Picked up granddaughters Megan & Katie at Sacramento airport and
drove to Yosemite. California highway 240 leads to the park from
Fresno area - in one place rises 4000 feet in 8 miles around switchbacks with no guardrails and lots of free drop. White knuckles - but made it OK - now feel like I can drive the rig almost anywhere.
Yosemite is unlike anything we've seen to this point. In the Sierra Nevadas, the mountains are solid granite with sheer cliffs and many with tops rounded by the glaciers.
We drove to the valley floor and boarded this trolley for a tour narrated by a park ranger.
These shots were all taken from that tour.
Just breathtaking scenery everywhere you look.
After the tour, stopped at the trailhead for lower Yosemite Falls and walked about a mile in to the base of the falls.
On our way in, Megan yelled "there's a bear !!" Sure enough, the one below walked right across the path in front of us. I was reminded that you don't have to run faster than the bear, just faster than the slowest in your party. No need - he didn't want to have anything to do with us.
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