Day Four and Five: Yosemite

Me with the Yosemite National Park Sign

After a subway breakie I was ready to rock and we packed up the van and began our journey to Yosemite National Park.  A smaller journey today (sort of!) - about 315km.  We headed straight to Yosemite to do a walk to the giant Sequoia trees - respect...they are HUGE!  And then headed to our camp site and set up camp.

Trek routine is down pat now - one 'crew' of aprox 3 people put out breakfast/do wake up duty and clean the van, another group is on dishes, another on cooking and it all rotates.  We did our first group shop today where we went supermarket shopping for supplies which was...intense!  12 people require a lot of food to say the least!  I really like the way things run though, in terms of everybody knowing what to do when etc (good job Katelin!).

We had a little spare time before dinner (chicken pasta...yum yum!) and then it was time for dishes, a briefing of the next day and bed.

A Giant Sequoia Tree

The following morning I was on breakfast crew which all went well.  We headed off early to begin hiking to try and avoid the predicted rain.  Katelin gave us numerous options of what hiking trails we could look at doing which ranged in ability etc so equipped with maps we split into the appropriate groups and got to it!

Nevada Falls, Yosemite

I chose to do a 15km hike (8km of which was uphill...!) to the top of Nevada Falls.  It was a super amazing trail (in a "wow this is pretty but I am never walking up here again" kind of way!) that winded up to the very top of Nevada falls and then you had to climb over rocks and dodge waterfalls to get back down again (good entertainment value!).  We used our group food kitty money ($10 p/day pp) that we usually buy groceries with to have pizzas in the park before heading back to camp for further entertainment...supplied by Budweiser!  And then the rain set in...