Yosemite Falls and the Merced River. The Mist Trail also offers connections to Half Dome, from which you can scale steel cables to climb to the rock's summit, one of the most challenging hikes in ...

The family visited Yosemite annually and Caldwell soon ... The timelapse below illustrates the sheer scale of the climb. Caldwell and Honnold’s latest adventure took them 2,600 miles from ...

Kessler: No. He’s in Virginia, but actually I met him in Yosemite climbing. We were both camping illegally at ... So we’re just trying to fit doing as much in a big scale within a long period of time ...

Perhaps most importantly for the savvy Massachusetts explorer, spring break timing means you’ll miss both the summer crowds ...

Nestled in the southeastern part of the Show-Me State, where the ancient St. Francois Mountains roll gently across the ...

Other employees have taken buyouts or retired. “I’m glad there’s a reservation system,” Ken Yager, president of the Yosemite Climbing Association, told SFGATE in a phone interview.

We reveal how the crux impacts the overall grade of a route and consider famous examples from climbing history ...

Ken Yager, who’s lived in Yosemite since 1976 and runs the Yosemite Climbing Museum in Mariposa, told SFGATE that one of the most significant issues is the extra drive time, for both park ...

Yosemite National Park has been dealing with overcrowding issues for decades, according to National Park Service officials. In 1980, Yosemite welcomed 2 million visitors. By 1996, that number had ...

A main entrance to Yosemite Park in California is closed due to a rockslide, and motorists are asked to take alternate routes, according to officials. It isn't unusual for roads to close at ...