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hotrod4x5

Parking lot near Sentinal dome...
December 18, 2011 07:04AM

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Just reading some stuff online and stumbled across the fact that there used to be a parking lot at the end of the (now) service road. Anyone remember parking there as a kid or young adult?

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bill-e-g

Re: Parking lot near Sentinal dome...
December 18, 2011 07:34AM

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You can more or less still park there... it's the quickest way in.

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NacciNW

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December 18, 2011 07:34AM

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Yep. It was a much shorter 'hike' in the old days.

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plawrence

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December 18, 2011 11:25AM

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hotrod4x5

Just reading some stuff online and stumbled across the fact that there used to be a parking lot at the end of the (now) service road. Anyone remember parking there as a kid or young adult?

If you're referring to the parking lot that used to exist at the foot of Sentinel Dome itself, yes, I remember when I was a wee little kid my father parking our station wagon there for a short scramble up the Dome.

I agree that hiking to Sentinel Dome from the junction of this service road with Glacier Point Road is definitely shorter and quicker (about half the time) than hiking in from the Taft Point/Sentinel Dome Trails roadside pullout, though there is a bit more of an elevation gain hiking in via this route.

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hotrod4x5

Re: Parking lot near Sentinal dome...
December 18, 2011 11:37AM

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hotrod4x5

Just reading some stuff online and stumbled across the fact that there used to be a parking lot at the end of the (now) service road. Anyone remember parking there as a kid or young adult?

If you're referring to the parking lot that used to exist at the foot of Sentinel Dome itself, yes, I remember when I was a wee little kid my father parking our station wagon there for a short scramble up the Dome.

I agree that hiking to Sentinel Dome from the junction of this service road with Glacier Point Road is definitely shorter and quicker (about half the time) than hiking in from the Taft Point/Sentinel Dome Trails roadside pullout, though there is a bit more of an elevation gain hiking in via this route.