Woohoo! Day đź’Ż We made it. And not to shabby of a place to spend it.
We knew we had 2 good days of weather before the storm was coming back so we decided to do our big hike today.
The goal was the top of Nevada Falls. The mist trail is closed in winter so it was the first time I’ve used the John Muir Trail to get to the top. But hiking up to the falls brings back lots of memories. We used to come to Yosemite every summer and camp with a few other Corpus families. We spent lots of family time here. It’s nice to have my mom back on the trail and keep her hiking.
Mom turned around at this point which was probably equivalent to getting up to Vernal Falls, but we couldn’t see it, again because we were on the John Muir a trail instead of the Mist Trail. Snow/ice started on the trail so it was time for mom to turn around, but she’s pretty neat that she can still miles uphill!! We brought our crampons we bought in Bryce so we were good to go.
The unfortunate part of my mom turning around was only a few switchbacks later we caught a view of Nevada Falls.
Another little over a mile more and we made it up the top.
By the time we walked back to RV it ended up being an 8 mile hike. Longer than I predicted with the additional mileage of the John Muir Trail and walking from and back to the campground. We had tired feet. Only 1/2 of the half dome trip.
We rested at home for a bit before we went to our nightly vigil at the Awahanee fireplace. There ended up being “storytelling” this evening.
Bobcat was here again tonight. We met him last night warming by the fire, this morning walking around. And again here. We are now friends.
