So we went out of Tuluomne Meadows from the Wilderness permit station. Leaving on Sat. morning (6/7), we went up Rafferty Creek and camped the first night around Vogelsang. There was still a bit of snow up there on a few patches of the trail, but everything was pretty much wide open. Plenty of dry ground for camping and beautiful views with snow up on the sides of the peaks. Sunday we wenby pdwm - Backpacking and Hiking Yosemite and the Sierra
I'm planning a trip for this weekend and was hoping to go out of TMeadows. I saw pakoR's great report on Cathedral Lakes, but I'm wondering how fast the snow could be going given the sunny days and high temps the past weeks and on-going. Can anyone offer either reports of snow / trails in those areas (would it be plausible to do that loop without serious snow gear)? Or should I just plan to heby pdwm - Backpacking and Hiking Yosemite and the Sierra