If you recall from my post about Christmas, you'll know that Will planned a weekend in Yosemite National Park for my Christmas gift. Yosemite is only about three hours and twenty minutes away from Oakland, so it was the perfect weekend roadtrip destination. We stayed at Yosemite View Lodge, which is just a four minute drive to the Southwest entrance of the park. On Friday we did a lot of exploring of the Yosemite Valley and cooked dinner in our room at the lodge.
 |
| On the deck of our hotel room, over looking the Merced River. |
 |
| Driving into the Valley. |
 |
| Will on the Sierra Club! |
 |
| At night it did this crazy thing where it got foggy from the ground up. It got higher and more dense as time went by, and quickly, too, over a time span of just a few minutes you could notice it rising up. |
 |
| Cooking dinner in the room. |
On Saturday we went hiking/snowshoeing in the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias. There were some amazingly tall trees there. Some of the oldest and tallest sequoias in the country!
 |
| The Grizzly Giant! |
 |
| Once a tree hugger, always a tree hugger : ) |
On Sunday we woke to very foggy skies which meant snow in the Valley and most other parts of Yosemite! Instead of attempted to drive the snow and ice covered roads of the mountains, we decided to stay in the Valley, which was perfect because we hadn't yet seen Yosemite Falls. We also ate lunch at the historic Ahwahnee Hotel.
 |
| View from our porch. |
 |
| Lower Yosemite Falls |
Thanks for an adventurous weekend, Will! One of the best gifts ever!
Comments
Post a Comment