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    Re: Report on Yosemite Valley today

    Quote Originally Posted by Drew Wiley View Post
    It never was on Indian land, so was legally ambiguous to begin with. That's a tiny tiny rancheria. So Trump deliberately gave it too big a footprint (including parking), that it had to be on his own private property adjacent, and required the Chukchansi to lease the thing from him, at obviously little net profit to them. I knew something was fishy back when somebody was buying up all the land around it. But he's lost money on most of these gigs. Can't compete with the big Casinos like Table Mtn. I don't know how many Chukchansi are still left. But at least they're not a totally fictitious band like some. One of the very few potentially remaining ones I went to school with, and I'd sometimes run into him in the high country when he was leading pack trains for the Cunningham outfit. Little tiny guy on a huge horse. His cowboy hat was almost bigger than he was. I ran cross-country with him, along with a couple of guys now technically classified as part of the North Fork tribe, both of whom are doing well. One of them got his phD and has since opened a little day school up there to try to keep
    the dialect alive, as well as get down in writing some of last of the native lore. Every little village up there had a slightly differing dialect, or radically different if
    you compare Paiute-extracted Monache bands to either Central Valley Yokuts or the Miwok around Yosemite. The Monache were aggressive and virtually wiped
    out some of the earlier foothills Yokuts. It's very difficult to say when they migrated over the top. I'm think it might have been given a boost back when the
    southwest was hit by prolonged droughts in the 1200's or whatever. Hard to say what was happening in the Great Basin per se. But apart from Mono Lk, food was always a lot more abundant on the western slope of the Sierra, including tons of salmon, lots of acorns. Then sometime relatively late, probably in the 1700's, there seems to have been a huge population explosion among the Monache, only a century or so before anglo contact. The Spanish never messed with
    them - they learned that lesson the hard way. There was a tiny Spanish outpost in the lower foothills. But I'll never publicly post its exact location.
    Was that Spanish outpost connected with the Spanish gold mine?
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    Re: Report on Yosemite Valley today

    No. It was a mission-adjunct in the mid-eighteenth century, a long ways from backup. It's a sensitive location, already unwittingly built over. There are still a
    few surviving remnants of an adjacent Yokuts village. The kind of people who now own the property would no doubt bulldoze everything and deliberately destroy it all if they had the least suspicion there was something of archaelological interest on their land. That's how things are done. The principal individual, possibly now deceased, was the prime mover n' shaker in the local real estate scene, who had a dubious reputation in general, and was once the predominant force in trying to secede from the state as well as prevent completion of Hwy 168. He quieted down a bit after narrowly avoiding prison after getting caught in an embezzlement scheme. But I shouldn't really leave any more bread crumbs as clues, because it gets even more stereotypically ugly from there on in terms of
    hillbilly customs and bailouts from equally questionable parties. Fresno County, as usual.

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    Re: Report on Yosemite Valley today

    Yosemite rangers in action!
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    Re: Report on Yosemite Valley today

    Yesterday was the first day that the Yosemite Falls cam showed no water coming over the upper falls.

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    Re: Report on Yosemite Valley today

    Quote Originally Posted by Preston View Post
    Sounds like an interesting and fun time, Vaughn!

    Just a note for you Sierra junkies...Tioga, Sonora, and Ebbets passes are currently closed due to snow. NWS forecasts are calling for chances of snow up high into the next week. As of this writing, there's been no info on when the passes might open. If I hear anything, I'll holler.

    I sure am glad I have my multi-agency Geezer pass! That little card has saved me a bundle!

    --P
    My Geezer pass is 31 years old. You can imagine how much it has saved me in all those years.

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    Re: Report on Yosemite Valley today

    2 children were killed last night in Yosemite, when a large oak tree limb fell on their tent, tragic.
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    Re: Report on Yosemite Valley today

    Tuolumne Meadows campground closed due to the Plague.
    http://abc30.com/news/tuolumne-meado...plague/930646/
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    Re: Report on Yosemite Valley today

    Quote Originally Posted by dsphotog View Post
    2 children were killed last night in Yosemite, when a large oak tree limb fell on their tent, tragic.
    This was at the Upper Pines campground. So sad.
    "I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"---EB White

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