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JohnC88

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I live in SoCal which allows me the opportunity to visit Yosemite quite often. I make an annual spring trip and camp in the valley. I try to make winter trips just as the storms clear but it's quite the challenge to time it right and not have traffic/weather problems. The park is always beautiful but I truly love winter when you can capture the snow and have the park pretty much to yourself.

Here are a couple of my favorites...

This one is from the edge of Glacier Point...

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This is probably one of my all time favorites taken at Cathedral Beach one winter. I especially like it because Frans Lanting did a 4 minute review of it on Creative Live and he couldn't stop complementing it. (Yes, I have the video of him reviewing it. :) )

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JohnC88 said:
... The park is always beautiful but I truly love winter when you can capture the snow and have the park pretty much to yourself. ...
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Yosemite is a very special place. Back in the late 1980s-to-early 1990s, my job had me in Sacramento and Merced quite a bit, and I was fortunate to spend many weekends at Yosemite. My favorite time to vist the park was, and is, during the winter, especially during or after a good snowfall.

Your Cathedral Beach shot is exceptionally nice, almost perfect in fact. I can see why Franz would go on about it so.
 
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Whiskeyman said:
Yosemite is a very special place. Back in the late 1980s-to-early 1990s, my job had me in Sacramento and Merced quite a bit, and I was fortunate to spend many weekends at Yosemite. My favorite time to vist the park was, and is, during the winter, especially during or after a good snowfall.

Your Cathedral Beach shot is exceptionally nice, almost perfect in fact. I can see why Franz would go on about it so.
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Thank you. I really love the winter there as well. I've been fortunate enough to have made multiple winter trips just as the storms finish. You really do have to time it right to capture snow still hanging from the trees and icicles hanging from the buildings. You usually only have a half day before the snow starts melting and dropping quickly.

It's been a few years. I'm hoping this winter will give me another opportunity to get back.
 
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JohnC88 said:
I live in SoCal which allows me the opportunity to visit Yosemite quite often. I make an annual spring trip and camp in the valley. I try to make winter trips just as the storms clear but it's quite the challenge to time it right and not have traffic/weather problems. The park is always beautiful but I truly love winter when you can capture the snow and have the park pretty much to yourself.

Here are a couple of my favorites...

This one is from the edge of Glacier Point...

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This is probably one of my all time favorites taken at Cathedral Beach one winter. I especially like it because Frans Lanting did a 4 minute review of it on Creative Live and he couldn't stop complementing it. (Yes, I have the video of him reviewing it. :) )

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Absolutely great shot!
 
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JohnC88 said:
I live in SoCal which allows me the opportunity to visit Yosemite quite often. I make an annual spring trip and camp in the valley. I try to make winter trips just as the storms clear but it's quite the challenge to time it right and not have traffic/weather problems. The park is always beautiful but I truly love winter when you can capture the snow and have the park pretty much to yourself.

Here are a couple of my favorites...

This one is from the edge of Glacier Point...

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This is probably one of my all time favorites taken at Cathedral Beach one winter. I especially like it because Frans Lanting did a 4 minute review of it on Creative Live and he couldn't stop complementing it. (Yes, I have the video of him reviewing it. :) )

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Beautiful images!
 
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John, these are great images. I've only been to Yosemite a couple of times and never in the winter. How hard is it to get lodging in the park that time of year?
 
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PhilG said:
John, these are great images. I've only been to Yosemite a couple of times and never in the winter. How hard is it to get lodging in the park that time of year?
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Thank you.

Not difficult if you avoid the holidays or Horsetail Fall weekends. But I always stay in El Portal at either the Yosemite View Lodge or Yosemite Cedar Lodge. It’s a short drive in and prices are much lower than inside the park. You can easily book the day before you go.
 
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JohnC88 said:
Thank you.

Not difficult if you avoid the holidays or Horsetail Fall weekends. But I always stay in El Portal at either the Yosemite View Lodge or Yosemite Cedar Lodge. It’s a short drive in and prices are much lower than inside the park. You can easily book the day before you go.
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I stayed in the park both times I went, but that was May and June, when it was really busy. I gather getting into the park in the winter isn't the headache it is in summer - correct?
 
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PhilG said:
I stayed in the park both times I went, but that was May and June, when it was really busy. I gather getting into the park in the winter isn't the headache it is in summer - correct?
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That’s correct. You’re required to carry chains but generally if you have AWD you won’t need to put the chains on.

I don’t know where you’re coming from but I would only recommend coming in via 140 as the elevation never exceeds 3,000 feet. Other routes (120 or 41) can reach 5-6k in elevation and require putting on chains.
 
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JohnC88 said:
That’s correct. You’re required to carry chains but generally if you have AWD you won’t need to put the chains on.

I don’t know where you’re coming from but I would only recommend coming in via 140 as the elevation never exceeds 3,000 feet. Other routes (120 or 41) can reach 5-6k in elevation and require putting on chains.
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Thanks for the information. I'm in Colorado, so that time of year I'd fly over west of Yosemite and rent a car. Getting my wife to agree to visit in the winter would be the problem.
 
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PhilG said:
Thanks for the information. I'm in Colorado, so that time of year I'd fly over west of Yosemite and rent a car. Getting my wife to agree to visit in the winter would be the problem.
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It really doesn't snow that often in Yosemite Valley which is only 4,000 FT elevation. So most of the time the drive in and out is not a problem.
 
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JohnC88 said:
It really doesn't snow that often in Yosemite Valley which is only 4,000 FT elevation. So most of the time the drive in and out is not a problem.
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I'd like to be there after it had snowed. I liked your second photo with the snow present, and I've seen other Yosemite winter photos I really liked. Once it snows, does it take a while to dissipate. Where I live the snow can burn off in a day or two if it isn't heavy. I'll stop asking questions after this - its late.
 
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