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Yosemite Point, Yosemite National Park, is a steep hike up form the valley floor but offers tops along the iconic Yosemite Falls along the way

Yosemite Point Trail, via Yosemite Falls: Spring Snow and Snow Melt

May 8, ’19 · by Denise · in On Adventures, Yosemite Day Hike

Hands down, the weather during this late April hike up the Yosemite Falls trail is the best weather for hiking in Yosemite Valley… and I consider myself a connoisseur of day hikes in Yosemite. Here are my tips: Pick a cool morning (Starting temp: 48°F) Start hiking early (Starting Time: 8:15 AM) Wait until temps peak before hiking back down (75°F on this trip). Trust me – The blowing mist…

Snowshoeing to a Frozen Tokopah Falls, Sequoia National Park

Snowshoeing to a Frozen Tokopah Falls, Sequoia National Park

Feb 22, ’16 · by Denise · in On Adventures

Hiking guides for popular trails rarely have give a good impression of what you will find in the winter. For example, I just typed in “Tokopah Falls Winter” into Google image search, and that 5th image is not really winter. Pah-lease, Google. And forget about it when looking for postcards: As you can see, Tokopah Falls in the summertime looks like a familiar Sierra Nevada cascading fall tumbling down granite –…

Steverson Falls, Million Dollar Rd, CA

Stevenson Creek Falls, Redinger Lake & Million Dollar Road(biking)

Mar 17, ’15 · by Denise · in On Adventures

Here is the thing about winter in drought stricken California: There isn’t enough snow to do all the fun winter things, but the passes are still closed. Before you know it you are aimlessly clicking around of Google Earth trying to find something new and different and, most importantly, OPEN. This is how on the three day Presidents Day weekend Curtis and I ended up at driving around Redinger Lake, a…

Sweet Creek Falls

Sweet Creek Falls: Florence, Oregon #ThrowbackThursday

Nov 20, ’14 · by Denise · in On Adventures

Throwing back today to a great hike that I did in 2012 while visiting Curtis’s college friend Chris in Eugene, Oregon – Sweet Creek Falls. Our whole visit to Eugene was awesome, I remember thinking “I should blog about this” but for some reason never got around to it. There was so much good beer, good vegetarian food, and the Eugene farmers market is really top notch. Looking back that…

Mills Lake, RMNP

I could have spent all day at Mills Lake, if it weren’t for those pesky Rocky Mountain Thunderstorms

Sep 15, ’14 · by Denise · in On Adventures

I seriously love high altitude lakes, and Rocky Mountain National Park delivers. Yeah, and waterfalls are pretty cool too… but I am just being honest in saying Alberta Falls in RMNP – meh. Maybe there were just TOO many people for a modest amount of falling water (& Yosemite has spoiled me?). Mills Lake though is gorgeous. What I am saying is that if you are starting at the Glacial Gorge trail then the extra couple miles hike to Mills is worth it. I wish I had more time to explore past Mills Lake, but those thunderstorms can really kill a full day adventure. Oh well, better to be safe than sorry?…

Chilnualna Falls, Southern Yosemite

Chilnualna Falls, Yosemite: Big Waterfall, Tiny Crowd

May 14, ’14 · by Denise · in On Adventures, Yosemite Day Hike

Last year after backpacking past a very dry Chilnualna Creek my interest was peaked about the Chilnualna Falls located just a few short miles down the trail. Apparently I couldn’t go then – I had a firm nighttime destination besides the lake of any water to create falls – but stored in my memory I decided to check it out in the spring. This past weekend I decided to day hike the trail…

The hike to Tueeulala falls, Yosemite

Tueeulala Fall – Hetch Hetchy Valley’s Bridal Veil

Apr 18, ’14 · by Denise · in On Adventures, Yosemite Day Hike

Have you heard about the rock slide that happened in the beginning of this month in Hetch Hetchy? It is blocking the trail just past the Wapama Falls footbridges – meaning it shouldn’t affect day hikers too much, unless your game plan was to power hike to Rancheria Falls. Seriously, don’t let this deter you from enjoying Hetch Hetchy’s first two waterfalls, Tueeulala and Wapama falls, this spring. I was hiking in…

Foresta Falls Day Hike

Foresta Falls & McCauley Ranch on Yosemite’s West Side

Mar 11, ’14 · by Denise · in On Adventures, Yosemite Day Hike

This low snow winter has had me creating some more creative hiking endeavors: Mariposa’s Williams Peak, the”Secret” Sierra Point, and now Yosemite’s more “Elusive” waterfall – Foresta Falls. It is a nice short little hike, but with lots of room to explore around  the old McCauley Ranch and enjoy some sunshine. Actually come to think of it – it was pretty much the opposite of Sierra Point. At Foresta we hiked…

Secret Yosemite: Sierra Point

Secret Yosemite: Sierra Point

Feb 26, ’14 · by Denise · in On Adventures, Yosemite Day Hike

Alright, I will admit Sierra Point is apparently not a secret. We saw a dozen other people while on the “Trail” this Sunday… way more then I ever see hiking to Mt Watkins (one of my favorite off trail hikes in the park). My theory: because of the dry winter people are taking to many valley hikes that when they would otherwise be skiing if there was snow, or hiking…

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