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Show Russell Jacobs 13 January 2010 grandiose place. Yosemite, Yosemite is right up there, right up there you know, number one, number two, you know, it's a wonderful place and even with as many people that visit Yosemite and it's booked from right after Memorial Day to Labor Day, I mean the maximum amount of people allowed in the Park is met every single day. But while you're climbing and while you're up on the wall, you don't even notice it, you don't even notice the hustle and bustle and people, you know setting up their camp and camping and riding and hiking and doing the other things people do in a National Park. We're completely removed, completely, I mean being on a big wall we're so remote it's like you could take that route and put it in Alaska, it'd be exactly the same. No difference, because there's, it's so hard once you're on a wall it's so hard for anyone to even get close to you. If you had to arrest you yeah, but it could take two days to get to you, in some of those places on a wall could take two days, you know "El Cap" you know one full day most of the time but sometimes two days as well. MD: So in your mind is that the way to see Yosemite? RJ: It was for me, for sure I mean Yosemite will always be a special place for me I will continue to return to Yosemite year after year 'til the day I die, uh, and there's a lot of history in Yosemite. You know I'm glad that uh, John Muir had the fortitude, the foresight and the ambition to lobby to congress, get the President of the United States at the time there camping and uh, and have Yosemite become a National Park. He had, I have so much respect for that man, John Muir, my hat, I mean he's an amazing fellow, its unfortunate I never got to meet him. MD: I think a lot of people feel that way. RJ: He's a legend. 14 |
