Originally Posted by
tgtaylor
I had planned on driving-up this past weekend to get a couple of negatives for a new project which will be all albumin silver prints. But the park service closed the road apparently in anticipation of the coming storm which wasn't expected until Tuesday of this week. Over the years I've noticed that the the park has become increasingly conservative, ridiculously so, in my opinion, of the travel restrictions it imposes during weather events. When I first started coming to Yosemite on a regular basis chains weren't required until an inch or two of snow had accumulated and you really needed chains. Now they make you put chains on when the asphalt is showing. Driving around on asphalt with chains is bad for the road, bad for the tires, and bad for the chains. One of the benefits of living relatively close by the park in the bay area is that you can drive to the park just ahead of the approaching storm, check into Curry, Pines or Camp 4, put on your chains and be ready to photograph first thing in the morning Now they want to roust you from your tent and make you move to the Ahwahnee or the Lodge. Sounds like a marketing conspiracy to me.
Thomas
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