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4 days ago · John Muir (born April 21, 1838, Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland—died December 24, 1914, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, writer, and advocate of U.S. forest conservation, who was largely responsible for the establishment of Sequoia National Park and Yosemite National Park, which are located in California.
2 days ago · John Muir’s Legacy. No one continues to be more associated with the creation and expansion of national parks than John Muir. Loser though he was in the battle over San Francisco’s appropriation of Hetch Hetchy, he continued, long after his death in 1914, to influence public thinking and the conservation movement.
3 days ago · Stretching more than 200 miles through the Sierra Nevada, the John Muir Trail (Nüümü Poyo) is known for high-altitude sun exposure, hungry mosquitoes, and unforgiving vert over 11 mountain passes. The good news is that the trail’s gem-colored alpine lakes, soaring High Sierra peaks, and tight-knit trail camaraderie are well worth its challenges.
4 days ago · At the top of my list is the John Muir Trail: a stretch of breathtakingly beautiful, rugged terrain that I’d almost surgically excised from my 1987 trip when I left the Sierras at Mount Whitney and rejoined them at Tuolomne Meadows.
3 days ago · John Muir, conocido como el Padre de los Parques Nacionales, expresó su profunda admiración por este santuario a través de sus escritos y su defensa apasionada de la conservación.
4 days ago · The John Muir Trail snow report is designed to aid hikers in determining the best time to head into the mountains based on snow conditions. Each hikers skill-set and comfort level with these conditions will differ. The John Muir Trail snow report uses SNODAS modeled snow data.
1 day ago · July 7, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. Energetic summertime visitors may want to visit Muir Woods by hiking to it, or perhaps you do, too. Our vigorous 6-mile loop hike from Pantoll on Mount Tamalpais, down ...
