Monday, August 4, 2014

Spring break for Mel - Yosemite, SF, and Santa Cruz

Soooo, here's a solid photo dump of our somewhat recent trip up to Yosemite, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz area. This was for Mel's spring break, so maybe not so recent - April sometime?

Yosemite views:

We made it to Yosemite in the early morning, and it had dropped to around 25 degrees the night before and snowed all over the valley even. Here's our first stop/hike to Bridalveil falls, covered in snow. This was an awesome first sight to see!


The hike up to Bridalveil was covered and snow was falling off the trees everywhere

Snow falling




Then we went to the far end of the valley to do a hike, and you can tell, the snow was melting quickly and hadn't hit as much in this area

couple of GoPro shots









Once through the wooded area of the trail, this took you out into an awesome valley area, with a pretty stream and tons of huge rock formations. 

The awesome part about the cold was the lack of people :)


Staring

hyped!

checking pictures, not taking it in






Not the best pic of the water, but it was incredibly clear and green




Then onwards to Yosemite falls, a pretty sweet two-tiered, huge waterall 








Mel, discovering things everywhere




Morning view from the campground. I think we were at lower pines camprgound 


Pretty awesome stream


Oh yea, it was cold again. I think it dipped down to 27 or 28 at night. Probably the coldest camping we've done, but super super fun :)

View out the back of the campground


Hike up the Mist Trail in the morning, which Mike and my dad had done the year before. Pretty awesome views all along this trail!

Looking for mountain goats, bobcats, mountain lions, bears, eagles, jackalopes, anything

Even while we camp, she looks great!



Back to the valley floor

This was all covered in snow the first morning



Driving out later that day, we got to see some awesome California flowers blooming all over hills



Made it to SF, stopped by here on the way up to our hike and camp for the night


We were heading to Mt. Tamalpais and it was raining at first, so we checked out Stinson Beach and it somehow wasn't raining here. Pretty cool views and skies


Went back up and hiked a trail from our campsite. I can't remember what it was called though, but it was awesome!
Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii






very green here


So, we meet again, Mr. Banana Slug


The next day, we headed to Santa Cruz to camp in Big Basin Redwoods Park


Close up on some wood



Good one at the campsite. This was a really cool park with awesome hiking. We had a blast here. The trees are incredible



ooooommmm

ahhhhhhhhhhhh

huuuuggghhhhhhh. There was stuff everywhere to play on :)

See! I guess we didn't take too many photos at the last park, but this was definitely one of the highlights!


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