Living or visiting ...California...Have you ever been to Yosemite National Park?

[Stuart G]

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In California.at a place called Yosemite National Park
there is an overlook, at the top of a road...looking down 3000 feet....twice the height as the Empire State Building. (Glacier Point)
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Take a look at Yosemite, incredible pictures...(about 250 miles east of San Francisco)..about 5 hour drive away from San Francisco ...(drive east...yes, if you leave very early like 6am, you can go to this park in a day..and return to San Francisco the same day....lots of driving...but this one is worth the drive) You will get back to San Francisco very late at night...like about 1am, but if you have never been to Yosemite,,then you got to go. Yes the pictures below are for real....I've been there..Yes, it is that beautiful,..If you hit the link below...that is if, then hit another link at that link, called...Glacier Point.You will see incredible pictures of that place...

...at this link below:


https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1T4GGNI_enUS494US495&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=yosemite+valley&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjb87_CiOvqAhUCca0KHVMQCgoQsAR6BAgHEAE&biw=1280&bih=585&dpr=1.25

[onecaliberal]

1. Yup. I have a yearly pass. We live very close to Yosemite.

It is a must see if you can swing it.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. Better check that things are open first. nt

[drray23]

3. when i was at stanford university

I would do the 3 hour drive every single weekend to spend time camping and climbing on saturday and sunday there

[secondwind]

4. Been to both. Breathtakingly beautiful. Thanks for the memories!

[Shrike47]

5. Yes. Last time we went, in May a few years ago, it was too crowded. It was, of course, beautiful.

[jmowreader]

6. Next year I'm going to drive Route 120 through the park

[hunter]

7. In the winter it's much less crowded, if you don't mind the cold...

... and accept the possibility the most famous views will be obscured by clouds at the time of your visit, or roads will be closed by snow.

To fully appreciate Yosemite you can't spend too much time in your car. You should spend most of your visit walking or wheeling around. There are few excuses not to. Handicapped accessibility has been vastly improved compared to what it was forty or fifty years ago.

My first visit to Yosemite was in the winter, on a college field trip. Overnight it snowed and then cleared. The valley was breathtakingly beautiful.

[Stuart G]

9. The vally is, was, and always will be beautiful. Some of the views are incredible

...Yes, I have been around for lots of views. Paris, London, Tokyo, Yellowstone Park, etc. Some of the views at
Yosemite are unmatched or equal to almost anything. Looking straight down 3200 feet across a valley at the top of a cliff is very unusual.

The view at Preikestolen, is also incredible. (in Norway) Post #7 by The Velveteen Ocelot at link below

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181386149

[Dem2theMax]

8. I used to live just 8 1/2 miles outside the park entrance!

Little place called Buck Meadows. It's still there. I wish I was still there!

It's on Highway 120. On the west side of Yosemite. Population of 31. I just checked. It's gone down by one person since I lived there.

If you head to Yosemite by way of 120 and Buck Meadows, here's a great place to stop on your way to Yosemite if you'd like a nice swim.

Rainbow Pool. My old stomping ground. I wish I could go back and relive it over and over and over, just like in Groundhog Day.

Just found this video on YouTube. Apparently, it's been discovered. It was never this busy when I lived there. When the waterfalls aren't really strong like they are in this video, you can actually swim in behind them, and there's a natural rock ledge where you can sit. It's wonderful! And quite cold.

[Brother Buzz]

10. Joseph R. Walker may or may not have been the first white man to discover Yosemite

There is speculation he may have seen Hetch Hetchy Valley next to it to the north, which was, by all accounts just as spectacular as Yosemite valley. That is until they built a damn dam and filled it.




Capt Walker had ONE extraordinary week, after struggling to cross the Sierra in the winter of 1833; his company resorted to eating their pack horses to stave of starvation

In one remarkable week, he marveled at a grove of Sequoia gigantea (Sierra Redwood), spied Yosemite, experienced an extraordinary meteor shower (Leonids, meteor shower) and actually heard the meteors fall to earth, experienced an earthquake, then pushed on the the Pacific ocean only to discover a beached sperm whale (his men had never seen an ocean before and had trouble wrapping their minds around the size of the toothed whale).