The collection of postcards in “Yosemite’s Historic Hotels and Camps” chronicles Yosemite’s accommodations from the 1900s to the 1950s. Author Alice van Ommeren notes “The park’s natural beauty attracted significant photographic interest and several photographers opened studios in the valley. They used the popularity of postcards in the early 1900s to their advantage by publishing […]
The local ski area (base elevation, 6,600 ft.; summit, 8,200ft.) for Sonora is located within Stanislaus National Forest. It operates under a Special Use Permit from the U. S. Forest Service. When Dodge Ridge opened in 1950 the first owner, Earl Purdy offered a state-of-the-art chairlift built for $95,000, a considerable sum in those days, […]
We are heartily celebrating these holidays and the New Year as the process of distributing the new and improved old fashioned print version of the Mountain Home Gazette (Winter) will continue. We plan to add pages to our seasonal quarterly as we include new items of interest to the publication, which can be also received […]
We begin a series of profiling the beginnings of the various mountain communities along the historic Sonora Pass “trail”, also represented here at Mountain Home Gifts, with a short visit to Twain Harte, truly a mountain home cabin community if there ever was one. Originally the Mi-Wuk Indians lived beside Twain Harte Lake. They built […]
The Mountain Home Gazette Fall issue is currently being distributed and circulated in Sonora and soon will be available in locations in mountain communities from Twain Harte to Sonora Pass. The Volume One, Number One premier issue contains an introduction to Mountain Home Gifts and a reflection of the store’s early beginnings to the present. […]
Yosemite park has a special place in our hearts here at Mountain Home Gifts. With our store located in downtown Sonora we are about an hour and fifteen minutes to Yosemite valley. This allows us to visit the park often and we have seen this awesome place in all seasons and weather. The early signs […]
There are the beginnings of signs of fall here at Mountain Home in the central Sierra Nevada. The days are shorter with less time for after work hiking. The nights are getting a little bit colder. If you live on a lake you are starting to see mist above the water in the early morning. […]