After time with our buddies, we split off and Rob and I went to Yosemite for a few days - it was amazing. I had never been before and Rob had only driven through briefly, so we both had an amazing experience spending time together in such a glorious place.
The first day, we spent time at the giant sequoias and hiked around a bit - it was so cool!
There were a bunch of people around though, so we decided to do a fairly remote 7 mile hike back to our hotel. We started out around 4:30 in the afternoon and it was gorgeous - it was fairly shaded and super quiet. We were having an amazing time and then a few hours into the hike, we were coming around a blind switchback and then BOOM - ran into a bear. A huge bear. Right in front of me about 20 feet!! It was so scary since we were by ourselves, I had a backpack full of granola bars and we had just scared the bejesus out of a huge furry beast. It's funny in retrospect, I think the bear and I probably had the same huge eyed expression when we saw each other. Anyhoo - we backed up quickly, keeping our eyes down and quickly made a plan. We both picked up sticks, I checked my cell phone in case we needed help (yah, no go there, no service), I took the nice camera out of my backpack in case I needed to ditch the granola-bar bear-bait and then we started yelling and whistling. We tiptoed very slowly forward since he was sitting on the path the last we saw him, and luckily he had moved up the mountain a bit - watching us the whole time. He had moved about 50 feet away and I had the weirdest thought go through my head to take a pic of him in case it was the last shot on my camera and people never found us - hey there morbid girl, haha! So, here's a super blurry shot (because I was shaking like a freakin' leaf!) of our big furry buddy who I'm so grateful to for not eating us.
The whole hike back, we kept checking our 6, we thought every log was a bear, and we were so stressed out - but the funny thing was, we were singing loudly, and yelling the weirdest stuff as we walked around the switchbacks just in case there were other bears. We're such weirdos. Wouldn't you have loved to be a fly on the wall watching the shenanigans coming from the Warrenskis? But we're alive and that's all that matters.
The next day we hit a bunch of the different gorgeous sights, Glacier Point:
Bridalveil Falls:
Tunnel View of the Valley:
We hiked to the lower Yosemite Falls:
And then we took our mega hike of the day to the Wapama Falls at Hetch Hetchy Resevoir - so amazingly gorgeous and worth every blister it took to get there! It was super hot - the car showed 104 degrees, so needless to say, it felt amazing to be misted down...I could have stayed there forever!
Glorious - the power of these falls was incredible! Apparently the reservoir holds 117 BILLION gallons of water and is the source of water for San Francisco. It's so cool.
On the way there and back we saw more bears!! Luckily from our car this
time (WAY better than 20 feet in front of my face), and on the way home - we saw a mama with 2 babies!!! It was
tough to get them on camera since we were reluctant to get too close and
piss mama off, but at least here's a few shots of one of the little
ones - they were sooo tiny!! Cute overload!!
Baby!!! He's right behind that little tree on the left, I know it's hard to see him but you can picture him about the size of a really fluffy Galileo. He's so super tiny!
And here's the rest of our pics if you want to check them out, enjoy!
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Looks amazing, bears and all! :)
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