Elizabeth Wenk & Jeffrey Schaffer 
Top Trails: Yosemite [EPUB ebook] 
45 Must-Do Hikes for Everyone

Contents
Yosemite National Park Map
Yosemite National Park Trails Table
Using Top Trails

Organization of Top Trails

Choosing a Trail

Introduction to Yosemite National Park

Geography and Topography

Geology

Flora and Fauna

When to Go: Weather and Seasons

Trail Selection

Key Features and Facilities

Trail Safety

Fees, Camping, and Permits

Topographic Maps

On the Trail

Have a Plan

Carry the Essentials

Trail Etiquette

Chapter 1

Northeast Yosemite

1 Barney Lake and Peeler Lake

2 Green Creek Basin

3 Virginia Lakes Basin to Green Creek

4 Twenty Lakes Basin

5 Mount Dana

6 Gaylor Lakes and Great Sierra Mine

Chapter 2

Tuolumne Meadows

7 Lembert Dome, Dog Dome, and Dog Lake

8 Pothole Dome and the Tuolumne River

9 Young Lakes

10 Glen Aulin and Waterwheel Falls

11 Vogelsang High Sierra Camp Lakes

12 Elizabeth Lake

13 Lower Cathedral Lake

14 High Sierra Camps Loop, northwest part

15 High Sierra Camps Loop, southeast part

Chapter 3

Central Yosemite

16 Sunrise Lakes and Sunrise High Sierra Camp

17 Clouds Rest

18 May Lake and Mount Hoffmann

19 North Dome

20 Ten Lakes Basin

21 Lukens Lake

22 Harden Lake

Chapter 4

Northwest Yosemite

23 Kibbie Lake

24 Laurel Lake and Lake Vernon

25 Wapama Falls and Rancheria Falls Camp

26 Tuolumne Grove of Big Trees

27 El Capitan from Tamarack Flat

Chapter 5

Yosemite Valley

28 Bridalveil Fall

29 Lower Yosemite Fall

30 Upper Yosemite Fall and Eagle Peak

31 Mirror Lake

32 Vernal Fall Bridge

33 Vernal Fall–Nevada Fall Loop

34 Half Dome

35 Merced Lake

Chapter 6

Yosemite Valley’s South Rim

36 Dewey Point

37 Taft Point

38 Sentinel Dome

39 Glacier Point

40 Four Mile Trail

41 Glacier Point–Panorama Trail

Chapter 7

South Yosemite

42 Ostrander Lake

43 Buena Vista Loop

44 Mariposa Grove of Big Trees

45 Vandeberg–Lillian Lakes Loop

Top Rated Trails

Appendix I: Campgrounds and RV Parks

Appendix II: Hotels, Lodges, Motels, and Resorts

Appendix III: Useful Books and Maps

Index

Authors

Since childhood, Lizzy Wenk has hiked and climbed in the Sierra Nevada with her family. After she started college, she found excuses to spend every summer in the Sierra, with its beguiling landscape, abundant flowers, and near-perfect weather. During those summers, she worked as a research assistant for others and completed her own Ph.D. thesis research on the effects of rock type on alpine plant distribution and physiology. But much of the time, she hikes simply for leisure. Obsessively wanting to explore every bit of the Sierra, she has hiked thousands of on- and off-trail miles and climbed more than 500 peaks in the mountain range. She is especially fond of the steep, rugged peaks in the Whitney region, and she visits the area to hike and climb each year. Lizzy, husband Douglas, and daughters Eleanor and Sophia currently live in Sydney, Australia, but they continue to consider the Eastern Sierra home and return to the mountains each summer.

Jeffrey P. Schaffer has been hiking and climbing in Yosemite National Park since 1964. He’s logged thousands of miles on trail in the park and has completed some 70 different roped ascents, including several first ascents. In 1972 he began work on his first book for Wilderness Press, The Pacific Crest Trail.</i> Since then he has written and contributed to more than a dozen Wilderness Press guidebooks, including Yosemite National Park: A Complete Hiker’s Guide.</i> Today he teaches a variety of natural sciences courses at San Francisco Bay Area community colleges, does Sierran geomorphic research, leads climbs both outdoors and in climbing gyms, and lives with his wife in the Napa Valley.