When you go into yosemite from the northern route, the road goes to about 6,000 feet before hugging the mountain and dropping to the valley far below. This is beautiful anytime, but it's simply incredible when you do it at night and the moon is rising over Half Dome.
Our hike on Monday started on the valley floor, and went up the Merced river to Vernal falls. There's a granite staircase that runs a long ways on the canyon wall as you climb past the falls. The trail is called Mist Trail, for during the spring you can get soaked by the spray from the huge waterfall. But now it's a relative trickle (and yosemite falls is totally dry, which is very sad).
We went about half way up to Nevada falls, but the failing light and frigid temperatures forced us to turn around.
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