snowy creek to yosemite falls

[ryanmj]

Im planning on hiking up snowy creek falls to north dome and down yosemite falls this friday. Will their be any where along the trail that i can fill up on water besides the top of yos. falls ? Also does anyone know how many miles it will be ? ive read that its 17 miles and 22 miles.

[dan]

Nit: It's Snow Creek, not Snowy Creek.

Yes, there's water. Snow Creek has water. Indian Creek has water, as does Lehemite Creek. The later 2 are closer to (east of) Yosemite Point. It's kind of dry around North Dome.

If you go to North Dome, don't miss Natural Arch. It's on the 7.5' topo. Just follow the ridge (and trail) that heads north from North Dome along the top of the ridge. You can't miss it. It's a mile or so (more or less) north of North Dome.

Here's a map that shows most of the route, and much of the mileage:
http://www.yosemite.ca.us/maps/yosemite ... p_2006.pdf

I've never done the whole thing in one day (I've done all of it in separate trips). Friends of mine did it in one day in winter. They started at sunrise and got back at sunset. Hard trudging through snow. Not a problem in Summer, but it's still a LONG day.

[Hikin Mike]

I assume this is not going to be a day hike.

I've been to the Snow Creek trail, North Dome and Yosemite Falls....but not on the same trip. I know there is a bridge on the top of Snow Creek, but I've never been past that.

Went to North Dome via the Porcupine Creek Trail. Water is scarce though. I think we filled our water at Lehamite Creek.

[ryanmj]

thanks for the info guys, yes were planning on doing it in one day, last summer we did clouds rest from the valley in about 10 hours so im hoping this is not much further or a hike, I did the north dome from porcupine flats in early july but the valley was real smokey so i figured id give it another shot. Indian arch is awesome, I will deffinetly be stopping by their again.