11/19 Yosemite National Park day one. We head into the park, we are about a half hour from the park and an hour and a half from Yosemite Valley. On the way to the park we go through the Stanislaus National Forest where most of the Rim Fire took place. Over 400 square miles we go to an overlook where you can see a lot of it. It certainly makes quite an impression. The park service is working hard to control errosion and restore some of the areas where they bull dozed and made fire lines. We have a chance at the look out to talk to a forest service forester. It really involved a huge area in very rough terrain. When we checked in to the RV park the owner gave us some ideas on how to see as much as we could in a limited time so we follow his suggestions. It is quite a long ride into the park with over 2000 feet of elevation change up then down. We go to bridal falls first and take the trail up to the base of the falls. At this time of the year most to the major falls are dry. While bridal falls is small it is still flowing. After the falls we head away from the valley out Wawona road through the tunnel and then turnaround and head back in. You get a great view of the park coming back through the park and there is a great view area just after the tunnel. We go down into the valley, I know I keep saying you words cannot do it justice nor can pictures and this is certainly another example of that. We take some nice pictures but they really do not look like the real thing. The guys do the Jr Ranger program, one of the things we do for it is a Ranger Guided tour. We take a walking history tour with one of the senior rangers Shelton Johnson. It was amasing. He is in the parks official movie and is a published author and he does a great tour. Great day. Most pictures will have to wait till I have a better connection
Posted on: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 04:45:39 +0000
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