YOSEMITE (National Park)

I finally made my way to Yosemite after visiting beautiful San Francisco. I hurt my shoulder in Austin and haven’t been able to climb much, but was able to do a nice long 21 mile hike by myself into the wilderness. I started at Happy Isles which is in Yosemite Valley, and made my way up to Clouds Rest by way of Little Yosemite Valley Campground. It was a beautiful place. My hike to Clouds Rest was everything and more I dreamed of when I first set out on my trip wanting to get out into the wilderness.

Clouds Rest was around 9500 feet and Yosemite Valley is at around 4,000 feet. This made for quite the uphill climb, but was well worth the view of Half Dome and all of Yosemite Valley. Clouds Rest, I just found out, is the highest peak near Yosemite Valley. w00t!

I met some great people at the communal fire pit at Little Yosemite Valley and made good use of my Steripen water purifier provided to me by the always gracious Jason Prohaska. Thanks Jason! So far I am parasite free! As long as I don’t get Diarrhea in the next 3 days I’d say I’m set!