For our first Yosemite backcountry trip we decided to do the Cloud's Rest and Half Dome thru-hike exiting through the Valley as a 2 day/1 night, camping near the summit of Cloud's Rest. Quite an ambitious first trip but completely worth the trek. We scrambled out of San Francisco at 03:30 Friday morning with an air of naive optimism, hoping to snag day-of Sunrise TH wilderness passes. When we gotby tsarles - Backpacking and Hiking Yosemite and the Sierra
Quotechick-on Thank you again for the set of photos. I personally signed a few of them for you. Of course you just made some more work for me. Although I suspect that perhaps there is a Benchmarker along that little gem you pointed out. w/r to the route... you didn't listen entirely... now you have to go back and follow... I presume you bypassed Upper and Lower Pinnacles. Not surprised...by tsarles - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
I might sound like a amateur posting this here but I wanted to get some experienced opinions. Me and a group of 4-6 first time backpackers want to plan a backpacking trip in Yosemite in late August/September. We are all in our 20's and are in great shape. We want to do a moderately difficult and rewarding trail involving the landmarks of Yosemite that is challenging but where we would still aby tsarles - Backpacking and Hiking Yosemite and the Sierra