Yosemite National Park
In July 2002 I was visiting California on business trip and popped up to San Francisco to take a three day guided mini-van tour to Yosemite national park. The following are from our first full day in the park.
See also: day 2 photos
Note: Click on any image to see a larger one. They're all about 800x600 pixels and only fairly small. roughly 100k.
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Here's our group on the way up Mt something-or-other. We were are kinda mini United-Nations as we had a Brazilian, Belgians, English, Germans, Japanese, South Africans, Yugoslavian, a Yank and of course a particularly good looking kiwi lad. |
| On the way up we had to make way for a couple of pack horses. Our guide reckons they were replenishing supplies in park huts, but I reckon the old dude on the front horse was just being lazy. |  |
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First stop for the day was a wee lake about half way up the mountain. Time for a toilet break and a few photos. At this stage we had plenty of confidence in our fitness. We hadn't really started climbing yet though. |
| Here's a view looking back down from the lake mentioned above. This is some amazing contry, with view like this (sans water) pretty much wherever you look.. |  |
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Now we were getting loads higher finally. Here's a view looking back down the route we'd come up. You can just make out the track winding down the slope. |
| Just below the summit of the climb we came accross a sheltered rocky area that still had snow in it from the Winter. This was pretty freaky considering it was mid-summer. Of course we were at 11,000 feet at this point. |  |
See also: day 2 photos