Yosemite day two

We said goodbye to the chipmunks at Silver Lake campsite and headed towards Tuolumne Meadows to go trekking and find a new campsite for the night. I couldn't resist jumping out of the van to make some snowballs. We managed to get a site in the park this time. We parked our van under huge trees and were warned by the rangers to keep all our food in the fridge to prevent the bears foraging. The rubbish bins have bear proof locks on them and each site has a lockable food safe and a fire pit. Sadly the camp has no showers so we have now not washed for three days.

We did a hike up Lembert Dome - a huge rocky boulder jutting out of the earth.

That isn't us. The sun was so blinding that the photo I took of Tom didn't pan out. But this gives the general idea. Tom climbed to the top. I stayed at mid point. The views were fantastic. I found my heart pounding and the effort of climbing quite difficult. We were at up to 10,000 feet in parts of the park. Both of us had vague headaches due to the altitude while we were in Yosemite.

Above are photos of the park. After sightseeing we returned to our camp for dinner. It was too cold to sit outside to eat dinner. It was seven degrees! So we cleaned our teeth and were in bed by nine o'clock. No sign of bears. We slept fitfully because it was so cold. We were up and on our way by eight forty five. We spent an hour or so driving through the park to Yosemite Valley. As we dropped thousands of degrees in altitude our ears popped. We stopped to look at a major tourist attraction - El Capitan - another huge boulder jutting out of the ground. Somehow we missed the view from the front. It didn't matter though, Yosemite is more about the staggering whole than the individual sights.