Comfort Inn Mariposa

... and came across a "Ask a Climber" programme, where they had a climber available to answer questions, and 2 telescopes pointed on El Capitan, so you could see the climbers like little ants. Lyn spent ages talking to the climber, who was young, female and tiny! She has climbed El Capitan in a day,a nd slept out on there in a cot more than a hundred times.<br><br>We carried on further down the river, and finally stopped to have a paddle. There were more people around; safety in numbers ...

Yosemite Part Deux We returned from San Francisco with our hearts back into climbing. In fact, even the journey to Yosemite was interesting. We picked up a ride through Craigslist at 7am. Our driver: Dave, a musician and ex bass player for many bands over the years ...

... into our beds at 5pm to hide from the snow and cold<br><br><br>Ben and Lindsey loving the view over Little Yosemite Valley &#8211; what&#8217;d you know, more rock to climb!<br><br><br>Ben Glenn and Eric on the summit of Half Dome<br><br><br>Looking down the face of Half Dome to the ...

... with the high cliffs and mountains along with the the landscape of the remaining forest mixed in with huge rocks and a river that ran through them both and just off in the distance a waterfall that looked a long way up (5th highest in the world the "ask ranger" magazine would tell me later) it was all very impacting. A few tunnels and mountaines roads later we arrived at the camp, "curry village". As we entered and waited to get our key, i watched the video that was ...

Day 185 Yosemite - Mariposa - California We left Bakersfield, all commenting about the nice park. No expense has been spared in creating this an RVer's friendly park. The route took us from dry arid country into a rise in elevation, but also, surprising enough into some farmland. Firstly cattle grazing country, then past some huge farms and cattle feed lots. It was an amazing transformation and this was also interspersed with fruit trees and ...

... the wildlife that we saw was probably the most exciting part of the day. We saw soooo many squirrels, and every time I was just as excited to see them! One ran in front of me on the path and grabbed an Acorn in its mouth, then jumped up onto a rock infront of us, pulled the Acorn out and started eating it. I LOVE squirrels. I wanna poke one! One the way back down we were having a rest at the first waterfall up the top by the river. Jason had his ...

... a secluded pool, as there appeared to be know one for miles around (we had only passed around half a dozen people all morning - which was surprising as there were so many people in the camp grounds) we stripped off and took a dip. Water was Baltic but really really refreshing after a sweaty hike. We slowly meandered back to the village for around dusk. We saw loads of squirrels, lizards, chip monk type things, birds, but no mountain lion or bears ...

... back towards the entrance. As we left the village there is a huge open meadow near Yosemite Creek. This is usually a good view of the Upper Yosemite Falls, however there was no water flowing from the 1430 foot high waterfall while we were there. However, there were some great trees and views of The Three Brothers, Eagle Peak and Half Dome. We took a few great photographs in the meadow and then headed back to the fork in the road, and this ...

... tough and slathered with boil-in-the-bag pepper sauce that Captain Birdseye would be ashamed to put on a square of cheap fish. It's recommended that this be eaten as soon as prepared. I'd recommend not eating it at all. Unfortunately the chef and waitress were so please that someone had finally ordered their special they came out to watch me eat it. All of it. We took the van up to the top of the mountain with the aim of walking down for 8 ...