Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Prepping a Yosemite Hiking Trip :: Part 2 - Reservations
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Prepping a Yosemite Hiking Trip :: Part 1 - Itinerary
The classic view of Yosemite Valley from Tunnel View |
I am presently working on my 3rd trip to Yosemite and loving every minute of it. My wife and I took a trip there in 2008 for just a day. We had travelled down the Pacific coast from Seattle and Yosemite was one of our last day-trips. We hadn’t really done any homework ahead of time and so we just showed up. It was late-May and we were lucky that the Tioga Road was just opening so we drove up to Tuolumne Meadows. We also enjoyed the short hike to Lower Yosemite Falls back in the valley. Time and lack of knowledge of the Park, however, left us unsure what else to do.
Half Dome as viewed from Glacier Point |
In 2011 my friends Matt, Ken, and I made a very well-planned out hiking and camping trip to Yosemite for a week. I’ll be sharing much of what we learned from that later on to explain itineraries. We learned a lot from this trip both in the planning stages and in the implementation of those plans during our week out there.
For 2014 my same friends and I are back at it again. The 178% above normal snowpack of 2011 left us without a summit of Half Dome and so some unfinished business. We have our sights set on more exciting possibilities in Yosemite this year and plan to enjoy the now 33% below normal snowpack of 2014.
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