Half Dome – Yosemite Musings

Today we talk about a great Yosemite resource called, appropriately, “Yosemite Online.” The website is <here>.  Major topics covered include an awesome library of on-line books, notice of Exhibits, a handy lodging guide and a great discussion group. What attracted me were the digitized copies of some hard-to-find Yosemite manuscripts. I first found the Bible: Lafayette Bunnell’s “Discovery of the Yosemite.”  Then J.D.Whitney's 1869 book "The Yosemite Book." This site is put together by a private citizen – a lover of Yosemite, Dan Anderson. Dan is a software engineer at my alma mater, Sun Microsystems. He diddles computer bits in his spare time. In this age of assuming than all human knowledge on Google -it’s not- , we all owe Dan a tip of the hat for his efforts to digitize works that Google hasn’t gotten to yet. Give his site  a try, it’ll keep you warm on a rainy night!

Unrelated thought worth quoting: “You're pushin' too hard, pushin' on me. You're pushin' too hard, what you want me to be. You're pushin' too hard about the things you say. You're pushin' too hard every night and day.” – The Seeds

*Carpe Diem Experience– Rick Deutsch–www.HikeHalfDome.com*