YOSEMITE

[DRYVEM]

Here is a link to a video of our trip to Pleasanton, Sea Cliff, Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, Reno and Crater Lake. Thanks to Danny for the info on Yosemite. It really helped! We had a great time. Saw a bear!!! ( no pic of that!) Ate way too many ribs at the rib cookoff in Reno. We were gone 10 days and I was not ready to come home. Here is the link. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvzI3gkMWyk

Barbara

[ssrjim]

Here is a link to a video of our trip to Pleasanton, Sea Cliff, Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, Reno and Crater Lake. Thanks to Danny for the info on Yosemite. It really helped! We had a great time. Saw a bear!!! ( no pic of that!) Ate way too many ribs at the rib cookoff in Reno. We were gone 10 days and I was not ready to come home. Here is the link. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvzI3gkMWyk

Barbara

I liked the yellow truck to start the video

[BobR]

Barb...thanks for sharing your trip! Glad you had a nice time

[Eunice]

looks like a great trip. thanks for sharing
Eunice

[Dean in Eureka, CA]

Barbara,
Very nice video!!!
Joanie and I stopped off at Crater Lake on the way back from La Pine...
It was my first time ever being there, I was blown away by the deep blue color of the lake... Never seen a lake that blue.
We had dinner at the Lodge and it was wonderful.
I wanna go back and swim in that lake, just to say I've done it.
I see where you can take a boat ride out to Wizard's Island and get dropped off for about three hours or so... Wonder if it's OK to walk up to the top of the cinder cone on the island, or go down inside of it???
(Read that the inside of the cinder cone drops down 90')

[halfdome, Danny]

Great video , thanks for sharing. Danny

[hiker chick]

Barbara,
Very nice video!!!

I see where you can take a boat ride out to Wizard's Island and get dropped off for about three hours or so... Wonder if it's OK to walk up to the top of the cinder cone on the island, or go down inside of it???
(Read that the inside of the cinder cone drops down 90')

Great little hike -- Wizard Island is 900 feet high. Unfortunately my pics from my August '01 hike there are packed away. I recall that the crater was unremarkable.

A memorable part of the hike was waiting for the boat to pick us up and having a ground squirrel run up my back and lunge for the energy bar I was eating. After that futile attempt on his part, I had to wave a hiking pole to fend him off.

Crater Lake merits all the superlatives -- spectacular, magnificent, magical! And that boat trip to the island and back is fantastic. It's a 1,000-foot elevation drop to the boat dock so between that and Wizard Island you've got a good day's workout.

Stayed in the Lodge for a few days and was a big fan of the chef. He gave me his recipe for artichoke dip but he makes it 5 gallons at a time and I never got around to downscaling it.

[ssrjim]

Here is a link to a video of our trip to Pleasanton, Sea Cliff, Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, Reno and Crater Lake. Thanks to Danny for the info on Yosemite. It really helped! We had a great time. Saw a bear!!! ( no pic of that!) Ate way too many ribs at the rib cookoff in Reno. We were gone 10 days and I was not ready to come home. Here is the link. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvzI3gkMWyk

Barbara

Here are some photos from my trip:

http://gallery.mac.com/ramjim#100073&bgcolor=black

[halfdome, Danny]

Nice photos . A lot of woodturners would love this burl. Danny

[clkelley564]

Absolutely awesome!! Someday I'll get out that way!!

[ssrjim]

Thank you for the nice words. Yosemite is some of my favorite photos I've ever taken.