America Trip 2013 Part Three - More Yosemite

A view from the valley floor. Half Dome is in the distance (and, oops! there's someone's arm... "no photo-shopping today")

The Merced River in Yosemite Valley-some of us cooled our feet, and other more adventurous people went swimming!

Yosemite Falls in the distance.

We visited the, uh, visitor center. If you're a visitor, it's good to visit the visitor center.
Seriously, the entire park has amazing views-I don't know many other places where you can simply look up from any spot (even the parking lots) and be surrounded by stunning vistas of mountains and trees in every direction.

America Trip 2013 Part Two - Sentinel Dome

As I said last time, these posts about the America trip aren't going to be in any special order. Today's pictures are from the short hike we took to Sentinel Dome near Glacier point in Yosemite. A group of about a dozen family members drove up the road out of Yosemite Valley. Sentinel Dome is known as an easy hike to a point with an amazing view. I agree with both parts of that description; the youngest family member in our group made it to the top, and the vista from the summit was fantastic!

Here's our group climbing, resting, and stepping off the path to let some horse riders pass by.

The group at the top, and the wonderful view we could see.

America Trip 2013 Part One

For about a month, I have been thinking about how to organize blog posts about our America trip in July. Too much thinking and not enough posting, so I'm just going to start posting pictures and some comments, and they might or might not be very organized...

First, here are some pictures that I took of the family reunion in Yosemite. If anyone wants larger/better resolution files (if you want to print any, for example) let me know, and I can email individual files to you (Most email companies put a cap on the total size of attachments you can receive at once, so it's often best to receive the picture files one by one.) I'm including multiple takes of the group shots so you can choose and avoid, "Hey! I'm not smiling in that one!"--refer to the pictures by the numbers in the captions. You can send me a message through this blog's comments, or send me an email directly:  waterfront_r@hotmail.com

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