Rain hadn’t been on the agenda when we set out a few days earlier, but sure enough - one day the skies went gray, thunder rolled through, and we found ourselves hiking in warm rain for a while. The reward was this - a spectacular but short-lived rainbow adjacent to the peak.
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Five film photos from Camp Mather, a summer camp run by the City of San Francisco for both residents and non-residents alike. Also some photos of Yosemite (Yosemite is a few miles away)
Some more Yosemite photos that I took on film using my trusty old Yashica medium format camera with no meter! That I also developed in my bathroom (Bellini C41 kit) and scanned (Fuji Frontier)!
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of exploring Yosemite backcountry with a couple of friends for five days. On our first night in the Cathedral Range, we arrived in camp after 8.5 miles hiking just as day turned to dusk, and a small lake lit up with perfect reflections of the mountain behind. An auspicious beginning.
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Had a glorious first day at @campmather. A dip in the pool and lake when we got in. Decent food cooked by someone else. A guided sunset hike with a naturalist where we saw lakes, heard nighthawks. I smelled a tree whose bark smelled like butterscotch. I made good coffee with my Jetboil / French press attachment.
Now we are going to see El Capitan and Half Dome, so my wife can see the wonderful things I saw when I previously hiked Yosemite without her: and how I climbed Half Dome!
Two photos from two visits to Yosemite: left, photo from Tunnel View today (with Clouds Rest and Half Dome circled). Right, photo from the top of Half Dome when I somehow decided to climb it in 2021.
.@YosemiteNPS, perhaps getting tired of questions about the Tioga Road, now says it may be open by the end of July. This will be latest opening since 1915, when the road was first dedicated for public use.
The road has sustained serious damage at several location. But from talking to a ranger up there, the bigger problem is the fact heavy snow loads wrecked or seriously damaged most of the park structures through the corridor.
The photo below was posted to Facebook and Twitter on 7/13 and is attributed to Sierra hiking guide author Elizabeth Wenk. It shows a stretch of the road just east of Olmsted Point. #Yosemite