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Top 10 Yosemite Waterfalls
After all the years we’ve visited, re-visited, camped, backpacked, and explored Yosemite National Park, it’s about time that we compile a list of the Top 10 Best Yosemite Waterfalls. Indeed, we’re quite familiar with this treasure of our home state…
Five Must See Yosemite Waterfalls in a Three-Day Weekend
We’ve been to Yosemite National Park countless times. However, if you’re new to visiting this national treasure, the suggestions and choices could be a bit overwhelming…
Top 10 California Waterfalls
Our Top 10 Best California Waterfalls List was long overdue as we had been refraining from coming up with this list until we felt we had enough of a sampling for an expose like this to be legitimate..
Yosemite With Baby Itinerary – June 2, 2011 to June 4, 2011
With our daughter not quite 5 months old, we did this trip as another test of what we can and can’t do with a baby. We also brought Julie’s Mom along since we figured that this would be a pretty easy trip as far as the amount of sightseeing and hiking that we were doing…
“Something New Every Time” (Yosemite National Park, CA – June 2, 2011 to June 4, 2011)
Julie was having an interesting time trying to reach back into her memories to try to see where the flooded sections of the trail were. The dangers of that day were nowhere apparent on this day…
Yosemite Firefall Itinerary – February 24, 2006 to February 26, 2006
This itinerary of our weekend visit to Yosemite National Park was all about catching the firefall as it was one of the few things left that I didn’t try from The Photographer’s Guide to Yosemite by Michael Frye….
“Chasing the Firefall” (Yosemite – February 24, 2006 to February 26, 2006)
Driven by the thought of trying to get that sought-after firefall, my wife and I went on another spontaneous Yosemite trip. I was concerned about my old 1990 Legend making it…
Southern Yosemite Redux Weekend with the Parents Itinerary – May 19, 2004 to May 22, 2004
This itinerary covered a return trip to the quiet southern part of Yosemite National Park. And like the first time around, we did it as a camping trip out of the Wawona Campground. Indeed, with a trip like this where we based ourselves away…
Yosemite Weekend with Mom Itinerary – March 19, 2004 to March 21, 2004
This itinerary covered a weekend at Yosemite National Park that I cynically referred to as the “change-in-company-vacation-policy” trip because they essentially changed the rules in such a way that I either had to use some vacation hours or lose them…
“Small World” (Yosemite – March 19, 2004 to March 21, 2004)
With reduced maximum vacation hours in lieu of sick leave hours, I had to take a vacation or lose some of those hard-earned hours. That sucks! So, where should I go on a spontaneous trip?
Yosemite Half Dome Camping Trip Itinerary – June 6, 2003 to June 8, 2003
This weekend itinerary covered our camping trip in Yosemite National Park centered around a hike to the top of iconic Half Dome. The trip planning started from the moment I had made camping reservations 24 weeks in advance…
“Bagging Half Dome” (Half Dome Hike – June 7, 2003)
Now that the proposal was over, the task before us was the physical challenge. With logistics out of the way, we now faced the big hike we trained two months for. The moment of truth was upon us…
Yosemite Group Itinerary – May 30, 2002 to June 2, 2002
This trip was the very first time that we explored Yosemite National Park with the primary purpose of visiting waterfalls (or waterfalling, if you will). Since I’d imagine we were in the infant stages of our waterfall addiction, it turned out that the timing of this trip…
“Locked Out” (Panorama Trail – May 31, 2002 to June 1, 2002)
It took a while to get the car shuttle set up for the one-way Panorama Trail. Plenty of drama as thunderstorms threatened to sabotage our planned hike. But even as we returned…