Glacier Point Road

April 30th, 2008 Author: Steven

This is from the Yosemite News Release site:

Date: April 29, 2008

Yosemite National Park Superintendent Mike Tollefson announced today that the Glacier Point Road is expected to open to visitors Friday, May 2, 2008 at noon. Glacier Point is located about 30 miles from Yosemite Valley off the Wawona Road, the section of State Highway 41 inside the park. Restrooms along the road and the Glacier Point Snack Stand will be open to visitors on Friday as well. Additionally, the Mariposa Grove Road opened on April 26, 2008 for vehicles under 24 feet in length and under 7 tons. These temporary restrictions are due to continuing wet and icy conditions on the road.

No date has been determined for the opening of Bridalveil Creek Campground.

Roadways may be wet due to ice and melting snow and wildlife is very active on the Glacier Point Road. Visitors are advised to drive with caution.

An opening date for the Tioga Road (Highway 120 outside the park) which crosses the Sierra Nevada through Yosemite National Park, has yet to be determined.

Tioga Plowing Report

April 30th, 2008 Author: Steven

They are now beyond the Olmsted Point avalanche zone and are 29 miles from the Crane Flat gate.

The Glacier Point road is tentatively scheduled to open on May 2.

Tioga Pass Plowing

April 29th, 2008 Author: Steven

The plowing updates aren’t coming very fast this year, but at least we’re getting some.
The latest report is dated the 26th, it says that they are now at Olmsted Point and the snow depth is 6 feet. Looks like they made good progress last week. They are now into the bad avalanche areas, so things may slow down a bit this week.

Opening Day

April 27th, 2008 Author: Steven

From what I’m reading online, it sounds like it was a decent opening day of fishing in the Eastern Sierra. The weather was about as nice as it could get, which is always a good thing on opening day. Sounds like a lot of trout were caught and I’m sure good times were had by all.

Here are a couple articles that I’ve found this morning.

Perfect conditions greet anglers at trout opener

Fishing hot on trout opener, even on ice

I’ve also found a pretty cool site that will be helpful to many fishermen out there this year.
Performance Anglers in Mammoth has a nice site that has video fishing reports of the Eastern Sierra. I’m going to keep my eyes on the site and let you guys know when a new report is up.

Here is the link to the site: Performance Anglers Video Fishing Report

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