Monday, October 22, 2012

Beautiful Yosemite

We arrived at Yosemite yesterday just in time to enjoy some sunshine and rock climbing with our friends Mike and Jessica and their buddy, Jonathan! It has been great to be reunited with them and is certainly great timing to have some extra friends to enjoy time with, as the rain has set in today and seems to be sticking with us for the next few days.

We came into the area at a great time though; we are all staying at "Camp 4", which is known as the rock climbers camp ground and is almost always filled to the brim with climbers from all over the world. In order to get a site the normal habit is to sleep out in line all night in hopes of reserving a site as early as 5am, or whenever a Ranger decides to open up the booth. This is what Mike, Jessica, and Jonathan all had to do, and said that they were lucky to even get in! Which is why we were very lucky to arrive to a relatively cleared out camp as most people were leaving either because it was a Sunday or because of the impending rain. We got a site with no problem, and were even able to request one right next to our friends! Even though the place is much emptier than normal, it is still amazing to see--tents of every shape and size are sprinkled everywhere you look! It is like a camping shanty town of sorts! We keep joking that this must be the best way to do some tent shopping if anyone is in the market for a new tent. There are rock climbers from all over the world who stay here for weeks on end to enjoy the climbing season that Yosemite is so famous for. Mike and Jessica said that they even saw Alex Honald the other day (who, for those of us who aren't well educated in the rock climbing world, is a very famous Free Climber, which means who does enormous climbs with absolutely no gear or ropes or anything)!!

With the rain coming down harder and harder, rock climbing didn't look like it was possible for the day, so instead the five of us came to Curry Village (with what feels like everyone else from our campsite!) for the afternoon to enjoy some free wifi and hot coffee!

 
Come back sun!
 

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