High Country and High Sierra Camps
Some of my favorite places in Yosemite are on the High Sierra Loop trip through the High Sierra camps: Tuolumne, Glen Aulin, May Lake, Sunrise, Merced Lake, and Vogelsang. Here's a brief photo tour of some of the sights from the camps and trails along the way in the order of the seven day loop trip.
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Pacific chorus frog. All species of frogs in Yosemite have catastrophically crashed in numbers, racing towards extinction and many have already gone locally extinct. This species breeds readily in a wide range of habitats, undergoes metamorphosis in a matter of weeks and is so terrestrial that it can quickly disperse. As a result, its numbers have remained stronger than any other species of frog or toad. However its also disappearing incredibly quickly as a result of pesticides blowing in from the Central Valley, non native species and disease, thinning ozone layer (and increased UV radiation), global warming, acid precipitation to name a few.