Your Camp Guides: . . . . Tue, Jan 15, 7:20AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Challenge #1 – How does John Muir describe the sound of a thunderbolt? button
Your Camp Guides: . . . . Tue, Jan 15, 7:20AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Challenge #2 - When humans left Yosemite in the winters of John Muir’s residence – who moved into the valley? Why is it easier for this other visitor to survive a Yosemite winter than can “bi-ped” humans ?
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Your Camp Guides: . . . . Tue, Jan 15, 7:20AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Challenge # 3 - What happened to John Muir when he was trapped in a snow storm on Mount Shasta? How did he survive? Hint: look for the paragraph that starts with: “Could we have begun at once to descend the snow-filled grooves..”
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Your Camp Guides: . . . . Tue, Jan 15, 7:21AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Challenge #4 – Another type of explorer who witnessed the wealth of the Backcountry and immortalized it on canvas were painters. Study the painting of this artist and tell us what weather feature makes these images so brooding and mysterious button
Your Camp Guides: . . . . Tue, Jan 15, 7:21AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Challenge #5 – The most tragic Backcountry Weather experience may have been the Donner Party. How did weather impact on their trip to California ? button
Your Camp Guides: . . . . Tue, Jan 15, 7:21AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Challenge #6 – Jack London is a famous writer who grew up in California, One of his stories reveals something people appreciate about California’s climate – what is it ? button
Your Camp Guides: . . . . Tue, Jan 15, 7:21AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Challenge #7 – One of the most famous pair of explorers fell asleep one night in good weather atop Glacier Point in Yosemite and when they woke up, what had the weather brought them ? button
Your Camp Guides: . . . . Tue, Jan 15, 7:22AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Challenge #8 - In the deserts, rain is more meaningful an event than anywhere else on earth because it is so rare. Rainmakers are important, but mysterious, members of tribes in the Southwest. Read this story about a Yuma rainmaker and tell us who the spirit creature was that helped him, and what was the outcome. button
Your Camp Guides: . . . . Tue, Jan 15, 7:22AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Challenge #9 – Write us a poem or short description of your favorite California weather.