Hello --- planning to camp near Half-Dome in a few weeks. Permits are all secured, including HD. Will be coming from the Clouds Rest side -- and would prefer not to camp in backpackers campground in Little Yosemite Valley.
Was reading on the park's web site the following restrictions:
"The first camping available is at the Little Yosemite Valley Campground. Camping is not permitted between Yosemite Valley and Little Yosemite Valley. If you would like to camp in a dispersed Wilderness setting, you must be at least two miles past the campground (at or beyond either Moraine Dome or the Half Dome/John Muir Trail junction)."
So I guess the question would be whether there are good sites a little further up the HD trail (towards HD itself, but well prior to where it becomes exposed rock) -- perhaps a nice place or two to scamper from the main trail towards a nice perch on the edge of Yosemite Valley. ??
Anyway -- does this sound possible? If any thoughts on this, would love to hear them - thank you.