Another trip into Yosemite National\nPark filled our day today. Instead of planning another excursion on\nthe valley floor, we chose to drive from our RV park down into\nYosemite Valley but continued without lingering up the other side of\nthe Valley to an alleged town (really just an intersection) called\nChinquapin. At Chinquapin, we turned off onto the Glacier Point Road\nand continued for about 15 or 20 miles on a serpentine and regularly\nquite narrow road. At the end, we arrived at Glacier Point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tGlacier Point is on the south edge of\nthe Valley some 3500 feet above the floor. The views of Half Dome and\nthundering Nevada Falls are spectacular. Yosemite Valley can be seen\nthousands of feet below and a magnificent range of very high Sierra\npeaks can be seen thousands of feet above. It is a stunning place but\nthe air is pretty thin and I was gasping like a steam engine while\nwandering about. Peggy seems to be in much better shape because she\nwas outdistancing me and stopping while I wheezed along behind. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite the wheezing and the 2 hour drive each way, the reward of the glorious views is really worth it. There is nothing boring along the way and the passage through a bit of the Valley floor is magical. It is difficult to find an unappealing sight here; flowers, roaring and trickling waterfalls, tumbling river rapids and placid pools, forests of pine and redwood trees, dramatic ridges, cliffs and ravines, snow fields and grassy meadows line the roads all the way there. Fortunately, this place was declared a national park during Teddy Roosevelt’s administration and no greedy idiots have figured out a way to engage in logging and mining here since. We hope it stays that way and does not fall victim to the fate of the adjacent Hetch Hetchy Valley which was flooded so San Francisco can have crystal-clear drinking water. San Francisco just ain’t worth it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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