We decided to get out of the Bay area on Sunday to avoid traffic. We crossed the Richmond San Rafael bridge - the one that pancaked during the last earthquake and we were on the underside - and drove through Oakland. We continued across the San Joaquin valley and along route 120 to Yosemite. They have (free) shuttle buses that take tourists around to all the sites in the valley (in an effort to minimize the effect of cars on the fragile environment). We saw Half Dome, and El Capitan - a verticle granite rock face several 1000 feet high and with a number of courageous climbers as "dots" on the wall. Unfortunatly all the waterfalls are dry at this time of year so we will have to return in the spring on another trip. We hiked up towards Vernal Falls because the stream below actually had water in it, but only our ankles were strong with the changing of gears and braking on the bikes, so we only made it about 80 % of the way, a feat given the climb.
We decided to get out of the Bay area on Sunday to avoid traffic. We crossed the Richmond San Rafael bridge - the one that pancaked during the last earthquake and we were on the underside - and drove through Oakland. We continued across the San Joaquin valley and along route 120 to Yosemite. They have (free) shuttle buses that take tourists around to all the sites in the valley (in an effort to minimize the effect of cars on the fragile environment). We saw Half Dome, and El Capitan - a verticle granite rock face several 1000 feet high and with a number of courageous climbers as "dots" on the wall. Unfortunatly all the waterfalls are dry at this time of year so we will have to return in the spring on another trip. We hiked up towards Vernal Falls because the stream below actually had water in it, but only our ankles were strong with the changing of gears and braking on the bikes, so we only made it about 80 % of the way, a feat given the climb.
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