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| Upper and Lower Yosemite Falls. We climbed to the top of falls! |
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| Turns out, Onions hikes like a mountain goat. He is nice enough to slow down so I don't feel bad about being slow. |
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| And he is the kind of hiker that goes back to put stones in a water crossing to help the next hikers. |
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| Halfway up.....still sunny. Still have that wall of rock to climb. |
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| At the top......we walked up that! |
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| And then the clouds rolled in. |
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| Looking over the top of the Upper Yosemite Falls. |
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| Spring Break 2016! 4 Days in Yosemite. Alas, the sun only came come out to play for a few moments during our visit. Here's the view into the valley from the Tunnel View on each of the mornings we drove into the park. |
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| Sunday in the spring with no plans? It's why I love Onions. 9:20, I jump on him in bed, tell him, let's go hiking down near Santa Cruz. 9:38 we are in the car on our way! |
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| Big Basin Redwoods is home to some coastal Redwoods (the same ones as up north near Oregon) and California's first (as in oldest) state park. |
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| We hiked along the "Skyline to Sea" trail (which is a famous three day, two-night hike which I hopefully will get Onions to do someday). |
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| The hike through the trees..... |
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| Can't have mud on our shoes now.... |
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| The famed bananaslug, Onions' first! |
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| About four miles in, we turned the corner to see Berry Creek Falls. |
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| In and out in about three and a half hours. Beautiful day. Yosemite in a few weeks! |
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| Three day weekend! Friday night, Onions and I are discussing what we might want to do. Yosemite? Tahoe? Both have no place relatively inexpensive to stay last minute. Then I remembered that my friend David C. was down in LA on business. Gave him a call and we arranged to meet halfway for a weekend on the Central California Coast. We met just around sunset on Saturday afternoon. |
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| Sunset over Morro Bay...and Morro Rock. |
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| Sunrise and waves from the Cayucos Pier. |
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| The trip was centered around a tour of the Hearst Castle. Here Onions and I are in front of one of the guest cottages! |
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| The famed Neptune Pool. It's got a 3,000 a day gallon leak that they are trying to fix. |
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| Towers of the main house. |
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| The view from Hearst Castle |
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| Elephant Seals |
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| Highway 1 over Big Sur |
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| This is one of my favorite selfies....it's because I so often cut off Onions. I usually delete them, but this was too funny, I have to post it. |
