Dispatch from Yosemite Valley, CA
Text, photographs and web design by Erik Gauger

"I guess I’ve always had a little monkey in me," Jason Price says. On the way to camp, Jason sees some people climbing and he convinces his dad to pull over. "I conned him into letting me ask if I could climb, and they let me tie into a swami belt and I managed to shimmy up on a 5’7, it was like a hard jungle gym "

Thirty years later, Jason lives in the Yosemite Valley, for all practical purposes the center of the climber's world, and by some measures the world's most beautiful space. I met Jason briefly in the valley, and I then I told my wife, "I want to know what life is like for people who live there." A week later, I call Jason and ask him how it all happened.

Sierra Range Owens Valley Camping with the Mars Research Crew in Owens Valley. The John Muir Wilderness Backpacking, friendships and altitude sickness. King's Canyon Paradise and angry tourists in California's deep canyon. Sequoia National Park Examining the very, very large trees of Sequoia National Park. Yosemite Valley What if you actually lived there? One man's story as a climber. Tuolomne Meadows Magicians, Travel Writers and Yosemite's high meadows as a metaphor for travel writing.

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