Yosemite

After a close encounter with a cougar we decided a hostel for a few days was appropriate, so we headed for Yosemite national park near the Nevada border.  An hours drive into the park revealed the most wonderful landscapes.

There is no way I can describe the sheer mass of rock going straight up for about 7000 feet and with people climbing the vertical face! Apparently, it takes a climber between 4 to 8 days to reach the summit! That means they have to carry enough food & water, they must sleep up there and do their poo poos in a bag because they are not allowed to drop anything and this is on a vertical granite face of over 7000 feet!  With binoculars, one could sit in a deck chair and watch their progress for a week! (see attached photo) Very humbling.

Tomorrow we head for Sacramento and the freeway north up to Oregon and Crater Lake, maybe take 2 days to leave California but its not a race.