Day 1, Half Dome, arrived in the evening and scoped things out
Half Dome from the Curry Villiage parking lot
Day 2, riding rental bikes around, we visit Happy Isles
View from Happy Isles
A plaque at Happy Isles
Doris through a tree
Very green leaves on a tree in the nearby marsh
We rode to Mirror Lake
Mirror Lake info
Doris wouldn't drop this one (on that info board)
Mt. Watkins reflects on Mirror Lake
Another Mirror Lake info tidbit
Doris and a redwood
Upper Yosemite Fall
Eating lunch at Yosemite Fall
Lower Yosemite Fall
Doris at Lower Yosemite Fall
Me at Lower Yosemite Fall
Leidig Meadow, note the dragonflies
Us at Leidig Meadow
Doris near Swinging Bridge
Boy jumping from Swinging Bridge
Dude diving off Swinging Bridge
Kid jumping from Swinging Bridge
Woman airborne off Swinging Bridge
The Chapel
River rafters
These guys got stuck
Doris riding the rental bike
Following Doris on her bike
Me, in action
The Story of Half Dome
View from Sentinel Bridge
Doris hurt her knee falling off her bike
Half Dome from Mirror Lake (we went again)
Half Dome from a little beyond Mirror Lake
Doris and Mt. Watkins at Mirror Lake
Me and Mt. Watkins at Mirror Lake
This deer (and two others) wandered by
Doris cringed at this because it says "riparian" (on the right)
Sun sets on Half Dome
Sun is going...
Going...
Going...
Gone.
Day 3, we prepare for the Mist Trail hikes
We went to Little Yosemite Valley and Nevada Falls
Vernal Falls from the first bridge
The Powerbar wrapper attracted this guy, so we fed him... nothing.
Vernal Falls
Me at Vernal Falls
Rainbow at the base of Vernal Falls
Top of Vernal Falls
Doris at the top of Vernal Falls
Me at the top of Vernal Falls
Bridge at the Silver Apron area
Doris on the bridge
Looking downstream from the bridge
Nevada Falls
Doris keeps climbing... 2000 feet up in all
Me, further up the trail
End of the Mist Trail
All the signs were neat like this
Reverse angle, towards Nevada Falls
Doris didn't flush (it was a hole in the ground)
The top of Nevada Falls, from the bridge over it
Liberty Cap from Nevada Falls
B&W of Liberty Cap
Looking down Nevada Falls
Looking down Nevada Falls
Doris's biking injury, still nasty looking
One of the Israelis at Nevada Falls that fed us
Neat tree
B&W of the tree
We backtracked a bit and visited Little Yosemite Valley
People with their llamas
Llama-llama-ding-dong
Liberty Cap and orange berries
View of Nevada Falls from John Muir Trail (our path back)
Dining room inside the Ahwanhnee (the fancy hotel)
15-second, ISO400 night shot of a mountain (noisy on my camera)
Day 4, Tunnel View before we left Yosemite Valley for Tuolumne Meadows
We stopped for lunch at Tenaya Lake
Doris was happy to be there
Doris played in the water
Doris rests on a tree
We got to Tuolumne Meadows
Soda Springs, where carbonated water comes from the ground
Soda Springs hut thing
Inside of the hut
It just kept bubbling up
More Soda Springs bubbles
Doris takes a drinking break at Soda Springs in Tuolumne Meadows
Parsons Lodge which used to be a Sierra Club hangout
Bruin Baffle, a storage shed clearly left by some Trojans
Doris was confused as UCLA left her unprepared
I too was baffled by this structure
McCauley Cabin, near Parsons Lodge and Bruin Baffle
Lembert Dome
People riding horses around the area
From the bridge, the stream and Lembert Dome
Sitting on the bridge, Doris and Johnson Peak
From Olmsted Point, the back of Half Dome
Neat tree at Olmsted Point
Doris fell, adding more to her injuries