Simviation Forum - Waterfalls of Yosemite

Apr 21^st, 2010 at 8:51pm

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Some spring waterfalls in Yosemite.

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Reply #1 - Apr 22^nd, 2010 at 5:52pm

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Nice. When I was there, I think I camped at the top of the falls shown in the last 3 shots... same time of year, but there'd been a drought and it was not so full as it is in those shots. There's a switchback trail that crosses the falls in some places where the water is dropping so far it's just a sort of mist.

Really nice up there- no tent or anything, just laid out in my sleeping bag on the rocks. I awoke in the middle of the night thinking a ranger was shining a flashlight in my face... it was the moon, with a gazillion brilliant stars all around. Unforgettable.

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Reply #2 - Apr 22^nd, 2010 at 7:10pm

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I want to do that so bad, I love camping (considering I have to do it a lot with the Marines haha)

The last waterfall is Upper Yosemite Falls. If my wife wasn't expecting I would have taken her up there but she can only get so far, so maybe next year we can take the trail and see what's up there.

The waterfall in the first shot (Bridal Veil Falls) was really dumping water and you can take a trail almost to the bottom of it and get soaked by by the overspray. I wouldn't want to stand directly under though, it was making some extremely loud claps as surges of water hit the bottom, very powerful!

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Reply #3 - Apr 22^nd, 2010 at 8:07pm

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BigTruck wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2010 at 7:10pm:

I want to do that so bad, I love camping (considering I have to do it a lot with the Marines haha)

The last waterfall is Upper Yosemite Falls. If my wife wasn't expecting I would have taken her up there but she can only get so far, so maybe next year we can take the trail and see what's up there.

The waterfall in the first shot (Bridal Veil Falls) was really dumping water and you can take a trail almost to the bottom of it and get soaked by by the overspray. I wouldn't want to stand directly under though, it was making some extremely loud claps as surges of water hit the bottom, very powerful!

Camping up there is a bit minimal- it's mostly rock, with a few gnarled trees. But the views...! Shocked

I was up there in ...early May? and it was dry and warm enough to sleep "with the stars for a tent".

Its a pretty easy hike up the trail, also... I was glad I went up there for that one night- had it all to myself, and meanwhile the valley floor was so crowded with RVs, etc. that there was actually a smog alert.

I also camped in two spots in Kings Canyon on that trip- it's like camping in Middle Earth, with the enormous trees and almost no undergrowth... and ravens so big that they croaked like apes instead of cawing.

I went to a higher elevation (+7000 MSL) the second night there (Sequoia Nat'l Park?), and had to tramp through a couple feet of snow at the edge of the forest to get to the camping area.
Or maybe it was the other way around... Grin

Anyway, I'd recommend that whole area for camping!

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Reply #4 - Apr 22^nd, 2010 at 11:48pm

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I would have t o go alone, my wife refuses to even sleep in a tent, let alone under the stars miles from a toilette Grin

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