{"id":6242,"date":"2011-12-12T09:28:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T16:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=6242"},"modified":"2011-12-12T09:28:25","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T16:28:25","slug":"yosemite-more-beautiful-than-the-himalayas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/yosemite-more-beautiful-than-the-himalayas\/","title":{"rendered":"Yosemite — More Beautiful than the Himalayas?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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That’s Al, barely visible between trees and rock on the trail at Yosemite. Photo by Barbara\u00a0 Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Is the Yosemite high country even more beautiful than the Himalayas?<\/p>\n

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My hiking pal Al Aistrope thinks so.<\/p>\n

The Himalayas’ claim to fame, of course, is all those high, spectacularly high, mountain peaks.<\/p>\n

Yosemite, on the other hand, abounds in beautiful sights, large and small — rocks, trees, wildflowers, river beds, meadows and <\/em>mountains.<\/p>\n

Al knows whereof he speaks. He spends a lot of time in Nepal.\u00a0Right now he’s in Katmandu, where he looks after orphans through his program Virtue’s Children Nepal. He’ll be having Christmas dinner with them.<\/p>\n

Some day I’ll have to ask\u00a0Al how his charity got that name. It’s probably something about the amazing loyalty and generosity Al\u00a0has observed over the years\u00a0among the orphan children he’s met there.<\/p>\n

You can see Al in this picture. He’s very tiny between the rocks and the trees. For a closer look at Al, go to the Virtue’s Children Nepal website.<\/p>\n

For more Sierra Nevada pix check out this earlier pos<\/a>t.<\/p>\n

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There were so many wildflowers growing at Tuolemne Meadows last summer after the previous winter’s heavy snows that I can’t begin to identify this tiny beauty. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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