According to our good friend Jeffrey Trust at Yosemite NPS, plowing has begun on Tioga Pass Road.  Unfortunately, they haven’t issued a report yet.  Hopefully reports will soon be posted online.  You can follow along here: Tioga Pass Road plowing update page Be sure to bookmark it, and visit often!

Are you aching to get over to the other side of the Sierra Nevada like I am? Where will you go on your first trip of the year over Tioga Pass?

If you use Twitter, you might want to add @JeffreyTrust to your follow-list.

Late afternoon light on the face of Half Dome. Taken from the parking lot at Curry Village on January 2, 2010.

November 13, 2009. Light snowfall on the rims of Yosemite Valley the previous night dust the trees beyond the nose of El Capitan.

Aspen foliage at the top of Lee Vining Canyon, just outside Yosemite National Park.

Night climbers on Cathedral Peak and me with a front row seat.

Brilliant red ground cover and rust-stained granite at Lower Cathedral Lake. I’ve found fall colors, but instead of in the trees, it was at my feet.

Geology Hut, Glacier Point.

Shot from an inlet pond at Lower Cathedral Lake meadow.

Half Dome at Dusk from Glacier Point Road.