Experience some of the best opportunities to cross country ski in California. Yosemite offers winter visitors access to the most beautiful vistas on earth. Take the kids cross country skiing and enjoy nearly 350 miles of trails and roads in the park. From tranquil snowy day-trips to overnight adventures, the novice and expert alike can create their perfect trip.
Beginning at Badger Pass there are over 90 miles of marked trails and 25 miles of machine-groomed track. Cross-country track and skating lanes are groomed from Badger Pass to Glacier Point(a 21-mile round trip), and a three-kilometer track is set to the scenic Old Badger Summit. Don't miss the 3 mile trip to Dewey
Point that offers spectacular views of Yosemite Valley.
The following information denotes length of trail one way.
Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias, elevation is 5,600'. The road into the grove is closed in the winter and it is about 3 miles into the lower grove on a ungroomed road.
This event usually happens mid to late February Badger Pass celebrates cross-country skiing each year with their fabulous Nordic Holiday Race. The two day event includes an 18K classic, downhill telemark and 38K free-style events.
Whether you're a competitive XC skier, or just someone who'd like to meet other XC skiers, stop by and join in the fun. Registration: $40 registration fee for all three races includes 1/2-day lift ticket and evening awards party Saturday Classic Race - a fun friendly 18K classic race, open to everyone, with a prize for best costume.
Race Registration: 8:30am - 10am Race Starts: 10:30am Telemark Race - Telemark through the gates for time. It's all down hill on this race, and the real goal is to have fun. Register ahead of time with the Race Organizers.
Race starts: in the afternoon on the NASTAR course. Sunday Glacier Point and Back "Freestyle" Race - 38km skate race to spectacular Glacier Point and back! Race Registration: 8 - 8:30am Race Starts: 9:00am
It was either 1976 or 1977 that there was so much snow in Yosmeite Valley that it was decided to have the Yosemite Nordic Holiday Race in the Valley instead of at Badger Pass. The long course went from the Sentinel Picnic area by the 4 mile trail down to El Cap crossover and back. This photo shows the relay race in Leidig Meadow, Yosemite Valley
When we got here this morning it was snowing and hasn't stopped yet. We have received 2"-3" throughout the day and more forecasted for tonight. We have an 80% chance of snow for Monday 2-23-09!! Thank you, and I will see you on the slopes!! (S. Costello - 2/22/09)
Badger Pass - Daily Snow Conditions: Date: February 23, 2009
Downhill Operations
Base Depth: 48” to 84”
New Snow: Forecast 3"-7"
Snow Conditions: Packed powder, powder
Forecast: 80% chance of snow
Temperature: High 41 Low 26
We ran into 2 disabled women Cross Country skiers on the Glacier Point Road in Yosemite on Friday. They were heading out to the Glacier Point hut for a overnight stay.
Today was another perfect day for cross country skiing, snow shoeing down hill skiing or whatever you would like to do in Yosemite. Warm temperatures and a abundance of snow make it a perfect winter playground.
I have seen huge groups of photographers about no doubt here for the Horsetail Fall Firefall event happening right now. To bad there have been very few clear days to see the waterfall.
Tom Stienstra, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, February 20, 2009
California's best snowshoe trek is within reach of anyone who can walk 7 miles.
If you can't do that now, the payoff at Yosemite National Park's Dewey Point should be enough to inspire you to get in shape so that you can.
Dewey Point is perched at 7,385 feet on the south rim of Yosemite Valley. The exhilaration of the view hits all at once, as you seem to tower over El Capitan, directly across the valley. To your right is Cathedral Spire and beyond that is Taft Point. Below is Yosemite Valley leading to Half Dome. You can also take in the distant Clark and Cathedral ranges, wilderness now covered with a blanket of snow, crowned on the horizon by Echo Peak, Matterhorn Peak and other frozen mountaintops.
This is California's greatest showpiece. In summer, visitors come from all over the world to take in this panorama. Yet in winter, you can often have Dewey Point all to yourself.
How hard is the trip? Well, it can go either way: It can be easy - or it can be very difficult.
The 1st view is at Inspiration Point in Yosemite on the way up to Badger Pass. We then cross country ski out to Dewey Point, a 8 mile round trip from Badger Pass ski area in Yosemite. Dewey Point is this amazing rib that just out over Yosemite Valley and overs views of El Capitan, Yosemite Valley, Half Dome and the High Sierra. The mountains are blanketed in fresh snow.
Yosemite got several inches of new snow overnight and today dawned clear and cold. We headed out to Dewey Point today, a 8 mile round trip cross country ski to a rib that juts out over Yosemite Valley.
Backcountry bliss Reward at the end of the trail is great for those making trek to Dewey Point.
Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009 By Marek Warszawski / The Fresno Bee
YOSEMITE -- Mother Nature can be such a tease.
During the 3.5-mile journey to Dewey Point, cross-country skiers and snowshoers are allowed only a glimpse of the grandeur ahead.
A peek here. A break in the forest there. But nothing that prepares you for the wallop to come.
Then it happens. Across a narrow gully, up and over a small hill, down into a clearing and -- pow! -- the enormity of it all hits you like Ray Lewis hits a running back. Spread out before your eyes is a winter panorama so breathtaking it can't possibly be real.
But it is. "You know it's here, and you know you're coming to something," said Theresa Ballestin of Shasta Valley, who visited Dewey Point for the first time last week with her husband, John. "But you don't see it until you come over that little rise. Your jaw drops, and you're speechless. The view literally makes you gasp." And what a view. El Capitan, so imposing from the Valley floor, looks like just another big rock from up here.
Panoramic photo of the Clark Range from Clark View on the Glacier Point Road in Yosemite. This is about a 6 mile ski out from Badger Pass Ski area. A great place for a picnic and Mt Clark is center.
Today was a warm Blue Bird day and it was no different cross country sking on Yosemite's Glacier Point Road. It was so warm we wore just regular shirts and pants.
This is skating past what they call "Clark's View" and is about 6 miles out on the Glacier Pont Road from Badger Pass. This is a great lunch spot with huge vistas of Mt Clark.
The cross country skiing on the Glacier Point road yesterday was perfect. The groomers had smoothed the nice powder to make for perfect skiing. We started at Badger Pass and went all the way to Bridalveil Creek, about 4 miles. It was not crowded at all and we saw 1 snowshoer and 4 skiers.
Summit Meadow area
Summit Meadow area
Summit Meadow area
Approaching Bridalveil Campground.
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