So with our one day off of work this week (Rojo with his job, and me with a brand new baby) we got out into the park and circled Tenaya Canyon. What this involves is the following: parking the bikes at the Mirror Lake trailhead, walking past Vernal and Nevada Falls, summiting Clouds Rest, walking to Tenaya Lake and having lunch, continuing to Olmstead Point, walking around Mt. Watkins and down the Snow Creek Trail to Mirror Lake finishing with the final paved mile down to the busstop where our bikes were locked up. 30 miles is a pretty good day hike. The bottom postcard shows some of the final steps leading to the summit of Clouds Rest with Half Dome and the valley beyond. The second snapshot is of Rojo contemplating the reason why we are moving forward with this plan- Tenaya Lake still looks far away and still further from our destination of the valley floor in the other direction. The third postcard is from the trail towards Mt. Watkins with Tenaya Canyon below us and the summit of Clouds Rest visible across the canyon walls, where we had been standing 3 hours earlier. By that point it was just one foot in front of the other, although we were traveling through new scenery for us which was picturesque. Now its time to come up with a new plan, and a new trail loop. Enjoy.
So with our one day off of work this week (Rojo with his job, and me with a brand new baby) we got out into the park and circled Tenaya Canyon. What this involves is the following: parking the bikes at the Mirror Lake trailhead, walking past Vernal and Nevada Falls, summiting Clouds Rest, walking to Tenaya Lake and having lunch, continuing to Olmstead Point, walking around Mt. Watkins and down the Snow Creek Trail to Mirror Lake finishing with the final paved mile down to the busstop where our bikes were locked up. 30 miles is a pretty good day hike. The bottom postcard shows some of the final steps leading to the summit of Clouds Rest with Half Dome and the valley beyond. The second snapshot is of Rojo contemplating the reason why we are moving forward with this plan- Tenaya Lake still looks far away and still further from our destination of the valley floor in the other direction. The third postcard is from the trail towards Mt. Watkins with Tenaya Canyon below us and the summit of Clouds Rest visible across the canyon walls, where we had been standing 3 hours earlier. By that point it was just one foot in front of the other, although we were traveling through new scenery for us which was picturesque. Now its time to come up with a new plan, and a new trail loop. Enjoy.
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