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Greg Thomas @gregrthomas

Travel & Outdoors Editor @SFChronicle. Host of the podcast Wild West apple.co/2NQRt16 Formerly Senior Editor @OutsideMagazine

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Greg Thomas@gregrthomas
17 Dec 2023
Hour-by-hour look at the hiker who became pinned by a boulder in the mountains near Bishop CA earlier this month, and the incredible rescue that freed him sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art…

‘I’m going to die’: One man’s horrific ordeal in the California mountains

A New York man went mineral hunting on a remote California mountainside. He crawled under...

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Group of frustrated Yosemite staffers just hung an upside down American flag from El Capitan, thousands of feet off the ground, visible to people on the valley floor. Here's why they're doing it: sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art…

Photos: ‘Distress flag’ towers over Yosemite to protest cuts as crowds view firefall

Saturday’s protest at Yosemite National Park sought to bring attention to the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration this month.

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Huge news for Lake Tahoe skiing: huge Palisades ski village just approved. 850 condos, 1,500 hotel rooms, 3,000 parking spaces. Could take 25 years to build. sfchronicle.com/tahoe/articl…

Tahoe’s largest resort gets approval for massive new ski village

A long-debated expansion of the ski village at Palisades Tahoe in North Lake Tahoe will bring 850 new condos and 1,500 more hotel rooms to the small community of Olympic Valley.

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A Bay Area rock climber is facing felony charges for allegedly raping or sexually assaulting at least 3 other climbers in Yosemite, Joshua Tree, SF and Pacifica sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art…

Bay Area rock climber charged with forcible rape, sodomy and oral copulation in string of alleged...

The climber faces nine felony charges in connection with alleged crimes in Yosemite and Joshua Tree national parks as well as the Bay Area from 2019 to 2023.

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Coyotes in SF have become a real problem. More than 600 sightings in the city this year and a bunch of attacks sfchronicle.com/sf/article/c…

Reports of S.F. coyote encounters exploded this year. What should the city do about it?

More coyote reports were filed through October of this year than in all of 2023, according to a Chronicle review of records from San Francisco Animal Care and Control. 

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Fun Yosemite story for the weekend. These dudes are up there right now! sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art…

‘A little spooky’: Yosemite highliners air walk 1,000 feet above valley floor

A crew of highliners just put up a 1,900-foot long slackline along the southern rim of Yosemite Valley, one of the longer lines on record for the park. 

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Inside Homewood's closure: "The status quo of catering to local skiers, selling lift tickets and serving burgers is failing in the era of multi-resort megapasses. Homewood is particularly challenged because of its remote location." By @gregrthomas sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art…

California lost a cherished ski area for the winter. Locals fear what may come next

Lake Tahoe’s Homewood Mountain Resort will close this winter. Its problems have long been in the making — and locals fear for its future.

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Business at Tahoe’s Homewood ski area has been bad for more than a decade but the resort hadn’t shut down for winter — until now. Backstory on a troubled resort in one of the world’s skiing capitals sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art…

California lost a cherished ski area for the winter. Locals fear what may come next

Lake Tahoe’s Homewood Mountain Resort will close this winter. Its problems have long been in the making — and locals fear for its future.

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The other day my wife and I were hiking in the Yosemite backcountry and encountered a forest fire right in our path. Here’s how that went sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art…

I was backpacking in Yosemite and nearly hiked into a forest fire. Here’s what happened next

A backcountry trek on the John Muir Trail became scary when I realized my wife and I were hiking straight toward a forest fire.

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“We are shocked and very, very sad that they announced that they would close the mountain." Tahoe locals react to Homewood ski area closing for the coming winter season sfchronicle.com/travel/artic…

Outrage over Tahoe ski area’s plan to stay closed this winter: ‘We are shocked’

The news that a beloved Tahoe ski resort won’t open this winter, in the midst of a protracted fight over public access at the historic mountain, has left its community reeling.

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Tahoe skiing news: Homewood Mountain Resort on the West Shore, a local favorite forever, just said they won't open or operate at all this coming winter sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art…

Beloved Tahoe ski area says it won’t open at all this winter

An independently owned ski area on Lake Tahoe’s west shore just announced it will not operate in the coming winter.

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One of the Bay Area’s most popular old growth redwood parks is about to get bigger One of California's most popular old-growth redwood parks is about to get bigger sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art…

One of California's most popular old-growth redwood parks is about to get bigger

A $2 million land deal is adding 390 acres of redwood forest — including a swath of old-growth redwoods — to a popular state park in Sonoma County.

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If you can't afford a single family home in SF maybe pivot to a 40-acre private property for sale in the middle of a national park in the High Sierra... sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art…

‘Nothing like it’: California glamping resort inside a national park on sale for $5 million

A privately owned luxury glamping retreat is on the market for the first time in 25 years.

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Does California’s tallest mountain have a poop problem? By @gregrthomas sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art…

Does California’s tallest mountain have a poop problem?

Hikers are required to pack their poop off the mountain, but some just toss bags of feces into the bushes or leave them for others to pick up. 

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Hikers on Mount Whitney are required to pack out their poop ... but enough of them aren't doing it that it's not hard to find ziplock bags of feces just layin around the trail sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art…

Does California’s tallest mountain have a poop problem?

Hikers are required to pack their poop off the mountain, but some just toss bags of feces into the bushes or leave them for others to pick up. 

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“I’m happy I did it, but that was the suckiest day of my life.” That's the kind of thing you'll hear from a lot of hikers on Mt Whitney, but it doesn't have to be a full-on sufferfest sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art…

Mount Whitney doesn’t have to be a sufferfest. It can just be fun

Hiking Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous U.S., is a roller coaster of highs and lows, but going super slowly might be the most enjoyable way to conquer the peak.

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AT&T has agreed to remove ~100,000 pounds of century-old lead-lined telecommunications cables from the bottom of Lake Tahoe sfchronicle.com/tahoe/articl…

AT&T will remove 100,000 pounds of lead from Lake Tahoe

AT&T will remove about 107,000 pounds of lead from Lake Tahoe that some locals worry has been leaching toxins into the water for decades, according to a settlement agreement announced Wednesday.

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One of the first-ever freediving competitions in the US just happened yesterday on Lake Berryessa in Napa County, of all places. That's diving for depth -- hundreds of feet down -- on one breath. Here's how it went sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art…

‘Breathe! Breathe!’ What happened at Bay Area’s first-ever freediving competition

The niche sport of freediving hit a milestone in the U.S. last weekend when Bay Area divers held a sanctioned competition in Lake Berryessa in Napa County.

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Sad story about a man vacationing on the Humboldt County coast becoming swallowed in a sand avalanche while digging on the beach sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art…

Man dies after being trapped in ‘sand avalanche’ on Northern California beach

A man vacationing on the Humboldt County coast died in the hospital Saturday after being trapped in what authorities called a “sand avalanche” that collapsed on him while he was digging at the...

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Awesome cleanup project by the East Bay Trash Pandas. 18 tons of garbage pulled off Grizzly Peak above Berkeley oaklandside.org/2024/09/03/e…

He tried to clean up Grizzly Peak. Then came the messy part: East Bay politics

How John Kirkham and his volunteer cleanup group, the East Bay Trash Pandas, made sure their work didn't go to waste.

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