Last summer I had the opportunity to fly a flight over Yosemite with my friend, take Larry Jobe. What a sight! While an air craft is not my idea of safe transport, and certainly not a method of sightseeing, I think, of course, but it was nice to breath.
We started small Pine Mountain Lake Airport and Highway 120 towards Yosemite below. Parallel to the Tuolumne Canyon, we floated in the park and apparently were headed straight to Half Dome. Onas it seemed, seconds before kissing her face, we turned to us and gently slide the Yosemite valley in less than one-a-kind view of El Capitan, Yosemite Falls and Bridal Veil Falls.
Sentinel Dome, a hike that is the point just a little 'before Glacier Point looks like a wonderful place for walking on - offering 360 views of the Yosemite and Sierra Nevada summit ... and not so many people, either because they are not directly on the road.
Swooping down to the valley, we dragged Half Dome.Surprisingly, from this perspective, the massive rock is actually quite narrow, and a wedge rather than a dome. The cables do not crawl on his back, but at the north edge - not what I expected.
We followed the Merced River in Little Yosemite Valley from an excursion into another field. I knew only by visitors to experiment, but it offers wonderful. Hikers can reserve space in the country field back and all services from food and waterand sleeping cabins available to them so that their trip day more fun to wear without the need for a great weight on the food / sleep for a week. There are 6 of these cars that you take the fairly remote and beautiful parts of the park. From the sky, we could often see the fields and trails along the rivers.
We crossed Tioga Pass and Mono Lake could see a decent distance and part of Highway 120 in Lee Vining.
To complete our tour took us more thanbits of the southern desert Emigrant, at Hetch Hetchy, Lake Eleanor and Cherry Lake, all the support system of water reservoirs San Francisco. We then took a ride near Groveland and landed!
If you decide to take a plane Yosemite tour, you can expect that this vision at different times of the year. True even for a visit to ground level in Yosemite:
Spring: Raging water falls, a lot of bright new green growth, high altitude snow
Summer: ABrowning grass, some still covered with water, intense green of the pines
Fall: rare and scarce water falls, the color of golden wheat in the prairie, very little snow
Winter: a thin white wonderland, a bright blue sky, light some waterfalls.
There have been few controlled burns in progress, so that the air was not clear, but the memories are!
I must admit that I only asked once if Larry was not high enough to hit the ideawaiting for the mountain and only once pointed out that if he could just slow down a little, 'I wash my hands in the river just below us. But the most fun was when all of a sudden I found sitting in the middle of a great breeze. I had decided not to allocate all the wind and the plane had chosen this inopportune time peel apart and I was the only one who knew her. Larry could hear my train and it was explained calmly, burp on the turbulence of Mother Nature orsomething like that. I had to ask for the hand and show him that his plane had broken a hole somewhere and was leaking air. He turned off the air-conditioned quiet and all was well in my world.
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