Yosemite National Park

Until 2001, during my 37th birthday, I had never before visited Yosemite National Park. This surprises me then and now - after all, California is my home state and Yosemite is only one days' drive from my home. But there it is.

Since 2001, I have visited a number of times:

2003 - a quick swing through the Park on my way from the Kings Canyon National Park and Sequoia National Park in the western Sierra Nevada mountains to Mammoth in the east
2004 - a planned, 5-day camping trip in Tuolumne Meadows in the eastern part of the Park
2007 - a planned 2-day trip in Tuolumne Meadows as part of a larger camping trip throughout the state of California
2008 - a planned, 4-day camping trip in Yosemite Valley in which I visited pretty much every part of the Park (except Wawona)
2009 - a very quick, 2-day trip to Tuolumne Meadows because I really wanted to see the Mountains
2010 - a 3-day trip designed to see the Park when there was snow

I have spent most of my time exploring the wonders of the Yosemite Wilderness in the east in the Tuolumne Meadows area; most of what you will see here is from there. I have varied my more recent trips between spending time in the Valley and the Meadows; while a beautiful place, the valley is very congested and I don't enjoy my time there quite so much as I do in the higher Sierras.

Yosemite National Park

Yosemite Valley Area

Glacier Point and Wawona Areas

Tioga Road

Tuolumne Meadows Area

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