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Huntington Lake summer fun drying up in California drought
Posted by LA Times: Diana Marcum on July 12th, 2014
LA Times: The water dropped another 2 feet the week of Don Winters' vacation.
Huntington Lake was at about a third of its normal level.
An island in the middle of the lake - a mini-hilltop of wildflowers that in other summers he'd paddled to in a canoe - was connected to shore by a bridge of land. It was a quick stroll from the new shoreline, now in the middle of where there used to be water.
But Winters, 65, never considered canceling his High Sierra vacation because of three years of California...
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Comments Off on Huntington Lake summer fun drying up in California droughtUnited States: A flaky winter in Yosemite
Posted by LA Times: Diana Marcum on January 28th, 2012
LA Times: Reporting from Yosemite National Park -- Winter in the high country is usually a season of icy quiet. Birds leave, bears hibernate, and only a few hardy people on skis or snowshoes pass through en route to snow-covered granite domes.
But Christmas and New Year's Day came and went, then Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, and still only auburn pine needles covered the ground. Chattering squirrels, normally tucked away in their winter nests, perched on top of "Snow Play Area" signs, with no snow...