Tag: Yosemite National Park

by James Murren 16 October 2024 Number of comments0
California Mountains Travel

Earn Your Beer Rafting the Tuolumne River

My latest Earn Your Beer installment for the series/column with Adventure Sports Journal is about rafting the Wild and ScenicContinue Reading

by James Murren 23 March 2021 Number of comments0
California Libations Mountains

Earn Your Beer: A Classic Yosemite Hike and South Gate Brewing

The latest installment of my Earn Your Beer column is out now in the 20th Anniversary edition of Adventure SportsContinue Reading

by James Murren 11 December 2019 Number of comments0
California Libations Mountains

Earn Your Beer: Dewey Point

Out now in issue #112 of Adventure Sports Journal is my latest Earn Your Beer column. This time around itContinue Reading

by James Murren 14 November 2019 Number of comments0
California Mountains Photos

Give Me Trees, Please

One of favorite things is a tree, any tree, doesn’t matter size or shape or color, simply give me aContinue Reading

by James Murren 13 November 2019 Number of comments0
California Mountains

Mirror-less Lake Reflection

Mirror Lake was without water, the mirror not reflecting. Nevertheless, reflection still occurred. After reflecting, I walked away. A male/femaleContinue Reading

by James Murren 07 December 2018 Number of comments0
California Mountains

Bobcat on the Hunt: Mist Trail, Yosemite

I saw the little one on the Mist Trail, surprised that it, too, was hiking up to see the falls: Continue Reading

by James Murren 09 November 2018 Number of comments0
California Mountains

Mariposa Grove, Walkin’ on a Country Road

A few hours in the recently re-opened Mariposa Grove in Yosemite National Park was highlighted by the fact that theContinue Reading

by James Murren 07 November 2018 Number of comments0
California Mountains Poetry

To Be a Leaf

wouldn’t you like to be a leaf falling from a tree in october to feel the flutter and float, mid-airContinue Reading

by James Murren 26 September 2018 Number of comments0
California Mountains

Snowshoeing Yosemite’s Dewey Point out now in Snowshoe Magazine

A piece I wrote for Snowshoe Magazine on snowshoeing to Dewey Point in Yosemite National Park: https://www.snowshoemag.com/2018/09/26/yosemites-dewey-point-via-the-ridge-trail/  

by James Murren 11 April 2018 Number of comments0
California Mountains

Morteros at Yosemite Falls

A guy on a bike said to others on their bikes:  if you climb up on that boulder over there,Continue Reading

by James Murren 06 April 2018 2
California Mountains

Yosemite Tunnel View: 29 March 2018

Despite all the people and vehicles, stopping to take in the view from the tunnel is worth it every time:Continue Reading

by James Murren 05 April 2018 Number of comments0
California

Snowshoeing Yosemite

It’s something I’ve wanted to experience for a while–Yosemite in winter–but I was a little too late this time around,Continue Reading

by James Murren 31 October 2017 Number of comments0
California Mountains

Sentinel Dome and Glacier Point Musings

The skies are smoky, prescribed burns needed to manage the forest. For who?   Is there anywhere that is untouchedContinue Reading

by James Murren 30 October 2017 Number of comments0
California Mountains

Fall Morning in Yosemite Valley

I woke and made a round through the valley in the chill of upper 30s F temperatures.  There was veryContinue Reading

by James Murren 26 October 2017 Number of comments0
California MTB

There is Grandeur

I walked on past the topside of Nevada Falls and on to the John Muir Trail.  Looking back, I stoppedContinue Reading

by James Murren 24 October 2017 Number of comments0
California Mountains

Yosemite’s Nevada Falls and Liberty Cap

I continued on, getting a few views of Nevada Falls along the climb to the top, the switchbacks being anContinue Reading