Image via Wikipedia The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article on John Muir, his first ascent of Cathedral Peak in 1869, and the recent exhibit in the Yosemite Museum called “Granite Frontiers: A Century of Yosemite Climbing.” Muir was Yosemite’s first climbing bum — ...

Hans Florine and Yuji Hiriyama broke their own speed record on The Nose, El Capitan in Yosemite by 6 minutes recording a new time of 2:37:05 on Sunday, October 12. The Nose, which celebrates its 50 anniversary this year, is one of the world’s most famous rock climbs and was first ascended over...

Hans Florine and Yuji Hirayama set new speed record on the Nose, El Capitan, Yosemite Results of the lead-climbing competition in China Yosemite Museum at Yosemite National Park is featuring new exhibit dedicated to rock climbing Bill to ban bisphenol-A (BPA) was introduced to Congress Nau purchased...

Sometimes, when I’m picking a photo for Photo of the Day, I’ll make up a title to go along with the picture if it only has a camera assigned image number. Today it was too hard. What would I title it? Beautiful Lake? Really Blue Sky? Awesome Photo? Awesome photo works. Hey Angela, awesom...

This past weekend, Zac and I successfully climbed and summited Cathedral Peak. This was the 4th time I’ve tried Cathedral, the 2nd time I’ve been successful, and the 1st time I’ve pulled it off without any disaster. (hmm..power of 2 pattern emerging there) The trip went perfectly&#...

The Yosemite Museum is currently hosting a superb exhibit on the history of climbing at the park. Yosemite’s textured granite and die-hard climbers have made the park one of the world’s premier destinations for this sport. Many innovations were developed during Camp 4 bull-sessions. In addition ...

Today’s Photo of the Day is a beautiful shot of Tioga Lake Tony Immoos got while driving up Tioga Pass. Here’s what Tony had to say” Driving up the Tioga Pass road at 5:30 AM I had to turn back at Ellery Lake. It was snowing so hard I couldn’t see the road. An hour and a half...

Recently word got out that Canada was halting the sale of plastic bottles that contained BPA (Bisphenol-A).This was followed by WalMart pulling their inventory. The concern is that the chemical used in plastic baby bottles and other uses was thought to leech out when heated, and is a potential carci...

Joe Powell posted 2 really great photos (here’s the other) and I had a really hard time choosing which would be today’s Photo of the Day but in the end I really liked how the horizontal framing created a feeling of openness and space. Great shot Joe. Nicely done. Photo by Joe Powell via ...

Robert J. Samuelson [op-ed, April 30], like the Bush administration, thinks the solution to our energy problems is more drilling to increase petroleum production....