For the last three weeks of our trip here in California before we head to China, we are staying just outside of the Yosemite Valley. We made our first venture in several days ago and saw nature at its best. The valley is breathtaking with rushing rapids, granite walls, snowy mountains, and many waterfalls. We’re planning on making several trips into the park to do some site seeing and hiking. It's taken me several days to get the first post up due to not having very good internet connection up here. Anyway, here’s part 1 of our journey into the heart of the park.
Glacier Point and Half Dome- Glacier point is a lookout 30 miles above the valley floor where you get an amazing view of Yosemite and Half Dome.
El Capitan- A massive granite monolith that stands 3593 feet from base to summit. There is a small newly formed fall off to the left.
Bridalveil Falls- Couldn’t get any great photos of this fall. You walk through a maze of trees and arrive at the base where the mist and rushing water fall directly on the path. I took a nice bath here! :P
Yosemite Falls- The highest measured waterfall in North America, it measures 2425 feet from top of the upper falls to the bottom of the falls. During the summer around August, the falls sometimes slow to a trickle allowing climbers to scale the fall. However, one good rainfall up in the mountains can start the falls again sending the climbers down into the pool plunge!
Me and Honey!
The last picture of the falls "the on with the trees looking through to
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