3 days into the trip the first storm hit, it snowed just about a foot. While people routinely hiked up the HD/Clouds trail after that, nobody hiked down the Merced. The entire time I was there only 3 other groups stayed at LYV. 3 groups too many IMO, next time I'll go farther east. After the snow only one other group came up to LYV before I headed down, and only for 1 night. Most of the time it felt like I had the entire valley to myself, and the snowshoeing was great. On to the pics:








