Visiting Yosemite National Park in winter is an amazing experience, and so much different than a summer visit. Even though it is incredible and so much fun, visiting this park in the winter months can seem like an intimidating feat to some, and I totally…
Yosemite National Park. The land of awe-inspiring, towering cliffs, roaring waterfalls, peaceful meadows, and more. It’s pretty hard to find a bad view in the park, to be honest! Yosemite has over 750 miles of maintained trail, with most of those deep in the wilderness….
Everyone has heard of Half Dome in Yosemite. It’s amazing and beautiful and the star of the show in Yosemite Valley. But there’s another dome, one that is a full dome, hanging out adjacent to Half Dome: North Dome. This rock feature looks unreachable from…
Yosemite’s high country is a backpacker’s dream—alpine meadows bursting with wildflowers, glassy mountain lakes reflecting the sky, and rugged granite ridgelines that stretch for miles. With so many backcountry lakes to explore, we had no idea where we’d end up when we first set foot on the trail….
Over the last few months, I’ve seen so many people ask some iteration of this request in Facebook outdoor groups: “I’m going to Yosemite for x days and need day hiking/ backpacking/ lodging advice!” I have a lot of thoughts and feelings and advice for…
