2000 Yosemite Institute Field Trip album

2000 Yosemite Institute Field Trip Album

(-Most photographs by Michael Diggles)

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Sunday

We gathered at school, loaded the bus, and headed for Yosemite Valley where we checked in at Camp Curry.

Loading bus (picture #0011N-05)

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First view of Yosemite Valley (picture #0011N-18)

Bridalvale Falls (picture #0011N-19)

Yosemite Falls (picture #0011N-20)

Kids and gear getting off the bus at Camp Curry (picture #0011N-21)

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Curry kids (picture #0011N-23)

Monday

Our first day with YI; we met our naturalists and our different hiking groups spent the day in various Valley-floor sites.

Ranger Dave (AKA "Danger Rave") (picture #0011N-28)

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Nangas and his walking staff (North Dome and Washington Column) behind Scho-ko-ni (Royal Arches) (picture #0011N-30)

Dave and Tis-sa-ack (Half Dome) (picture #0011N-32)

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Teaching about milkweed (picture #0011N-36)

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Sugar Pine Bridge on the Merced River (picture #0011P-08)

Let's see how cold the water is. We did this for 60 seconds. (picture #0011P-10)

How many children does it take to reach all the way around the Sugarpine? This is the largest Sugarpine in Yosemite Valley. (picture #0011P-12)

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Reconstructing the size of the tree (seven children) (picture #0011P-20)

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Students near Indian Cave (picture #0011P-22)

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Indian Caves (picture #0011P-27)

"Holding up" Indian Cave (where we played "Two truths and a lie") (picture #0011P-28)

OK, now line up in order of hair length (picture #0011P-29)

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Before "Each One Teach One" (picture #0011P-33)

Working on plant lists together (picture #0011P-34)

After this student banged her knee, Mike got to carry her. She felt better after she borrowed Mike's hand-carved frog (picture #0011P-35)

Hand-carved Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog, by Sandra Healy. The legs are only yellow on the bottoms

Dave teaching at Mirror Lake, now more like "Mirror Meadow;" the natural progression. (picture #0011P-36)

A mile later, she is cheering up and Michael is wearing down (picture #0011Q-01)

Tuesday

I missed this day because I had to go home to work on the election board. The challenge for the day was climbing through Spider Cave.

Wednesday

This was the day we took the bus to Glacier Point and, after a get-it-out-of-your-system snowball fight, hiked down the Four Mile Trail back to the Valley.

Wednesday morning at Yosemite Lodge (picture #0011Q-04)

The Acorn-Whistling Timber Wolves (picture #0011Q-11)

Here's an acorn whistle whence came that part of the name

Ham-mo (Lost Arrow) (picture #0011Q-19)

Glacier Point kids (picture #0011Q-32)

Show me what you have in your hands (picture #0011Q-33)

Snowball fight (picture #0011R-04)

Snowball fight (picture #0011R-05)

Snowball fight (picture #0011R-09)

Snowball fight (picture #0011R-11)

Snowball fight (picture #0011R-12)

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Snowball fight (picture #0011R-14)

Snowball fight (picture #0011R-17)

Snowball fight (picture #0011R-18)

Snowball fight, Dave (picture #0011R-19)

Brittany. Snowball fights make for cold hands (by the way, to "level the playing field," no gloves were allowed) (picture #0011R-20)

Snowball fight (picture #0011R-21)

Snowball fight (picture #0011R-22)

Snowball fight (she nailed the photographer really well) (picture #0011R-26)

Snowball fight (picture #0011R-28)

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After the snowball fight (picture #0011R-32)

Dave explains the glacial history of Yosemite Valley (picture #0011S-05)

Working on her checklist (picture #0011S-07)

Student with her journal. She writes: "Landforms: 1. Half Dome - I think it got its name because it used to be a dome, but some of it fell off creating Half Dome. It started out as a glac..." (picture #0011S-09)

Student with her journal at the stone geology-exhibit overlook. The stones from which these walls were constructed are from different granitic rock units that crop out in Yosemite (picture #0011S-10)

Student fetching her dropped pencil (picture #0011S-12)

Valley view; Yosemite Creek to the north across Yosemite Valley (picture #0011S-13)

Four-Mile-Trail (picture #0011S-18)

Four-Mile-Trail (picture #0011S-19)

Four-Mile-Trail (picture #0011S-20)

Four-Mile-Trail (picture #0011S-22)

Olla (Sentinal Rock) (picture #0011S-26)

Valley rays (picture #0011S-33)

Valley view; Tul-tok-a-nu-la (El Capitan) on the left and Poo-see-na-chuc-ka-(Cathedral Rocks) on the right. (picture #0011T-03)

Thursday

We moved from the Valley to Wawona for the next two days. Our learning subjects shifted from rocks to forests.

Danger Rave (picture #0011T-08)

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"Four Million Five..." (picture #0011T-13)

The LOD (Leader Of the Day) (picture #0011T-14)

Trio (picture #0011T-15)

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Catching snowflakes (picture #0011T-22)

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Race To The Sun (picture #0011T-26)

Infestation (picture #0011T-27)

Becky (picture #0011T-33)

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Rosey; too many earlier campers taught her the bad habit of getting people food. (picture #0011U-02)

Friday

After some time in the morning to learn about habitats (and how to stay warm while it snowed), we loaded up and headed for home.

Playing Woogies and Kiwis; predators and prey in encroaching habitat. (picture #0011U-25)

Annie with Gary Larson's book (picture #0011U-26)

Loading the bus home (picture #0011U-27)

Packing up at Camp Wawona (picture #0011U-28)

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Photographs of adult-child pairs and groups

I was "assigned" the task of getting photos of chaperones and their children. This is the collection of those and similar group shots.

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Parting shot

Snow closed the road to the Wawona Big Trees and the exit route on Highway 41 so we used chains or 4WD and headed home via the Valley and Oakdale. The clouds had pretty well socked in Yosemite by this time but I've never stopped at this place and not taken a picture. Each one is fun no mater what the weather. We'll all be back other years for more.

Back at the "view" of the Valley from outside the Wawona Tunnel. Michael and some of "his" kids(picture #0011U-35)

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