

Today’s guest blogger, REI employee Ching Fu, recounts the soaring highs and chilly lows of her bike tour of the entire Skyline Drive and Blue Ridge Parkway last summer: It had been raining for 3 days straight, and I was ready to just be home. But I had to keep pedaling. The bitter cold rain was an unwelcome surprise, especially since it was July in the southeast... ...
Items of interest involving Yosemite National Park, a personal fave, for this weekend: 1. Permits for climbing Half Dome in August will be available starting Sunday (May 1) at 10 a.m. ET/7 a.m. PT. While 400 permits are available for each day in August, expect the permits (which carry a nonrefundable $1.50 processing fee) to be gone in minutes. To try to get one, the website to visit is Recreation.gov. A previous REI Blog post explains all the details. Earlier this month the Sacramento Bee ...
Posted by T.D. Wood on April 29, 2011 7:55 PM & Tagged Half Dome, Yosemite, mist trail and national parks | permalink | Comments
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