Yosemite Photo Journal
A long weekend to ride! How about Yosemite? Let’s go!
![Map route](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/mapFri.jpg)
Great partly-cloudy day to ride up to Yosemite
![Curve in road](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09338r-768x1024.jpg)
First view of Half Dome
![Distant Yosemite valley](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09343-1024x768.jpg)
The road ahead
![Curvy road](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09347r-768x1024.jpg)
The road across the valley
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First waterfall
![Waterfall in distance](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09356-001-768x1024.jpg)
![Yosemite Valley](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09361-1024x768.jpg)
Another waterfall
![Waterfall above bridge](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09370r-768x1024.jpg)
And on the path back
![Path](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09375r-768x1024.jpg)
What should I see…?
![Painter in distance](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09384r-768x1024.jpg)
Pleine aire painter. Can I bring him home with me?
![Gentleman painting](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09385-1024x768.jpg)
Yet another waterfall
![Waterfall](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09389r-768x1024.jpg)
Uncompromising
![El Capitan](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09396r-768x1024.jpg)
Scales of time
![Tree, mountain, cloud](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09400r-768x1024.jpg)
Looking across the Merced River
![Merced River](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09408-1024x768.jpg)
No matter how big the rocks, the clouds are bigger. No matter how big the clouds, the sky has capacity.
![Mountains and clouds](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09411-1024x768.jpg)
Delicious scallop dinner in Mariposa
![Scallop dinner](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09412-1024x768.jpg)
Saturday
Back through Yosemite on Saturday to cross the pass.
![Map image](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/mapSat.jpg)
Time to get my feet wet
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By the way, there’s another waterfall
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09419r-768x1024.jpg)
Ready to leave the valley
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Nice place to stop for gas in the national park
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09429r-768x1024.jpg)
Heading over the pass
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Yup, just kick back and relax (as long as you’ve got lotsa layers!)
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Tormented tree
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09449r-768x1024.jpg)
Oooh, what’s that ahead?
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09460r-768x1024.jpg)
Lake Tenaya 8150’
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09468-1024x768.jpg)
And out to bad ol’ Bodie, a notorious mining town that’s now a ghost town. (elevation 8379’)
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09471-1024x768.jpg)
One church to 65 saloons
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09475r-768x1024.jpg)
The weather vane on this barn creaked back and forth in the wind… perfect
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09476-1024x768.jpg)
The town is now a state part maintained in a style called “arrested decay” where they put in glass and roofs and put back things that fall down now, but don’t try to restore it to it’s younger days. I wondered where I could sign up for that program.
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The hillside is pockmarked with gold and silver holes.
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09482r-768x1024.jpg)
It was active in 1915-20. Gas pumps
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09487r-768x1024.jpg)
Truck
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09488-1024x768.jpg)
With WWII, mining of “non-essential metals” was forbidden and the town closed down.
Even then, the Altar of Coffee
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09490r-768x1024.jpg)
Outhouse for three
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09494r-768x1024.jpg)
Outhouse for Saturday night
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09495r-768x1024.jpg)
Abandoned town, ghost child, forgotten toy
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09496-1024x768.jpg)
Fires were the major danger to the town itself. All that’s left here is the chimney wall and the bed frame
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/DSC09500r-768x1024.jpg)
A chunk o’ metal
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09502r-768x1024.jpg)
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My favorite find
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09505r-768x1024.jpg)
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09507r-768x1024.jpg)
The historian told us how difficult life was for the prostitutes. Bed springs and barbed wire says it all!
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09506-1024x768.jpg)
A very small building with a very important door
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09510r-768x1024.jpg)
Doorways to the past
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09512r-768x1024.jpg)
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Fun traveling with someone who knows about iron works. “This was worked in a smith.” Fine, then I’ll take a picture of it.
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09515r-768x1024.jpg)
Roof over the sheriff’s horse stall
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09517r-768x1024.jpg)
What’s that?
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09520r-768x1024.jpg)
The garage!
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09521r-768x1024.jpg)
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Of course…
![Heart shaped rock](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09523r-768x1024.jpg)
The moon continues to keep watch
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09524r-768x1024.jpg)
Fire truck
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09525-1024x768.jpg)
And nozzles
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09526-1024x768.jpg)
In this area that spent a good part of the winter under 6’ (feet) of snow, a sled
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09528r-768x1024.jpg)
Gears from the processing facility
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09532-1024x768.jpg)
Heading back out of the park… I rode the dirt easily! Yea for Rich Oliver’s Mystery School training!
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09533-1024x768.jpg)
Bridgeport Court House. Notice the nests under the window eaves.
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Fun little town
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Sunday
Time to head back over the mountains. Sonora Pass 9623’ – time to get over and down again!
![Sunday ride map](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/mapSun.jpg)
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09547-1024x768.jpg)
Stanislas River
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09551r-768x1024.jpg)
A full size tree bobbing lightly in the flow
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09557-1024x768.jpg)
At each stop…
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09556-1024x768.jpg)
From Sonora to Mariposa, highway 49 is just turn after twist after turn. A new milestone ~ I scraped a peg!
The whole route, 539 miles:
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/map2.jpg)
Monday
Back into town with work to do on Monday
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09559-1024x768.jpg)
Of course, not the WHOLE day!
Shaver Lake
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09560-1024x768.jpg)
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20130520_155523-scaled.jpg)
Espresso chip. With sprinkles.
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20130520_155506-scaled.jpg)
And more riding
Huntington Lake
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09570-1024x768.jpg)
Kewlio fence on the road back down
![](http://artofadventurebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC09578-1024x768.jpg)
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And back into town just in time to tuck the Tiger into its locker and catch a taxi to the airport… until next time…