*BEST GUIDEBOOK OF 2008 (Outdoor Writers of CA)
*2009 LOWELL THOMAS AWARD WINNER
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A guidebook worth reading. Like a treasure map. The Best Book on the Region!
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Chap. 5: New Life for The Village Ghost Town
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p. 230: New Chef at Sequoia High Sierra Camp
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p. 196: Mono Inn Roadhouse Closed for 2008
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p. 181: Restaurant Lulu Packs up, Moves Back to SF
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p. 119: Glacier Lodge changes its web address
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Yosemite, the Southern Sierra Nevada & Death Valley Preview of 2010 Yosemite Outdoor Adventures Courses.
Source: www.yosemite.org
Experience an award winning program that offers classes and custom adventures that help you to learn more about Yosemite National Park.
Yosemite, the Southern Sierra Nevada & Death Valley Backcountry roads, campsites, cabins... New Death Valley Wilderness Stewardship Plan. Public comment thru 11/15.
Source: parkplanning.nps.gov
The National Park Service is initiating a combined Wilderness and Backcountry Stewardship Plan for Death Valley National Park. The purpose of this Wilderness and Backcountry Stewardship Plan is to guide ...
Yosemite, the Southern Sierra Nevada & Death Valley Mammoth opening (again). Too bad I'll be in Chiapas.
Source: www.mammothmountain.com
Mammoth is opening almost a week ahead of schedule, so make your plans to visit us this weekend. Its time to get in some early season turns, great times and enough of both to make your friends green ...
Yosemite, the Southern Sierra Nevada & Death Valley Meb Keflezighi on Mammoth (in the New Yorker): “There’s a lot of solitude there,” he said. “There’s a lot of loneliness."
Source: www.newyorker.com
Notes on the day by the staff of The New Yorker.
Source: www.theskichannel.com
Runner from Mammoth wins NYC Marathon
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Cuddling up with black bears? Lynn Rogers makes it look so easy. Was it just as easy for Donna Munson, before she got eaten? http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/1
Source: news.nationalgeographic.com
In the wilds of northern Minnesota, bear expert Lynn Rogers teaches participants at a "wild encounters" camp about bear language, manners, and lifestyle—all while getting up close and personal with wild black bears. Video.
Yosemite, the Southern Sierra Nevada & Death Valley Eek! Save the LeConte Memorial Lodge!
The Sierra Club-run LeConte Memorial Lodge, a National Historic Landmark, was built by the Sierra Club in 1903-04. The unique structure honors eminent University of California geologist Joseph LeConte...
Yosemite, the Southern Sierra Nevada & Death Valley Should travel writers accept freebies?
Source: thetravelersnotebook.com
How do publications' policies on what a writer can and can't accept for gifts or comps affect the integrity of travel writing—as well the writer's ability to earn a living?
THIS IS THE WAY OUR TIMES: A man falls asleep reading a fine account of the rise and fall of the American Newspaper (in words printed on paper, in a magazine), from Gold Rush San Francisco to an equally tenuous present...
Yosemite, the Southern Sierra Nevada & Death Valley What about a campaign to get LADWP and Obama to set aside the Owens Valley as a national monument? Any thoughts?
Source: www.lvrj.com
Momentum is building for the creation of a national monument in the northern Las Vegas Valley, one dedicated to the preservation of the fossilized remains of ice-age animals that roamed the area 200,000 years ago.
Yosemite, the Southern Sierra Nevada & Death Valley Why I'm over glossy travel mags... "Now, I'm down to just National Geographic Adventure," writes Sara Benson. "After their November 2009 issue's article on the supposed 25 best new trips in the world, I'm done with them, too."
Source: indietraveler.blogspot.com
California, United StatesI've been traveling around the U.S. West ever since I graduated from college in the '90s and first hopped on a plane to San Francisco with one suitcase and just $100 in my pocket. ...
Yosemite, the Southern Sierra Nevada & Death Valley
Just learned last night, by way of an email from Acapulco, that my Yosemite book got a bronze award in the guidebook category of the Lowell Thomas Awards, from the Society of American Travel Writers. And to top it off my buddy and fellow Mammoth local Christian Pondella scored a silver for one of his ice climbing shots... in Nat Geo Adventure.
"It is the premier competition in this field," says the SATW website, "like the Pulitzer Prizes for travel journalism."
I'm not sure they give bronze Pulitzers, but hey, I must say that my fleeting disappointment at not winning the gold was eased considerably--and then quickly replaced with an overwhelming sense of unworthiness--by the fact that the likes of Rolf Potts and Sebastian Junger had also, this year and last, respectively, been relegated to third place.
From what I can tell, I should get $150 out of it. Which is nice. If only I were sitting on the beach in Acapulco instead of contemplating the enormous pile of red fir rounds in the driveway, all of which need to be split or hauled under a roof before the next big early-season snowstorm hits--tonight!Read More
"It is the premier competition in this field," says the SATW website, "like the Pulitzer Prizes for travel journalism."
I'm not sure they give bronze Pulitzers, but hey, I must say that my fleeting disappointment at not winning the gold was eased considerably--and then quickly replaced with an overwhelming sense of unworthiness--by the fact that the likes of Rolf Potts and Sebastian Junger had also, this year and last, respectively, been relegated to third place.
From what I can tell, I should get $150 out of it. Which is nice. If only I were sitting on the beach in Acapulco instead of contemplating the enormous pile of red fir rounds in the driveway, all of which need to be split or hauled under a roof before the next big early-season snowstorm hits--tonight!Read More
Source: satwf.com
Faculty members of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication, coordinated by Monica Hill, judged the competition. There were 1,191 entries. In the following list of winners, numbers in parentheses denote number of entries in that category. ...
Yosemite, the Southern Sierra Nevada & Death Valley I'll be out there on the same old vintage gear. But hey, it sure is fun getting the kids dialed in. Even more fun than writing service journalism!
Source: matadorgoods.com
"The base layer will make or break the whole adventure. Don't cut corners and think you'll get away with those old school waffled-cotton long johns from the big box store."
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Last night to watch it for free at pbs.org... http://thetravelersnotebook.com/from-the
Source: thetravelersnotebook.com
It's a hell of a story. And for the following reasons (and more) it's one worth hearing, again and again.
