpack melt could cause overflow and flooding near Merced River in Yosemite National Park, and that fishers, swimmers,
SF News Flooding Predicted This Week As Record Sierra Snowpack Melts Quickly Drought concerns are so last year. This year, floods are the far likelier catastrophe in Northern California as the Sierra Nevada snowpack — currently at 190 percent of its historical average and the largest
Arts & Entertainment Yosemite Admission Is Free This Weekend And Next And Waterfalls Are Raging #BridalveilFalls was incredible. 💦 There was so much water coming down that you were getting rained on before you even emerged from the trees to see it! 🌲@yosemitenps #yosemite #yosemitenationalpark #yosemitenp #california #unitedstates #america
SF News Woman Killed When Tree Falls On Tent In Yosemite 21-year-old woman killed by falling tree in Yosemite National Park over the weekend, officials say https://t.co/E4a45Ifhed pic.twitter.com/4cT9JUBm7c— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 6, 2017 A 21-year-old woman was
SF News Video: Upper Yosemite Fall Raging During Weekend Storm While a major weekend rainstorm brought minor to significant flooding to parts of the Bay Area, Reno, and in Yosemite National Park, it was not as severe or destructive as was feared in
SF News Video: Idiot Tourist Runs On Yosemite Cliff Edges 'For The Insta' Millions of people visit Yosemite National Park each year, and as one of this country's great natural wonders the park draws average Joe's and political elites alike. Unfortunately, it also attracts idiots like
SF News Unchecked Sexual Harassment Alleged At Yosemite, Other National Parks When we think of America's great national parks we picture vast mountains, impressive geysers, and deep canyons, and not so much a creepy dude staring through a bathroom window at his female employee
SF News Yosemite Announces Largest Expansion In 70 Years Wetlands, a meadow, rolling hills: Those are among the features encompassed in 400 acres of land donated to Yosemite by a nonprofit conservation group who purchased the land from private owners. The tract,
SF News Entry Fees Waived As National Park Service Turns 100 Have any plans this weekend? How about heading to one of our nation's great national parks? In celebration of the 100-year-anniversary of the National Park Service, CBS 5 reports that all entry fees
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Yosemite Sure Does Look Nice From Space Everyone loves Yosemite National Park (even President Obama!), and photos abound of the park in all its glory — think firefalls, art installations, and rare foxes. Well, we know have another picture to add
Arts & Entertainment Obama, First Family To Visit Yosemite Next Week The first family is set to visit California next week as part of an effort to highlight President Obama's efforts on behalf of our nation's parks. Specifically, reports the Chronicle, the four Obamas
SF News Video: Drone Shows Devastation Of Bark Beetles On Drought-Stricken Yosemite Forest Bark beetles. They are not a new phenomenon for California's pine forests, however our ongoing drought, now in its fourth or fifth year depending on who you ask, has stressed the trees to
SF News Yosemite 'Firefall' Phenomenon Delights Photographers That bright glow that appears to be lava? Don't worry. It's just light reflected on the Horsetail waterfall. The phenomenon referred to as the Yosemite Firefall, the Chronicle writes, is just observable twice
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch Rock Climbers Install Light-Based Art Installation On Yosemite's Half Dome This video, shot on August 29, shows a group of climbers installing 39 solar-powered LED lanterns temporarily up the Snake Dike route on Yosemite's Half Dome. It was an art piece titled Half
SF News Young Yosemite Campers Killed By Falling Tree Limb Two young campers were killed in Yosemite National Park this morning when a oak tree's limb fell onto their tent as they slept. According to Yosemite National Park spokesman Scott Gediman, the two
Arts & Entertainment Video: Scroll Your Way Up Yosemite's El Capitan With Google Street View Earlier this year, the 3,000 foot granite monolith El Capitan in Yosemite saw a historic free climb that captured and held the world's attention. Well, now you can return to El Cap
SF News Well Known Mountain Climber Dean Potter And One Other Die In BASE Jumping Accident At Yosemite A renowned climber and BASE jumper, who for years had flouted rules against BASE jumping in national parks, died Saturday along with another man in an accident involving wing suits, and a jump
SF News Rare Fox Sighted In Yosemite For First Time In Almost 100 Years The rare Sierra Nevada red fox has been sighted in Yosemite National Park for the first time in almost a century reports the National Park Service. It's speculated that there are fewer than
SF News Yosemite Climbers Triumph Over Dawn Wall Kevin Jorgeson, 30, and Tommy Caldwell, 36 have completed their Dawn Wall free climb in Yosemite, garnering attention and congratulations from many corners of the world. Last week they were halfway up the
SF News Two Men Are Halfway Up A Historic Yosemite Climb And Tweeting All The Way Right now, two human beings are climbing up a half mile of smooth granite. Kevin Jorgeson, 30, and Tommy Caldwell, 36, are halfway up the Dawn Wall, which extends 3,000 feet above
SF News Woman Who Allegedly Vandalized Eight National Parks Publicly Named As Prime Suspect There's an update in the case of Casey Nocket, the horrible artist/attention whore who vandalized a slew of national parks and Instagrammed the whole thing. As Reuters reports, Nocket has now been
