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DAY 3:
Always start the day with a good breakfast:
A quiet breakfast.
Fried eggy goodness.
Camp duties for everyone!
Both boys were happy helpers.
First stop- Moro Rock. It was tall, made of granite, full of steps and had great views.
At the bottom, on the way up.
One of the many views at the top. Can't remember the names of all the mountains in the distance. Sadly, one can't see Mt Whitney unless one backpacks in.
After Moro Rock, we went to the famous fallen sequoias- the one you used to be able to drive over, and the one you can still drive through.
How many people have this pic with their own car? It had its own bypass!
I think this was the Mississippi tree’s roots.
Big Roots.
One particular amazement of this trip was the BEARS! The topography here has ‘meadows’, where water has pooled on the granite into marshes, trees have fallen down and ‘dissolved’ and the resulting area is open and full of nutritional goodness for the wildlife. Up until a month ago, the park was still covered with snow, so the bears are coming out to eat as much as possible and put the pre winter weight back on. There are also cubs that need to eat. We saw bears in almost all of the meadows, every day we were there. By the end of the trip, we were a bit blase 😉 To be honest, there were a couple of moments where I was petrified.
First sighting: Mother and 2 cubs on the way down from Moro rock.
Lone bear, in some meadow.
There's a baby bear in the tree. Can you see it?
This is the mother of the babies in the tree. She had put them there, because there was a young male ambling towards them.
Here's the young bear on his way over. The mother is now up the tree herself (on the left), making alot of growly noises. I would have liked to have run away at this point.
Some bear, on a hike.
Some bear, just after a nap.
There are a few more photos like this…
Where we had the best bear sightings, was on the Crescent trail, which goes around Crescent meadow. John Muir called it the “Gem of the High Sierra”.
Still a bit snowy, Crescent Meadow.
The wee boys on the Crescent Hike. I believe they were on the way to seeing the ‘bear’s bathtub’
The end of the hike: the Washington Tree (we think- it didn’t have a sign, and the trail had kind of dissappeared):
Big, burned out tree.
DAY 4: Tokopah falls. The hike was easy, with the promise of seeing some fantastic falls.
We're going that-a-way.
Near the top, some needed shade in the granite.
It was too much to photgraph, but here's one of many tries.
Happy boys in the shade.
Spot the snake!
The hike was hot, so the boys filled their hats with snow and put them on their heads, at points along the way.
Mo' liz!
Last pic! Yes, that’s a deer right beside our cabin. It was there for quite a while, even after we got out of the car. As far as I know, people aren’t stupid enough to feed the deer, so maybe since we’re not killing them, they’re used to us?
Look what was waiting for us when we got back.
So there it is- a fab trip 🙂 Now it’s back to the grind of summer holidays… sniffsniff.
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