Did this as a day hike on 1 August. I'd been to the rock bowl twice before, my favorite place in the park, but this time I did the entire upper canyon. Coming up from the flats into the rock bowl gave me a view of it that I'd never seen before, a complete lunar landscape, an ocean of granite. I've also found it easier to scramble up the granite to the south of Tenaya Creek from the narrows wby marcos - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion