— Jim Wirth

One of our OpenRoad.TV contributors, Rick Deutsch, lives the Carpe Diem attitude. Rick has hiked Yosemite’s Half Dome over 20 times, and has written a great book on the subject called One Best Hike: Yosemite’s Half Dome. Rick also provides valuable up-to-date information about Yosemite at his website and blog. If you have any plans on visiting Yosemite Valley and scaling this iconic rock any time soon, I encourage you to check out what Rick has to say.

— Carl Bidleman

Like Doug, I’ve fallen in love with Yosemite too, which puts me in an exclusive club with only 3-4 million other people who visit every year. I recently discovered and have become very fond of Loyd Schutte’s Yosemite Blog.

I look forward to his daily posts that bring insider’s info and spectacular photos (with photographer credits which is very cool) of the Yosemite region to my inbox. For me it’s a mental journey to Yosemite that I can take when I most need it during the day. In fact, it’s inspired me to create a similar series for this blog that I’ll call 10 Second Vacation featuring stunning or intriguing photos from around the west. Thanks Loyd. And take care of Yosemite for the rest of us till we can get back there again.