We met Brian Hawkins, a Redondo Beach mechanical engineer-turned-videographer, in the near-empty lobby of the Yosemite Valley Lodge. It was just after 9 on a Tuesday night in late April.

Yosemite, Upper San Joaquin River and Kaiser to Rodgers Ridge are the focus of an updated winter storm warning issued at 8:47 a.m. on Tuesday by the National Weather Service. The warning is in ...