Sequoia Natural History staff wanted those who attended Tuesday’s Mather Mountain Party to think back as if they were living 100 years ago. That’s when a group of men went from Visalia to ...

LOS ANGELES — There were meals members of the Mather Mountain Party wouldn’t have believed if they hadn’t eaten them. For one breakfast in the Sierra Nevada Mountains during the summer of ...

Stephen Mather hired him in 1915 to join an expedition to Yosemite, where Sing’s food would sustain and help influence men who held the future of the national parks in their hands. This now-famous ...

Led by Stephen Mather, assistant secretary of the Department of the Interior, the Mather mountain party assembled at The Palace Hotel in Visalia on July 14, 1915 for a Mexican food dinner and ...

On July 27, 10 adventurous men and women are leaving the Central Valley floor for a commemorative pack trip similar to the one a group of men who belonged to the Mather Mountain Party took a ...

But that was about to change. The men who would go on to found NPCA, Stephen Mather and Robert Sterling Yard, had been feverishly campaigning for the creation of a unified National Park Service for 18 ...

Mather organized a Sierra Nevada “mountain party” pack trip for a group of reporters and businessmen, including National Geographic Editor Gilbert H. Grosvenor.