Popular Trips in Yosemite Valley
Trip up the Yosemite Falls trail. Due to the snow, I didn't make it to the top, but had a great view of the falls and the ice falling down the face. It was a perspective of Yosemite falls that I hadn't previously seen.
Snow Creek Falls Trail, located in Tenaya Canyon, is one of the two trails take you up to the top of the north rim from the valley floors other than Upper Yosemite Falls Trail but considerably more difficult for its steepness . The trail head to Snow Creek Trail is located at the northeast of Mirror Lake, about 1 miles away from the entry of the lake. The trail is narrower and more rockier than...
Hiking half dome withe new permit system and enforcing Park Ranger
Drove from the bay area (Sonoma County) to Yosemite in the morning, braved the weekend valley traffic then hiked to Vernal Falls and Nevada Falls, then drove back to the bay area. (note: I had trouble getting a good GPS signal, so the first half mile is missing and the track jumped around quite a bit until we started coming back down.)Full write-up:http://tmeekins.blogspot.com/2011/08/yosemite-vernal-and-nevada-falls-july.html
Always told myself I would climb in Yosemite at 40. That came and went, but at 49 I had this opportunity to go. I was to travel to Carlsbad for Chopra Center Yoga Certification and it was already a special date. I had been doing local hikes with 30+ lbs in Illinois (like we have mountains!) And I have an ultimate goal of Everest Base Camp in 2013 so I needed some...
Glacier Point offers one of the most spectacular views of the entire Yosemite Valley, including the Half Dome in the middle, North and Basket Domes on the left, and Mt Broderick and Liberty Cap on the right with the Nevada Fall.
The Glacier Point Road is a little windy and narrow, but is still ok to drive in the summer. The section of the road passed the entrance to the Badger Pass...
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