TO COOL OFF. IF YOU’VE NEVER VISITED THIS PART OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, YOU’RE NOT ALONE. PREVIOUS STATISTICS SUGGEST BARELY 1% OF YOSEMITE VISITORS VENTURE HERE TO THIS SPOT, A SPOT SO STRIKINGLY ...

We lost, but the much bigger loss was nature's."Spearheaded by a group called Restore Hetch Hetchy, an effort is under way to collect enough signatures to put the issue of whether to conduct a study ...

This was April 18, 1906. The next day, three San Francisco newspapers -- the Call, the Chronicle and the Examiner -- published a joint edition. Its front page carried this top headline: "Earthquake ...

The water was winning. Fed by the heaviest Sierra snowmelt in decades, it gushed down the narrow valley’s walls and rushed across the trail in front of me. The bravest and most foolish hikers plunged ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (KFSN) -- Sometimes, taking the road less traveled can lead to the greatest reward. Spreck Rosekrans would tell you that's the case with Hetch Hetchy, the only area in ...

A 5-mile trail (round-trip) leads from the Hetch Hetchy Valley’s O’Shaughnessy Dam to Wapama Falls in Yosemite National Park. Christopher Reynolds/Los Angeles Times/TNS The water was winning. Fed by ...

About a mile down the trail to Wapama Falls within Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park, we stop and consider our route ahead. In front of us, a cataract of white water gushes down the ...

A 5-mile trail (round-trip) leads from the Hetch Hetchy Valley's O'Shaughnessy Dam to Wapama Falls in Yosemite National Park. The route skirts the edge of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. (Christopher ...