Photos: Winter in Yosemite National Park

A seven-point buck pauses in Cook’s Meadow after a snow storm.

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Ice clings to the grass blades starting to emerge after a winter’s nap in Cook’s Meadow.

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Young pine trees poke through the snow in the Ahwahnee Meadow while the distant clouds swirl around Half Dome before sunrise.

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With a fresh blanket of snow from an overnight storm, a new morning dawns at the venerable Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite Valley.

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The wooden footpath in Sentinel Meadow is covered with snow on a cold January afternoon.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

On a frosty winter morning, Upper Yosemite Fall is just a trickle.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

In this time exposure, the mist and water fed by melting snow at Lower Yosemite Fall collects and swirls while refracting the colors from the rising sun.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Clouds cling to the rock faces of El Capitan after a winter storm sweeps through Yosemite Valley.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

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Birds perch in the bushes in El Capitan Meadow after a winter storm.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

The old wooden Yosemite Chapel looks like something from Currier & Ives after an overnight snowstorm.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Morning fog and snow envelop Yosemite Valley.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

The last rays of light glow on the granite faces in Yosemite Valley on an evening late in winter.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Deer are unfazed by falling snowflakes.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Late winter snow melting forms cool droplets of water that gather and run over a mossy outcropping of rock near tunnel view in Yosemite Valley.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

The full moon rises above the clouds.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

A dusting of fresh snow clings to the edges of an oak leaf on a chilly morning after a snowstorm.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Grasses are frozen in suspended animation in a shelf of ice along the Merced River.

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