Saturday, September 23, 2006
Yosemite
The peak of half dome, you can see the specks of people ascending the incredibly steep rock aided by cables.
After Half Dome I slept well, but the next day was able to go to the Tualomne Meadows which are some high altitude planes in the yosemite park where the native indians lived. I could feel the elevation at 8000ft.
I climbed up Lembert Dome which provided the best view I saw within the park (below, apoligies if sideways this computer it not very flexible) and then down to Dog Lake (9600ft!!) 
On the way back down to the hostel I could see accross to Half Dome almost 50mi away on the side I had ascended the previous day. A little further down the hill a black bear wandered across the road and went to munch some bushes on the other side of the road.
I met the tour bus the next day to go back, expecting to go via the Tualmne grove of Giant Sequoias (Redwoods) but there had been an argument that morning with the rest of the group and we were in fact going to go to the Mariposa grove where they have to oldest biggest of the trees, one of which is thought to be around 2700 years old... and another that is still alive but you can walk throught the centre of.
Below the Nevada falls and Rainbow, were one of only two falls not dependent on snow melt so they were in full swing at this time of year now the snow has gone.
(Thank you to Dan for rotating the images.)
Cheers,
Barny
