What do you know about the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park? It is located in the Yosemite Valley. Here is a bit of information as you take a video tour.

Meet Trumper and Bounder. No, we didn’t say Mark Truppner of KVML’s “All News All Morning”.. we mean Trumper.. a dog, with his buddy Bounder. They both love Lake Alpine. And what can be better than watching two dogs enjoying a sunny day at 7300 feet? You can nearly smell the fresh air, the water, the pine trees and the wet dogs in Lake Alpine, located along highway 4 at Alpine County!

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Five spectators were injured this morning after shrapnel was sent flying at the demolition of a decommissioned steam power plant in California’s Central Valley, authorities said.

More than 1,000 people had gathered at 6 a.m. in a nearby parking lot to watch the planned implosion at the plant owned by Pacific Gas and Electric in Bakersfield. After structures on the property came crashing down, a police officer at the scene heard a man screaming for help and saw his leg had been severed, police said.

“It was a piece of shrapnel that came flying out of the explosion and came across and went through a couple of chain link fences, struck him and impacted into a vehicle,” said Lt. Scott Tunnicliffe.

The 44-year-old victim might lose his other leg as well due to his injuries, Tunnicliffe said.

Four other spectators were treated for minor injuries, said Kern County Fire engineer Leland Davis. All of the injured spectators were standing beyond a perimeter set up to ensure public safety, Davis said.

Residents of the city about 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles were eager to see the old plant torn down to make way for new development. The plant was decommissioned in 1986 and has been idle ever since.

Pacific Gas and Electric reached an agreement with the city to clean up the property and prepare it for sale. The company hired subcontractors to handle the demolition of the plant’s boiler structures and worked with local authorities to set up a safe perimeter 1,000 feet from the site, said Denny Boyles, a company spokesman.

“We are deeply saddened that this happened,” Boyles said. “We’re looking for answers like everyone else.”

Imagine if you had Yosemite National Park all to yourself. This video captures the Park’s view from the top of Vernal Fall.

Yosemite National Park’s steady stream of visitors and attendance is just slightly off from last year at this time. Park officials report that 527,000 people have come through the gates from January to June, compare to 547,000 last year at this time. That is a dip of about 20,000.

Park officials say they had worried the dry weather could keep people from coming to the park. “It is the second year of a dry year, but it doesn’t seem to be effecting visitation,” says Spokesperson Scott Gediman. “People are out and about and enjoying themselves; so no huge increases or decreases, it just seems to be a good steady summer,”

Gediman stresses the parks attendance has stuck around the four million mark for over a decade and he says they are on track to do that this year. He says overall they are very pleased with the attendance numbers so far.

Source: MyMotherLode.com

Due to fluctuating levels, we never recommend cliff jumping at Lake Tulloch.

But we do encourage you to see this video of others enjoying the water.

Breaking the law? Unknown. Recommended? No.

This is what jumping 70 feet from the Jacksonville Bridge into Lake Don Pedro below looks like.

Great filming. Watch and enjoy!

Ever wonder what bears do when we’re not looking? These images were captured with a remote wildlife camera as various species visited a “rub” tree in Alberta, Canada leaving a scent as a form of communication to other bears and animals. The image data is being collected as part of a collaborative study looking at multi-species habitat use within various mountainous landscapes.

This is a Serval cat. The Serval is a medium-sized African wild cat. In some cases people keep these cats as pets. It is ILLEGAL to have a pet Serval in California.

So we traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada to find this lady who has owned and cared for a pet Serval for a couple of years. In order to give her Serval proper nourishment, she feeds it live mice every couple of months to help mimic the Serval’s diet in the wild.

In the wild, a Serval will hunt and eat much larger mice, rodents, snakes, frogs and birds. For a Serval, as well as most wild animals that eat live mice, they are getting their full nutrients out of eating the mice. The bones, the fur, the intestines, liver, heart brain and all vital organs are good for a Serval to grow into a healthy animal instead of always having food such as raw chicken legs, hearts and breasts.

The mice in the video are bred to be eaten and sold as ‘feeder mice’ for snakes, lizards, and other wild animals to eat.