Greg Thomas

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/artic…

@BenGardner87 Give me a try this morning if you're available, thanks Ben

@gregrthomas Sure! I'll be on the road for the next hour or so but can reply later this evening.

On a scale of 1-10, how concerned should I be that Yosemite National Park won't be open when I plan to visit April 18th, 19th and 20th? Feels like a 6. Doesn't feel good.

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/artic…

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/article/…

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/artic…

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/coy…

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

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/artic…

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/artic…

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/artic…

“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/article…

Let’s go @skiingrogge

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/artic…

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/artic…

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/artic…

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

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/artic…

“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/artic…

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/article/…

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/artic…