httpм://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-hpzzbRDGQ
Temperatures in Yosemite had been in the high 90s the day we arrived, so we started out early the next day a hike along Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, which was not far from where we stayed. Hetch Hetchy is, and I quote from Wikipedia, “a reservoir with a capacity of 360,000 acre ft and is formed by the 364 ft (111m) concrete gravity O’Shaughnessy Dam in Hetch Hetchy Valley on the Tuolomne River. It was completed in 1923 and is owned by the City and County of San Francisco.”
Last evening we watched the new PBS show on national parks, “America’s Best Idea”. It is the first of six two-hour weekly shows.
In a long segment on Yosemite, the first piece of land set aside, when they mentioned the 1890 legislation setting aside the larger Park, they mentioned that the Hetch Hetchy Valley was included, but didn’t go into the later battle over damming up the latter valley.