For whatever reasons i did not have as high expections of it as i did Zion and The Grand Canyon. Our first day there was pretty easy and not incredibly exciting, mostly spent it hiking around Mariposa Grove looking at giant tree's, which are actually quite amazing, but if you are a photographer giant tree's are pretty limiting.
they are just so damn big and very nearly impossible to capture, i tried my best
but then we came around the bend into yosemite valley and saw the dome as the sunset.
we quickly capture a few images and drove down to the valley for camping where i spent the rest of the night sleeping in the tent terrified of the bears wandering about in darkness.
The following day we did the hike to vernal falls, and the emerald pond where we were convinced by a few german tourists to jump off one of the cliffs into the pool below vernals falls. It was cold, most likely illegal, but all together one of the most exhilarating things i've ever done.
when laura and i started the trip we had put together a list of things we needed to do, one of the
m happened to be jump off a waterfall. These were mostly jokes, but in the end almost all of them were done.after coming back from the long hike up to vernal falls we had one thing left to do, drive all the way to olmstead point so i could get a photo a desperately wanted. its not every day you get to watch the sunset behind a tree sticking precariously out of a rock slab in front of the entire yosemite valley.
the drive there was like something you see on the news, a forest fire had come through and closed multiple roads leaving only a short window of the day that you could access the road to olmstead point, and vision on the road was completely blocked by smoke at points...especially at night on the drive back.
when we arrived at the campsite i spent another night afraid of the bears...its not really a fear so much of the actual bears as having a flap next to your head and the fear of bear face looking at you through it.
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