Yesterday was fun. Good old Jared O'B dropped us off just past the Foresta Road and we took a stroll down Yosemite's history. The Big Oak Flat trail took us through the scorched remains of the fire of last August on the hillside, where flowers are now blooming. Then we connected the trail after the Tamarack Flat junction with the old Big Oak Flat Road (HWY120) from the valley rim to the valley floor at El Cap. Just think, in the old days you could spend your own money building a road into the park and charge a toll fee. Sometimes it works, and other times like the old Coulterville road ending in Foresta, it doesn't. Now both are forgotten about and simply part of Yosemite's history. An eight mile or so walk in the park, seeing only two other people the whole time. And its Yosemite in August- amazing, but can also be commonplace. Enjoy.
Yesterday was fun. Good old Jared O'B dropped us off just past the Foresta Road and we took a stroll down Yosemite's history. The Big Oak Flat trail took us through the scorched remains of the fire of last August on the hillside, where flowers are now blooming. Then we connected the trail after the Tamarack Flat junction with the old Big Oak Flat Road (HWY120) from the valley rim to the valley floor at El Cap. Just think, in the old days you could spend your own money building a road into the park and charge a toll fee. Sometimes it works, and other times like the old Coulterville road ending in Foresta, it doesn't. Now both are forgotten about and simply part of Yosemite's history. An eight mile or so walk in the park, seeing only two other people the whole time. And its Yosemite in August- amazing, but can also be commonplace. Enjoy.
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