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Winter trip to Yosemite, March 2006

This was a quick two-day trip to Yosemite to have fun in the snow. We stayed outside the park in a hotel on the Merced, on Highway 140. The first day we went cross-country skiing, then went to Tunnel View to watch the sun set. It snowed hard all the first day. The second day we walked around on the valley floor, and walked up to Mirror Lake. We had a mixture of clear, bright sun and hard snow the second day.

People: Richard Golding, Craig Cruz, Cathy Parrish.

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Hillside along the upper end of the Merced canyon.
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Granite and snow, Merced canyon.
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Yosemite valley in the clouds.
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Craig in the snow, just before a snowball fight.
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Cathy skiing along the Glacier Point Road.
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Yosemite Valley from Tunnel View, late afternoon in a clearing snowstorm.
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Yosemite Valley from Tunnel View, late afternoon in a clearing snowstorm.
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El Capitan and Yosemite Valley from Tunnel View, late afternoon in a clearing snowstorm.
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Yosemite Valley, El Capitan, and Half Dome from Tunnel View, late afternoon in a clearing snowstorm. (Alternate 1)
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Yosemite Valley, El Capitan, and Half Dome from Tunnel View, late afternoon in a clearing snowstorm. (Alternate 2)
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Granite and clouds, Yosemite Valley, from Tunnel View.
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El Capitan and the Yosemite Valley, clearing afternoon snowstorm.
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Half Dome and Yosemite Valley, clearing afternoon snowstorm.
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Trees along near the trail to Bridalveil Falls, Yosemite Valley.
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Snowstorm rolling in, Yosemite Valley.
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Upper and Lower Yosemite Falls, from the main trail to Lower Falls.
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Lower Yosemite Falls in the clouds.
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Up the rock staircase to mystery. Lower Yosemite Falls.
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Lower Yosemite Falls from the Valley floor.
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Mirror Lake in the snow.
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Mirror Lake and trees in the snow.