Day 19 - Friday 8/16/13 Yosemite, CA (100 miles)

Ancient, Giant Sequoia

Up early for Rick's infamous Spam Scrabble breakfast of Turkey Spam (from our stop at the Spam Museum), fried potatoes and onions.  Don't knock it until you you've tried it.  That plus French press coffee and we were ready to embark on our daily adventure.  Today, we explored the ancient (thousands of years old!) Giant Sequoias in the Tuolumne Grove.  These trees have survived so many threats over their lives; it's amazing that they've lived so long.

"Fallen Giant" Sequoia

After our 2 mile uphill trek with out-of-shape legs & lungs out of the grove, we took off in the Mini for the Tioga Pass, the highest place in the park at 9,945' elevation.  We saw more Mule Deer here as well as the glacial till and morays left by the, again ancient, 2,000' deep glacier that was once here and that carved out so much of what is seen in the park today.  Simply striking landscape!!!

Path to Tuolumne Grove of Sequoias

Augured out pass through

Tioga Road

Yosemite View

Glacial till atop smoothed rock

Glacial moray