Heading there in August
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 7:44 am
Hi folks,
Myself and my friend are heading out the West Coast on avacation in a few weeks time. On our itinerary includes a few days in San Fran, from where we intend to spend about three days trekking around Yosemite.
Plan is to hire a car in SF, then head towards the park, from there.... Thats where we run into "lack of knowledge" issues....!
We'll be hitting the park midweek, on a Tuesday or Wednesday we figure. I think on or around the 7th or 8th of August - will the park be crazy busy? What will finding accomodation be like? Should we pre book? Or would we be better of camping out?
Trek wise, we are relatively experienced hikers, myself extensive hiking and camping around Ireland, my companion, somewhat more experienced, having trekked in Africa and Asia, as well as Ireland.
We'd be looking for some intermediate trails I guess. In that case, could anyone recommend a loose itinerary, something around the three days, we'll have a vehicle, and plan (if possible) to stay in accomodation around the ark, as I gather there are extensive places to stay, having consulted the nationalparkreservations website that details places to stay. depending on the route of course, we could also camp - that wouldn't be a problem.
How about clothes? Obviously, we'll have the basics, good boots, poles, compass, etc. But what will the weather be like there at that time? Coming from Ireland we tend to pack and prepare for rain, wind, that sort of thing; for example, at the moment, it is high summer here - however the amount of rainfall we've experienced over the last few weeks has broken all records!
I've been trying to research this for a few days now - but being based in Ireland isn't a great help, I'd appreciate any advise or tips that anyone could have, concerning a route, suitable trails, where we could stay, etc.
Myself and my friend are heading out the West Coast on avacation in a few weeks time. On our itinerary includes a few days in San Fran, from where we intend to spend about three days trekking around Yosemite.
Plan is to hire a car in SF, then head towards the park, from there.... Thats where we run into "lack of knowledge" issues....!
We'll be hitting the park midweek, on a Tuesday or Wednesday we figure. I think on or around the 7th or 8th of August - will the park be crazy busy? What will finding accomodation be like? Should we pre book? Or would we be better of camping out?
Trek wise, we are relatively experienced hikers, myself extensive hiking and camping around Ireland, my companion, somewhat more experienced, having trekked in Africa and Asia, as well as Ireland.
We'd be looking for some intermediate trails I guess. In that case, could anyone recommend a loose itinerary, something around the three days, we'll have a vehicle, and plan (if possible) to stay in accomodation around the ark, as I gather there are extensive places to stay, having consulted the nationalparkreservations website that details places to stay. depending on the route of course, we could also camp - that wouldn't be a problem.
How about clothes? Obviously, we'll have the basics, good boots, poles, compass, etc. But what will the weather be like there at that time? Coming from Ireland we tend to pack and prepare for rain, wind, that sort of thing; for example, at the moment, it is high summer here - however the amount of rainfall we've experienced over the last few weeks has broken all records!
I've been trying to research this for a few days now - but being based in Ireland isn't a great help, I'd appreciate any advise or tips that anyone could have, concerning a route, suitable trails, where we could stay, etc.