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Yosemite Slideshow
Yosemite
Travel Blogs from Yosemite, United States
Our Trip to Yosemite National Park
This is a top pick! Our first stop after San Francisco was Yosemite National Park. We'll let the photos do the talking, other than to say that place is incredible and one the best places we visited during our whole ...
Yosemite National Park
This is a top pick! ... I toured the Ansel Adams Gallery to see many of his, and other photographers, pictures. Finally I walked through the Yosemite Cemetery. At 2PM I signed up for a tour with Canon Cameras. They let me use a big 35mm ...
the drive to Yosemite
This is a top pick! I drove 65 miles north to Yosemite National Park. After entering I drove to Yosemite's Mariposa Grove. I took a short walk through the grove and viewed the sequioas. I enjoyed the shade of one tree while I ...
Wow, wow, wow!!!
This is a top pick! ... valley the light faded quickly. In the last light of the day the view of famous half dome mountain, which has become Yosemite's symbol, was incredible and our cosy little cabin was situated among some beautiful trees at the base of the mountain. We ...
Freewheeling
This is a top pick! ... was over here so decided I would trot over that way today. The trotting though was done by a shuttle bus out to Yosemite Bug hostel where I would be shacking up for a few days just outside the park itself and the first Hosteling International hostel ...
I don't know where the last couple of weeks ...
This is a top pick! ... reasonably well again by the next afternoon. It just meant a quite day of not doing awfully much. The next day though saw us in Yosemite National Park and my ankle held up to about 6 miles of not very flat hiking which I was very happy about. I have ...
Fina National Championships and Yosemite
This is a top pick! ... activity 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 ...
Walking Among Giants
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Misery
This is a top pick! ... options - everyone of 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 ...
Finding Sam
This is a top pick! ... see 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 ...
Yosemite National Park (World/US&C)
This is a top pick! ... asked if she could take a picture of me for a magazine. I wonder if that photo ever made it to print? Anyway, Yosemite is definitely worth a visit. I would suggest spending as many days in the area as possible, because there is quite a lot to see and ...
Be Prepared!
This is a top pick! ... indicated that he had a similar plan and mindset. So it was a done deal! We headed off on our road trip! First stop: Yosemite (pronounched Yo-sim-ma-tee) National Park. We didn't know the set-up except that it's awesome, in the true sense of the ...
Third day at Camp Curry
... Point. Before I can tell you any more I have to tell you that on the drive up we almost ran over a black bear. Bears in Yosemite are pretty common. If we were a second later then we would of ran over it. At Glacier Point, we saw Half Dome, ...
Bye, bye, California
... we took a walk to see the sequoias at Tuolumne Grove, somehow going uphill the mile back was much longer! We visited the Yosemite Valley, so breathtakingly beautiful seen from the Tunnel View, and were awed by El Capitán, Half-Dome, and the Bridalveil ...
Yosemite Part Deux
... ; 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: ...
A Little More San Francisco, and Away
... . In the evening, about 1930, we left San Francisco heading East. Dick had decided to come with us for a visit to Yosemite National Park where we arrived about 0230 the next morning. At the park entrance a ranger stopped us to inspect the car ...
Fantastic Place to Hike and Swim
At the park information centre we took advice and made a plan for the visit. After writing and sending a stack of post cards we returned the car to the car park and set off on a hike to the Vernal Falls. We swam in the Emerald Pool above the ...
Yosemite
Yosemite a.k.a. Little Manhattan National Park
... however, is unbearable. There are thousands of people crammed into a very small area in the Valley. Nevertheless, I achieved my Yosemite goal of hiking Half Dome. Half Dome is exactly that, half of a rock dome that rises about 4,000 ...
Yosemite National Park
... been friendly and at eating establishments, attentive.....but still poor. Anyway, on to the sandwich shop. The one sandwich shop in Yosemite village. The system involved getting a ticket for service. This is if you are lucky enough to have noticed the ...
Another national park
We reached Yosemite National Park. We camped on lower Pines which was only half full. Jdys parents stayed in Curry Village. Its amazing how many people are in the park. And it is much more amazing that you do not see hardy any people aón the trails. This ...
The end of the tour
... to a perfectly blue sky. It was stunning! As we drove further into the park we got our first glimpses of Yosemite Valley itself, containing El Capitan (a 3000ft granite cliff, perhaps the most famous climbing location) and Half Dome, quite literally a ...
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 Yosemite is absolutely breathtaking and worth visiting if you ever find yourself in Northern California. As a consequence I am completely ...
Whats up doc?
... to get in for free and then onwards to the relatively uncrowded sights of El Capitan, Bridal Veil Falls, the Half Dome and Yosemite falls. It was a stunning set of sights and I will definitely come back to hike around the Yosemite falls but I still ...
Trekking in the Winter Wonderland of Yosemite!
An easy 4-hours drive and 250-miles later and we had arrived at the beautiful ‘Yosemite National Park’ on Sunday afternoon. As we are on quite a tight schedule (USA is pretty vast to tackle in a month) and only had 1 night booked in Yosemite ...
The hike from Heaven
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
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 ...