Camping Pictures at Tuolumne Meadows / Yosemite
Jessica and I went up to Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park for about 6 days. We went up with my old church, Calvary of Placentia. I hadn't been up here for at least 5 years, so I had a blast. It was also awesome to show some of these places to Jessica, who had never been here. |
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Day 1We got up to Tuolumne late in the morning, so we took a stroll up the river with my parents. |
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 Jessica and my mom look at Lembert Dome near the Tuolumne Meadows campground.
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 Mom and Dad by the river
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 Jessica and I near the Tuolumne River
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 Here I am trying to catch some trout.
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 Deer by the river
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 A deer crosses the stream.
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 Dad caught a big one.
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 Back at our camp site...
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 Dad playing the Jew's Harp.
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Day 2Today we went to Tioga Lake, just outside of Yosemite. The lake was supposedly stocked with trout, but we didn't catch any. We did find some fresh bear poop, and he was sighted in the area. On the way back to camp, Jessica and I decided to walk down to the Cascades. |
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 Jessica at Tioga Lake.
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 She actually went fishing!
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 I carried that stupid chair all the way around the lake
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 Another pic of Lake Tioga
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 This stream feeds Tioga Lake.
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 Jessica by the stream.
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 Jessica fishing at the Cascades along the Tuolumne River
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 She caught a fish!
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 Nice fish.
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 The lower meadow below the Cascades.
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 Toulumne Cascades in action.
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 Still trying to catch fish.
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 Jessica warming up.
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 Dad playing his guitar back at camp.
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Day 3Jessica and I went back to the Cascades. We caught some fish, but they were small. |
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 Another day, more fishing at the Cascades. |
 I caught a few at this beach along the river. |
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 This fish is a real whopper! No, that's not the bait.
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 More cascades.
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 A deer in the hills near the river
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 And her two baby deers.
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 Jessica and I on top of a big granite rock near the Cascades.
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Day 4I talked Jessica into hiking up to Gaylor / Granite Lakes, even though it was raining. Turns out that it rained all day long. We got back to camp early, so we went for a drive down to White Wolf campground. After all that, we sat in the motorhome and watched Black Hawk Down. |
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 Jessica and I brave the wind and rain to visit Gaylor and Granite lakes.
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 Pretty Gaylor lake, but it was raining.
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 The fog comes in over Lower Granite Lake
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 Jessica is not a happy camper.
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 Walking across the meadow back to Gaylor.
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 We stopped by Lake Tenaya on our drive.
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 Jessica on Tenaya.
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 Mountains over Tenaya.
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Day 5Jessica and I decided to walk to "Ten Lakes", which didn't seem to be that tough of a hike. The ranger lied! It turned out to be a 13 mile round trip hike. We climbed 2200 feet and then dropped back down almost a thousand to get to the lakes. Then we went back. It took about 3.5 hours each way. The lakes were beautiful, but I don't think I'll be going back any time soon. |
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 We start our long hike up to Ten Lakes. |
 Sooo far....
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 Big tree!
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 Jessica swatting flies.
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 This beautiful meadow surprised us.
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 Made it this far!
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 Near the top of the final ascent.
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 Jessica in the flowers. At this point we were almost dead.
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 The summit near Ten Lakes.
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 One of the Ten Lakes.
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 One of the Ten Lakes. That's a long way down.
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 That's the Grand Canyon of the Toulumne River.
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 Jessica on a rock.
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 Ten Lakes was really pretty.
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 The fish were jumping after the flies.
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 There's a fish.
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 At the summit on the way back... Soo tired.
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 A marmot
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 Marmot close up.
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 A different marmot
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 King marmot
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 Jessica is getting delirious
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 Back at that meadow.
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 Dork.
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 ok |
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Day 6On the last day, we went to Puppy Dome up the Tuolumne River, but we forgot to take the camera. Here are some pics of us heading home. |
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 Packing up camp. |
 Another shot of Lambert Dome.
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 $3.08 a gallon!
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 Horse butts.
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 Nice
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