Went to Yosemite this weekend and backpacked about 50 miles with a buddy of mine. Figured I'd post the cruddy phone-camera pictures I took here instead of spamming up the Post You thread.
Got our wilderness passes early Friday and decided to do some quick climbing before we headed out.
Drinking and climbing is a perfectly safe combination.
Got to the top of the climb and it had a pretty nice view.
So after a few hours of climbing we headed out. We grabbed a map at the wilderness station earlier when we got our permits and picked out our path right there. It ended up being almost twice as long as we expected. Here's a picture of our trail, with the black points being where we camped out each night.
The first mile or two were pretty chill, but then we got to some switchbacks that climbed for a good while. When we reached the top of them we had a pretty good view of Nevada Falls.
After that though it was a few more miles of shitty switchbacks and we got even higher up. We finally reached the top of those and had a relatively flat hike for a while. We found a path with some cool flowers and I had to let some of my inner faggot out.
We hiked for a few more miles and we were running pretty low on water. Our map showed that there were supposed to be some creeks along the way that we were going to fill up at, but they ended up being all dried up. We finally came across a small river and we set up camp there for the night. We set out at about 9 the next morning and had a pretty chill 10 mile hike to the Ottoway Lakes, where we had chili for lunch and relaxed for an hour or so.
Only brought one shirt for the whole trek so I had to get that thing off of me.
Feet were definitely hurting the most out of anything. I needed some better hiking shoes.
After lunch we reached another crappy set of switchbacks that took us to the top of the Red Peak Pass, which would be our highest point at about 11,700 ft. Yosemite Valley sits at 4,000 ft so we had climbed a shitton. Gave us a great view of the lake though.
After we got to the top it was nearly all downhill from there, so we thought we had it easy. But then we saw the stormclouds start to blow over us.
So we pretty much had to run down the entire mountain with hail and rain coming down on us. Wasn't much fun since I only brought a pair of shorts. At least I brought one good jacket.
We wanted to make it to the next intersection before dark, which was the Triple Peak Fork, so we were going at a really heavy pace for an hour or two. We ended up missing the signs for the intersection and went way farther than we intended, setting us up for a pretty easy third day. It was about 9pm and we were being eaten by mosquitoes so we threw up our tents as quick as possible and didn't want to get out to make dinner because the bugs were so bad. And all my clothes were soaked, so I just slept naked in my sleeping bag (bow chicka wow wow).
The next day we realized just how far we had made it when we ran into the lake right before the ranger station. We stopped by to refill our water and have a snack. It was pretty awesome.
After that my feet started to really kill me and I spent the last 13 miles crying like a little baby. There was also some dude that was hiking completely naked, though my phone had died so I couldn't get a picture (sorry Mimic).
Anyone else ever do any backpacking or visit Yosemite? It's a great place and I'm lucky to live about 3 hours from it.
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