Ashara and Terry's Adventures: Yosemite

We got to Yosemite on Friday. Yosemite is one of my favorite places in the world. Driving in on highway 120 we saw a small amount of the destruction left by the "Yosemite Rim Fire." There were still smoldering trees here and there, but we didn't see any real fire.

The most noticeable fact here was the lack of water coming over the falls. Yosemite Falls was completely dry and Bridalveil Falls had just a bit of a mist at the very top. We could tell Nevada and Vernal Falls had a little water by the outlet stream flow, but just as we were going to hike in to Vernal Falls it started raining.

As we were leaving we noticed a number of climbers on El Capitan, a couple of which were in tents hanging from the wall thousands of feet up.

Though it rained all the way to Glacier Point, the sun did come out for a few minutes for us to see the valley and take some pictures. We did get to see the Nevada and Vernal falls from high above the valley floor. As we left there the rain/snow/sleet/hail returned to make driving very slow. We also saw numerous Deer and a fox, all of which were not to scared of us humans.