YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CA - - Memorial Day Weekend, a time to enjoy the great outdoors. Thousands of folks created traffic jams getting into and around the park for three (fri., sat., sun.) days of on/off rain and 50's temperatures. Today, Memorial Day, looks a little brighter with low clouds and the threat of rain hanging in the air.
Two blogs down you'll see a pic from Glacier Point. Nobody is up there today or has been for the last three days. The road is closed due to snow. Half Dome has a snowy crown, but the low clouds don't let you really see it. Tioga Pass, the road to Nevada, opened Wednesday, and was closed by Friday morning. Plans to open a lot of the high country camp sites and services have been put off due to snow. Ah, the fun of working in Yosemite.
Our "tent among the boulders," isn't too bad. They have an evacuation-style plan instruction sheet on our door in clase of rock slide. The reality is if anything starts tumbling down the gigantic rock face right behind us the instructions won't help.
We've found out quickly that you really have to plan everything you do at least four or five steps ahead. Everything you need for the day or the trip or even a short walk/hike has to be packed, items put away in the bear box, and all unauthorized devices (extension cords) unplugged and put away. There's a system, a routine you need to get into to make life a bit easier.
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