Four Mile Trail

At the Visitor Center the day before we were looking over a relief map of the entire park and noticed there was a trail leading down from Glacier Point. A girl standing nearby heard us point it out and mentioned that she’d done it that morning and that the views were great and it took about 3 hours. With that ringing endorsement Jess, her dad, Daniel and I decided to descend. We got to see Half Dome:Many different angles of Yosemite Falls:

Cathedral Spires: and many different views of the Valley. We were picked up at the end of the trail by the rest of our party, exhausted but exhilarated. The trail is 4.7 miles with an elevation drop of 3,200 feet all downhill. The views were really great because there's such a different take on things than you get from driving along the valley floor. It was nice to get out of the car and get on a trail without a ton of other people around.

That night Jess and I walked through some employee housing and over to the LeConte Memorial Lodge. The LeConte Memorial Lodge was built by the Sierra Club in 1903 in memory of Joseph LeConte, one of the founding members of the Sierra Club, who died in 1901.

We also checked out housekeeping camp which is more rustic lodging area. Half of the tents were closed due to flooding though.