AWe took a trip up to the North-West corner of the park today, to the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. The subject of much political wrangling in the early part of the 20th Century, the O’Shaughnessy Dam now stands across the mouth of the Tuolomne River and the reservoir provides water to San Francisco. Hetch Hetchy is …
We decided to spend the weekend in and around Yosemite Valley. To get there from the Lodge we had to pass through the Wawona Tunnel, which opens out on a spectacular view of the Valley and its main points of interest- El Capitan, Half Dome, Bridalveil Falls, Sentinel Rock and others whose names escape me …
In honour of our massive lodge with its massive kitchen, I cooked pancakes for breakfast, which we had with bacon and maple syrup. After a leisurely morning getting our bearings and consulting maps, we headed towards Mariposa Grove with the intention of getting the tram up to Wawona Point, which the guidebooks we had bought …
After a hearty breakfast and some food shopping, we left San Francisco to drive to Yosemite for the next stop on our trip. In order to head north on the 101, we had to cross the Golden Gate Bridge, so we stopped at the Vista Point on the Marin County side for a photo opportunity. …