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Backpacking in Yosemite
updated: Jul 27, 2011, 7:28 AM
By Brian Lovelace
I thought I'd share with you some photos I took on a backpacking trip to Yosemite this past weekend! My groups itinerary was to pack out of the White Wolf backpackers camp, go into the Grand Canyon of the Tuolomne River and loop back up through the Ten Lakes Basin. We backpacked around 30 miles before we started reaching some skeptical terrain. That's right; snow. As we ascended out of Glen Aulin High Sierra Camp on our third day, we reached a junction that headed off to Tenaya Lake; so far our trip had been an absolute blast, except for the mosquitoes, of course. As we hiked on past the junction to the next junction around a half mile away, snow started appearing more and more on the ground. We were only at 8700 feet though! How could this be? Well, after an incredibly long and late winter season, Yosemite is still providing fun, with twelve foot snow drifts, even at slightly lower elevations such as what we were at. After arriving to the second junction, trying to find the trail was difficult, so we decided that we'd turn around and head back down to Tenaya Lake. But we didn't let the snow stop us from having fun! We spent an hour at the snowed out junction taking pictures, sliding up and down snow drifts and even having a small snowball fight. All in late July! It was an absolutely incredible experience, and I hope that our little weekend story will inspire some of you to go out and do your own Yosemite/Sierra Nevada exploring this summer!
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