Re: First time to Yosemite, help with itinerary
Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2021 4:26 pm
CR is a knife edge summit. It's narrow with a bunch of slabs and a very big drop. Pick the highest rock, aim the camera with Half Dome in the background, take a knee..... Oh, there'll be plenty of people around...
I want to make sure you're clear on what LYV is and where it is. It's still about 6 miles from the valley floor. To do what's technically the backpacker's camp and have pizza, you have to exit the trail system at Happy Isles, exactly where you entered it.
So, she's insisting on seeing GP huh? Get up at 4 am and drive on up if you want to see the sunrise. It takes about an hour and a half, and you need to walk over to go get the car at Curry Village parking lot (10 mins). Hmmmm- you'll both be rested and clean (not sweaty as hell and smelly), have snacks, and put a burning desire on her part to see it together with a sunrise that you all but make happen, and add this: https://www.nps.gov/media/webcam/view.h ... 0658CED5EF and tell me she wouldn't also dig being proposed to there (and there are better view angles). I have opinions, but I don't make this stuff up...it's a beautiful place. And besides all those everyday type things to do like pledging your love forever to someone, there's plenty to do up there for hiking...Taft, Sentinel, fissures...as much of the Panorama as matters...
and btw- that peak just to the left and up of Half Dome in the webcam shot is Cloud's Rest.
I want to make sure you're clear on what LYV is and where it is. It's still about 6 miles from the valley floor. To do what's technically the backpacker's camp and have pizza, you have to exit the trail system at Happy Isles, exactly where you entered it.
So, she's insisting on seeing GP huh? Get up at 4 am and drive on up if you want to see the sunrise. It takes about an hour and a half, and you need to walk over to go get the car at Curry Village parking lot (10 mins). Hmmmm- you'll both be rested and clean (not sweaty as hell and smelly), have snacks, and put a burning desire on her part to see it together with a sunrise that you all but make happen, and add this: https://www.nps.gov/media/webcam/view.h ... 0658CED5EF and tell me she wouldn't also dig being proposed to there (and there are better view angles). I have opinions, but I don't make this stuff up...it's a beautiful place. And besides all those everyday type things to do like pledging your love forever to someone, there's plenty to do up there for hiking...Taft, Sentinel, fissures...as much of the Panorama as matters...
and btw- that peak just to the left and up of Half Dome in the webcam shot is Cloud's Rest.