We found out that good friends of Fred's that were in his Allen, TX church would
be in Yosemite the same time we were. So we caught up with them yesterday. We
got up at 5:30 am
to meet them for a hike. We took a bus from the floor of
Yosemite to the top, Glacier Point. We walked down to the bottom. It was
gorgeous! We walked to the top of one of the huge falls, the half dome and
overlook of the valley where we started. But....it was down and UP the entire
way. Including a walk down a rock slide. Including a walk paralleling the
falls where you were sprayed the entire time. One precarious section was
straight down on wet stones by a drop off into the falls. Water was flowing
very powerfully due to snow melt. They had only opened Park two days before due
to large amounts of snow. So park was packed since everyone was waiting for it
to open. Even on scary hike by falls there were families with kids and lots of
young adults. It is like the UN here with many different countries
represented. Amazing but very scary for this old couple. F's Achilles tendon
hurt him on some of the walk so we had to take it very slowly. We really
enjoyed Leta and Glen Andrew and the other couple with them. The walk took us 8
hours! It was 11 miles long. It was quite harrowing but so gorgeous and we really felt like we
accomplished something. Needless to say we are planning on doing nothing
today!
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