Day 10 – 13: Yosemite National Park
The scale of nature in Yosemite National Park is simply off the charts. Everything seems huge: giant rocks formed by glaciers, massive waterfalls that pour over them, and 300 foot giant sequoias that climb high into the sky.
We spent 3 days in Yosemite National Park. One full day to tour Yosemite Valley on our bicycles (which I would highly recommend), where I took approximately 50 pictures of Half Dome trying to get a decent shot. A second day was dedicated to seeking out enormous trees. The equivalent of a third day was consumed by traveling to and from the park.
In our search for giant trees, we went for a “moderately strenuous” hike in Merced Grove that was supposed to be about 3 miles round trip. It was a beautiful morning and we were having a delightful conversation and completely missed this super important sign that would have pointed us in the direction of the action grove and turned our 3 mile hike into a 6 mile hike.
We did manage to find the Giant Sequoias…eventually. It’s pretty hard to capture how tall a 300 foot tree really is on a cell phone camera, but this is what I got.
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