Where San Francisco's water supply comes from (it's delicious!)

Hetch-Hetchy reservoir in the northwestern part of Yosemite National Park. It's gorgeous and has far fewer people than the mainstream Yosemite areas.

(Yashica 124G, Portra 400, self-dev in Bellini kit and scanned on Fuji Frontier)

#California #Yosemite #HetchHetchy #Nature #Outside #Photography #FilmPhotography #MediumFormat

Other parts of #Yosemite, including Wawona, Mariposa Grove, #HetchHetchy, and Crane Flat will remain open. (Tioga Pass remains impassable with regular wintertime restrictions.) The #NationalPark Service has details. https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/faq.htm#flood (2/2)

Most of #Yosemite Valley will close to the public this Friday for several days because of risk of flooding along the Merced River.

Wawona, Mariposa Grove, #HetchHetchy and Crane Flat will remain open. (Tioga Pass is still amid a wintertime closure.)

#CaWx #BigMelt https://www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/article/yosemite-closing-friday-flooding-snow-17917815.php

“Nearly 100 years ago, men used hand tools and explosives to carve out a mammoth tunnel under the rolling green hills of #Tuolumne County to shuttle #water from the #HetchHetchy Reservoir to the fast-growing San Francisco metropolis.”

https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/hetch-hetchy-water-tunnel-17878821.php

It's time to reintroduce my environmental adventure, "The Environmeddlers."

I published this in 2010, to bring the story of environmental activism up to date, into the world of cell phones, computer algorithms and other assorted modern control systems.

It was fun to write, and I think, still fun to read.

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#EnvironmentalActivism #Monkwywrenching #HetchHetchy #EnvironmentalFiction

This mountain #railroad was built for hauling materials during the construction of the O’Shaughnessy dam at #HetchHetchy. The tracks are no longer there, but the grade on which they ran is still clearly visible as part of the the roadbed of Mather Rd. and in #CampMather itself. https://www.abandonedrails.com/hetch-hetchy-railroad

#HetchHetchy and #CampMather are well upstream of this stretch of the #Tuolumne River. The Hetch Hetchy and Don Pedro reservoirs both are part of the Tuolumne system and are brimming with water, even before the season’s coming snowmelt.

From: @Geotripper
https://sfba.social/@Geotripper/110018706320624762

#HetchHetchy fuller today than a year ago.

https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/11275500/#parameterCode=00054&period=P7D&compare=true

#water

A moment from Hetch Hetchy. #photography #fotografia #fotografie #landscape #landscapephotography #mountains #hetchhetchy #California #IsItSupposedToDoThat? #water #LauraCochranPhotography

#HetchHetchy #WaterfallWednesday

I wasn't expecting this to be a climbing video when I started watching it, I thought it was going to be about #RestoreHetchHetchy. I was not unhappy that it ended up being about climbing.

Watching it, I saw views of #HetchHetchy I'd never seen. It makes me really want to back country hike in there to capture some photos. In Yosemite Valley, all of the grand photos have been captured. Hetch Hetchy is a place where there are still new grand photos to be discovered.

https://vimeo.com/771124484