Yosemite National Park, United States Travel Blogs

Yosemite National Park
Jun 25, 2007 (30 photos)

... hall was a small museum showing how Yosemite's landscape was formed, how people have lived in Yosemite for hundreds of years and about the park's wildlife. After that I walked through the Indian village to learn about the Ahwahnee Indians.  Then I ...

Fina National Championships and Yosemite
Aug 11, 2006 (3 photos)

... here and as we left, a number of motorcyclists emerged and roared off on their bikes. We continued our trip on to Yosemite through the foothills, skipped the 'Old Priest's Grade" route and took the newer more modern road up to Groveland. The view was ...

Freewheeling
Feb 14, 2007 (4 photos)

I had been pondering these last few days about whether or not to go to Yosemite National Park wondering if I felt well enough to go hiking around it. Although not back to 100% health it was a place I had bookmarked as somewhere I had really wanted to go ...

Walking Among Giants
Feb 15, 2007 (16 photos)

... reminding me of the Cu Chi tunnels in Vietnam, minus the snow. Driving to a couple of lookout points the views down the Yosemite valley were spectacular with the deep blue sky above on this clear day really showing off the park at it's best. The ...

Wow, wow, wow!!!
Oct 26, 2008 (39 photos)

... a shooting star would streak across the sky and we all had enough wishes for a year. We could easily have spent much more time in the beautiful Yosemite National Park but there were other important things to discover, like the Californian wine country.

Misery
Jan 26, 2007 (7 photos)

... them guaranteed to secure serious coronary problems in the next few years. We checked in to 'The Yosemite Bug', a mountain lodge somewhere in the national park. We were within minutes of the deadline. Apparently we were 'lucky'. We were also lucky to ...

Finding Sam
Jan 28, 2007 (39 photos)

... a mountain lion: wave your arms, shout, and throw rocks and sticks at the lion..' It's hard to describe hiking through Yosemite. I guess you could say it's like being in a roadrunner cartoon, on one of those hairline roads that wind through the endless ...

Bye, bye, California
Oct 1, 2009 (4 photos)

... system up in the hills for irrigating the crops below, we take a winding, steep road past old mining towns and arrive at Yosemite National Park to set up camp at Crane Flats. First thing in the morning after closing up the camper we took a walk to see the ...

Yosemite Part Deux
Jun 27, 2009

... ;      Some other cool 5.9 finger crack *Routes we’d highly recommend Leaning Tower and Bridalveil Falls Link to many, many more pictures from Yosemite here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/benkunz/sets/72157619496658942/

A very wet Yosemite National Park!
Feb 9, 2007

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Yosemite
Sep 5, 2009 (9 photos)

Stage 10 - Yosemite Park
Sep 17, 2009

... Dodge. Then it was back on the road and towards Yosemite. After we left Death Valley, we headed north towards Yosemite National Park. The drive there took us a little longer than expected due to some very windy and steep roads in Death Valley we only got ...

Yosemite a.k.a. Little Manhattan National Park
Jul 27, 2008 (12 photos)

... ; Words can't do it justice.  I also left Yosemite one day before the bad summer fires hit.  I'm apparently bad luck on national parks. Oh yeah, I also visited Lassen Volcanic National Park in Northern California.  Very neat. 

Yosemite National Park
Apr 8, 2005 (5 photos)

... the city as a backpacker. However knowing my passion for mountains, my Aunt/Uncle generously offered to take me to Yosemite National Park for a few days to experience the wonders of the Sierra/Nevada ranges. It is with delight that I inform you that ...

The hike from Heaven
Sep 12, 2008

Up early to go on the stated 6-8 hour hike up to the top of the Nevada falls. The Yosemite falls has no water at the moment, but the Nevada falls does as it's fed by glacial melt, higher up in the mountain range. I ended up doing it in 5.5 hours and was a ...

Yosemite National Park Winter Landscape
Feb 27, 2008 (12 photos)

Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park offers a unique landscape at any time of year. However, the winter's snow adds a special beauty to this glacier carved valley. Snow blankets the valley floor and covers rocks in the river. The waterfalls still flow ...

El Capitain
Sep 19, 2006 (5 photos)

El Capitain, Yosemite National Park 4/9 2006

Yosemite Valley, California
May 31, 2008 (35 photos)

Well It was a full day's drive to Yosemite and when we got there everybody was tired and it was getting dark when we finally reached our Housekeeping Camp. The office had closed and there was a wall of keys for late arrivals, but our name wasn't there. Mum ...

Yosemite National Park
May 6, 2009 (8 photos)

... den Weg. Auf dem grossen Parkplatz lassen wir unser Auto stehen und machen uns zu Fuss auf den Weg, zuerst Richtung Lower Yosemite Falls. Auch dieser Fall führt so viel Wasser, dass man nur aus einiger Distanz fotografieren kann und die Brücke vor dem Fall ...

So beautiful
Aug 25, 2009 (11 photos)

From Lake Tahoe we drove down to Yosemite National Park. Fortunately Bill & Becky have been here many times before so we were able to get the "fast pass" to see a LOT in a little amount of time. We had perfect weather and did some guided travel as well ...

Narrow road, sheer drops and The Man from Cheddar
Sep 25, 2009 (4 photos)

... Here's a link to a movie from our drive to Yosemite from Lee Vining, and here's a link to a movie inside Yosemite. In the United States, Halloween is a much bigger deal than in the UK, I discovered this a few years back but didn't realise decorations were ...

Yosemite - 1200 square miles, 400 bears - we saw 0
Sep 28, 2009 (6 photos)

We've finally seen some of Yosemite! The first thing we noticed about Yosemite is that the park appears to be full of VERY fat ground squirrels. There are notices everywhere around the park saying 'Keep the wildlife wild - DO NOT FEED the animals'. Clearly ...

Day 28; Cracks & a Bear!
Aug 18, 2009 (17 photos)

... Jeff, the instructor, and 4 other climbers. Off we went then, till 4pm when we could pick him up! We started off by exploring Yosemite Village, and of course had to pop into the visitor centre for a fridge magnet or two, and also looked in the Ansel Adams ...

Yosemite
Apr 6, 2007 (10 photos)

Today we left Yuba City for Yosemite National Park. It was a beautiful day hardly a cloud in the sky and around 80 degrees. It was about 116 miles to Yosemite. We drove to the north entrance of Yosemite through areas where the forest fires had scorched the ...

Yosemite - Day 3
Sep 22, 1998

With a 9am wake up call and after a hard day yesterday was going to have a quiet day today, but Paul wanted to go for a bike ride so I said I'd come along. So we started out easy 2 and half miles downhill and then we bike 40 minutes along this dirt track ...

White Wolf
Sep 1, 2008 (4 photos)

... back down on the Muir Trail), and spent the night in a platform tent in the valley.  This was a cool set-up.  Yosemite a valley that is surrounded by very steep cliffs and waterfalls - very scenic.  Not so much water right now, as ...

Jun 17, 2009
Jun 17, 2009 (25 photos)

... and beaches.  And while you're at it click on the upper and lower fall pic for what could be a post card for yosemite.  All V's pictures for the day rock. After the rafting we headed in the direction of Vegas, our next stop.& ...

'If you go down to the woods today...'
May 29, 2007

... for the night on a nice little camp site with real grass! Back in the van the next day we headed for Yosemite National Park for 2nights. We stopped to take some scenic photos, there was snow on the mountains and the surrounding views were breathtaking. ...

Beware of the bears!
May 18, 2009 (11 photos)

 From San Francisco we headed to our first National Park on the west coast – Yosemite. We arrived early to get into the first come, first serve campsite, Camp 4. We must have arrived by 6.30am and there was already a queue of people waiting for ...

Yosemite or Bust, literally.
Aug 24, 2009 (11 photos)

... that the area is packed, it’s a beautiful day and everyone is cramming in the last minute visit. A good amount of the Yosemite landmarks can be seen from the floor, Half Dome, El Capitan and trails for the upper and lower falls can be accessed as ...