Comments on: Yosemite Possible Target for Terrorists? http://www.yosemiteblog.com/2007/10/29/yosemite-possible-target-for-terrorists/ The Insiders Guide to Yosemite Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:20:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Angel http://www.yosemiteblog.com/2007/10/29/yosemite-possible-target-for-terrorists/#comment-37070 Angel Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:55:01 +0000 http://www.yosemiteblog.com/2007/10/29/992/#comment-37070 I assure you the ones you have to fear are very quiet and much closer to your own nationality than you think. There are also very few of them. I assure you the ones you have to fear are very quiet and much closer to your own nationality than you think. There are also very few of them.

]]> By: Freddy http://www.yosemiteblog.com/2007/10/29/yosemite-possible-target-for-terrorists/#comment-36727 Freddy Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:11:47 +0000 http://www.yosemiteblog.com/2007/10/29/992/#comment-36727 Interesting. Somewhat around the time period of the linked article - Sunday 9/30/07, to be precise - I spent the evening at the Little Yosemite camp. Well after dark, maybe 9-10 PM, a large, very loud group of guys rolled into camp via the Half Dome trail. The loudest, most obnoxious people I'd encountered all summer - worse even than the Cell Phone Lady who terrorizes Ahwahnee Meadow on moonlit nights. Not only were these guys aggressively yelling at the top of their lungs, but there was all sorts of whistling going on. Couldn't understand them nor make out the language - my guess was Arabic or some sort of French. I was awake, they didn't bother me too much, but I was temped to say something to them on behalf of the rest of the camp, who must have been awakened by the racket. But they sounded a little too aggressive, so I figued not. They hung out around the WC for a while, wandered around noisily, and fortunately, finally left. When I got back home, I joked that as well as Al Qaeda in Afganistan and Al Qaeda in Iraq, we've now got a new chapter to look out for: Al Qaeda in Yosemite. Yikes! The next weekend we parked up at Hetch Hetchy. Didn't read the placard they gave us until we got off the trail. Then I realized, yeah - that dam could be certainly be a target. They are serious about that stuff. Interesting. Somewhat around the time period of the linked article - Sunday 9/30/07, to be precise - I spent the evening at the Little Yosemite camp. Well after dark, maybe 9-10 PM, a large, very loud group of guys rolled into camp via the Half Dome trail. The loudest, most obnoxious people I’d encountered all summer - worse even than the Cell Phone Lady who terrorizes Ahwahnee Meadow on moonlit nights.

Not only were these guys aggressively yelling at the top of their lungs, but there was all sorts of whistling going on. Couldn’t understand them nor make out the language - my guess was Arabic or some sort of French.

I was awake, they didn’t bother me too much, but I was temped to say something to them on behalf of the rest of the camp, who must have been awakened by the racket. But they sounded a little too aggressive, so I figued not. They hung out around the WC for a while, wandered around noisily, and fortunately, finally left.

When I got back home, I joked that as well as Al Qaeda in Afganistan and Al Qaeda in Iraq, we’ve now got a new chapter to look out for: Al Qaeda in Yosemite. Yikes!

The next weekend we parked up at Hetch Hetchy. Didn’t read the placard they gave us until we got off the trail. Then I realized, yeah - that dam could be certainly be a target. They are serious about that stuff.

]]> By: Henrik Lehnerer http://www.yosemiteblog.com/2007/10/29/yosemite-possible-target-for-terrorists/#comment-36694 Henrik Lehnerer Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:03:50 +0000 http://www.yosemiteblog.com/2007/10/29/992/#comment-36694 Anything is possible, but I hope that this is not the case! Why can’t we all live in peace? Anything is possible, but I hope that this is not the case! Why can’t we all live in peace?

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