Yosemite — More Beautiful than the Himalayas?

Al Aistrope at Tuolumne Meadows. Photo 2011 by Barbara Falconer Newhall

That’s Al, barely visible between trees and rock on the trail at Yosemite. Photo 2011 by Barbara Falconer Newhall

By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Is the Yosemite high country even more beautiful than the Himalayas?

My hiking pal Al Aistrope thinks so. [Read more...]

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At Tuolumne — Celebrating Getting Born

mountains and lake inyo national forest. Photo by Barbara Falconer Newhall

We spent one of our days at nearby Inyo National Forest. Photos by Barbara Falconer Newhall

By Barbara Falconer Newhall, with a little help from her friends

Barbara Falconer Newhall makes a snowball at Into. Photo by Al Aistrope.

Birthday hike in the snow at 10,000 feet. Last year's heavy snowfall still hadn't melted. Photo by Al Aistrope.

On my last birthday, in September, I had three wonderful days at Tuolumne Meadows and Inyo National Forest in the Sierra Nevada with two wonderful friends.

It was probably my best birthday ever — though there’s maybe some forgotten birthday back in my school days when I dressed up in a tafetta dress, put on my Sunday-best patent leather shoes, played pin the tail on the donkey and accepted wonderful gifts from my little girlfriends, also dressed up  in tafetta and patent leather.

We were pretty, surely. But Tuolumne [Read more...]

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