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June of 2019 All High Sierra Outdoors & Nature News Index
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Man and Nature
June, 2019
Happenings in the relationship between Man and Nature affecting our hike down life's trail through both worlds. We study both the reality created by humans and the uncreated reality reflected in, and tended by Nature.
The vast majority of our reporting on Nature comes from the American Association of Scientists summarizations of each day's bounty of the peer-reviewed research published by academic institutions and journals around the world.
Our focus is on everything, every living thing and natural process that we will encounter hiking from Lake Tahoe to Mount Whitney, and out the Portal. The birds, the bees, the water, the trees, the granite in the ground under our feet, and the stars in the sky at night.
Our goal of tracking the status and trajectory of everything we encounter and engage as we hike through the Natural World then brings into play everything it takes to put and keep us out there, which covers a plethora of backpacker-related safety, health, fitness, gear, skills, observation, navigation, and, of course, weather and climate issues.
Finally, the most deciseive factor we track that predicts the current status and future trajectory of the health and well-being of Nature are the behaviors, science, culture, and arts of Mankind, who are both one of Nature's greatest and worse creations at the same time. We're going to try to make things better at the bottom-line.
We track the alingment of forces affecting the Nature of our hike through Life on this planet.
You will get the latest news from the forefronts of Climate, Bio, Astro, and the hard sciences affecting our engagement with Nature here, typically two days before hitting the corporate press, but a very long time after they've already deeply affected Man & Nature, if the grimness of our purposeful ecological collapse even comes across the pages of the corporate press at all.
You'll get the real deal here.
Updated
June 28, 2019
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Caltrans: ALL High Sierra Highway Status
High Sierra Roads & Highway News
Dead Serious
HIGH SIERRA Mountain Safety Topics & Incidents
Day Length
June 1
14:43:02
Day length increasing +1:06 per day
May 1
13:50:16
Day length increasing +2:10 per day
April 1
12:38:41
Day length increasing +2:31 per day
March 1
11:19:59
Day length increasing +2:29 per day
February 1
10:14:51
Day length increasing +2:02 per day
January 1
9:29:49
Day length increasing +0:38 per day
WINTER SOLSTICE
December 21
9:32:53
Day length decreasing −0:01 per day yesterday, as daylight contraction ended today. and began expanding.
December 1
9:38:23
Day length decreasing -1:12 per day
Night Skies
Rising in the Late Evening East
Summer Triangle
Night Skies on the Trail Guide
Fading out into Sunsetting West
Winter Circle,
Earth-Sky, January 17, 2017.
Coming Soon
Summer Triangle, signpost for all seasons,
Earth-Sky, March 2, 2017.
December 21
First Day of Winter
NASA: Annual Cycle of Light
Astro Observation Tools
Fermilab Virtual Telescope, all views
Current Star Chart and Sky Wheel for Field Use
The In-The-Sky.org Digital Star Wheel
Backpacker Planning & Study Constellation & Star Chart
All Astro-Phys, Stellar, & Atomic News
Also of Interest
NASA Astro Image of the Day
High Sierra Roads & Highways
All CalTrans High Sierra Road Status
High Sierra Road Opening History
Fed: Tioga Pass Status
JULY ALL HIGH SIERRA TRAIL NEWS
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June 2019
WEATHER, TERRAIN, & TRAILS
NEWS
IMPORTANT
Tracking the Spring Thaw of 2019
Updated
June 27
TRANS-HIGH SIERRA HIGHWAYS
Tioga Road Fully Opening July 1, 2019, Highway 120
June 26
MOUNTAIN SAFETY
Half Dome Permit Policy Safety Analysis
Permit-Only Access to Half Dome summit Did Not Improve Hiker Safety
June 24
MOUNTAIN SAFETY HIKER DEATH
The Whitney Zone
MOUNTAIN SAFETY CLIMBER RESCUE
East Sierra Accident
MOUNTAIN SAFETY CLIMBER ACCIDENT & RESCUE
Eastern Sierra Accident
June 23
RUNOFF
Check Out the Size of Bridgeport Reservoir, Goog Maps
(That's Twin Lakes to its SW...)
Related
High Water Forces Closure of Some Lake Tahoe South Shore Beaches,
Tahoe Daily Tribune, June 24, 2019.
June 20
HIGH SIERRA TRAIL NEWS: ROAD ACCESS
First Highway 120 Opening for 2019 Season
Yosemite Announces Limited Access on Tioga Road Friday, June 21, 2019
June 17
FORESTS, TREES, WILDERNESS EXPERIENCES, & THE LAW
Worse Idea in the World: Bicycles in Wilderness
Sen. Lee Reintroduces the, "Bike across Wilderness' Face" Bill
June 7
MOUNTAIN SAFETY
June 3, 2019
MOUNTAIN SAFETY
A Hike Gone Bad
"On Friday, May 31 at 3:57 pm, the Team responded to a call for a 55-year-old female with a possible ankle fracture approximately one mile in on the Parker Lake Trail in the June Lake Loop."
Remember: Shit Happens!
The Jeffrey Pine splint applied by the subject’s hiking companions. Image by SAR team member M. Quiring
May 31 Broken Ankle Rescue,
Mono SAR, June 3, 2019.
June Lake Loop
Map
ECO-CRASH NEWS, DEPT of TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS
WARNING:
Torrential Downpour Activity has, and is Building for Fifty Years
Downpours of Torrential Rain more Frequent with Global Warming
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ECO-CRASHING NEWS
Early June 2019 Heatwave Tortures Europe
June 26
NATIONAL PARK TRASH
National Amusement Parks, Or Natural High Points?
National Trash: Reducing Waste Produced in US National Parks
June 25
LIFE is STRANGER than FICTION
You Don't Want this Fungus to Spread Among Us Humans...
'Flying (Trippers) of death:' Fungal-infected zombie cicadas, explained by WVU research,
West Virginia University, June 25, 2019.
Hallucinogenically Stoned, "Zombie," Cicadas being Consumed by Deadly Fungus!
UPDATED
Cicadas + Magic Mushrooms = ?,
AGU Blog, July 8, 2019.
CALIFORNIA & HIGH SIERRA BUTTERFLIES, 2018
A Grim Report: Looking Backward -- 2018
Art Shapiro 2018 California-High Sierra Butterfly Assessment, PDF.
Bad Year for Butterflies
"It was a terrible—perhaps even catastrophic--butterfly year at all elevations and no, we don’t know why."
HEALTH, FITNESS, & SUPERIOR GUT BACTERIA
Veillonella Gut Bacteria that Turns Soreness Into Energy
Performance-Enhancing Gut Bacteria Found in Elite Athletes
June 20
ECO-CRASHING NEWS
Global Warming Spruce Beetles are Fat, Happy, Sexed-Up Spruce Beetles
New Research Shows Importance of Climate on Spruce Beetle Flight
THE BUZZ
Commercial Bees Taking Heavy Losses, Hanging in There...
US Beekeepers Lost Over 40% of Colonies Last Year, Highest Winter Losses Ever
OCEANS, ICE, FISH, & WATER
Biggest Global Glaciers Going Down
Melting of Himalayan Glaciers has Doubled in Recent Years
June 19
ANTHROPOCENE
Background of Destruction
Monkeys Face Climate Change Extinction Threat
OCEANS, ICE, WATER, & FISH
Clearer View of Greenland Ice Melting Potentials
Study Predicts More Long-Term Sea Level Rise from Greenland Ice
June 14
RESEARCH ARTICLE UPDATES
Bacteria Capable of Defeating the Last Effective Antibiotic Now in US
NASA on this Year's Record-Level CO2
ECO-CRASHING WATER NEWS
Extreme Weather Increasing
Tropical Cyclones are Stalling More
HEALTH & FITNESS
Weed is a Very Old Medicinal & Fiber Crop
First Marijuana use Found the First Millennium BC
OCEANS, HEALTH & FITNESS
Plastic is Everywhere & In Everything
Clothing Fibers Plastic's Surprising Distribution
OCEANS, WATER, & FISH
2019 Dead Zones at Record Size & Expanding
1>Gulf Mexico --&-- 2>Chesapeake Bay
June 7
BEE NEWS
16% Colony Loss over Winter of 2018
ECO-CRASHING NEWS: ROOTS of the PROBLEM
Counting Nothing on the Ground-Everything Counts Up in the Sky
Fertilizer Plants Emit More CO2 than All US Industrial Production
HEALTH & FITNESS PHYSICAL-DIET
Too Many Eggie-Weggies Still Bad for You
Study: Cholesterol in Eggs Tied to Cardiac Disease, Death
HEALTH & FITNESS MENTAL
Warping our Mental & Social Worlds
Your Digital Dead-Weight Brain in our Brave New Digital World
June 6
HEALTH & FITNESS
Small Percentage of American Diet Counts Up Heavy Microplastic Consumption
Estimating Microplastic Consumption
ECO-CRASHING NEWS HEALTH & FITNESS
Africa to Fry Under Any of the Current Climate "Scenarios"
Extreme Heat to Hit One-Third of the African Urban Population All the Time
June 4
ECO-CRASH NEWS: OCEAN of AIR
Oceans of Hot Air
Carbon Dioxide Levels Hit Record Peak in May
June 1
DEEPLY SPACED
11 Year Sun Cycle Explained by Orbital Cycle of Alignments
The Sun Follows the Rhythm of the Planets
OCEANS, ICE, WATER, & FISH
Fishing Fleets Grown and Growing far Beyond Fish Stocks & Fish Fertility
Study Finds Many More Fishing Vessels Chasing-Catching Many Fewer Fish
OCEANS, ICE, WATER, & FISH
Mountain Glaciers Breaking Down
Melting Small Glaciers could add 10 inches to Sea Levels
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June, 2019, all, High, Sierra, nature, climate, weather, mountain safety, news, index, PCT, JMT, pre, seasonal, review of potential conditions
Originally Published
May 31, 2019
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