Walt and Barb had to go home, but the rest of us tried our hand at finding a virtual geocache that had been set up by some family friends. Here's the info: Yosemite Virtual Cache
If you know the Valley well enough then you don't actually need a GPS to find all the places you're supposed to go. :-)
We all had bikes so we were able to travel from location to location on our bikes rather than walking or relying on shuttle service, and that was fun.
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| Our starting point, near the lower Yosemite Falls viewing area. Which is also the former site of a Miwok village. |
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| The water got really, really high in the valley on 1/2/97!!! |
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| The Swinging Bridge...which doesn't actually swing. Though probably it did originally, before one of those pesky floods destroyed it and they had to rebuild it. |
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| Nice reflection of Yosemite Falls near the bridge! |
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| And a nice view of the falls from the meadow, also. |
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| This flood marker is the tallest one that I've seen...I can't even imagine the amount of water necessary to flood the valley that deep! |
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| Sia suggested an interesting variation on taking the group photo here. |
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| Oh look...yet *another* view of Yosemite Falls! :-) |
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| The final waypoint - which was very close to where we had started. |
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| Staircase Falls, taken while eating lunch on the deck at the Curry Village Taqueria. :-) Another of the only-in-spring waterfalls, it falls 1300 feet from Glacier Point down the cliffs near Curry Village - the stream actually runs through the cabin area. |
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| Taken on an afternoon bike ride at Sentinel Bridge. |
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| Half Dome at sunset. |