Yosemite: Tuolomne Meadows

Sunday morning we checked out of the Bug and drove up to Tuolomne Meadows--much higher country than the Valley--where we had camped for a week in 1972 when I did the mountaineering school thing. Yosemite is not a place we have come back to again and again, like the Tetons and Winds, but it is very meaningful for us as the place where we did our first backpacking, our first climbing, and our first full imbibing of the wilderness culture. We fell in love with that culture and have sought it over the years in many different places.

A dihedral above Tenaya Lake; I am quite
sure I did this climb in 1972; click to enlarge
and see the person belaying (about a third
of the way down)

Tenaya Lake

Tuolomne Meadows

Lembert Dome, which Vicki climbed, while I was training
on Kitty Dome and Puppy Dome

We turned back short of Tioga Pass and then did a couple
miles' hike up from Tenaya Lake

Granite; everywhere

Looking back across Lake Tenaya to the High Sierra; and
possibly Mt. Dana, which I think I climbed in '72

It was October 2 and the end of the season, with
management burns ongoing across the Park

Ditto

Double ditto; all in all, it was quite a good experience visiting

this place, special to anyone who visits it, and especially so

to us; hopefully, we'll be back in the spring