45 “Must-Do” Yosemite Hikes
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the amazing number of choice destinations in Yosemite National Park—Yosemite Valley, Glacier Point, Tuolumne Meadows, Hetch Hetchy, and many other famed locales. Now in full color, Top Trails Yosemite by Elizabeth Wenk and Jeffrey P. Schaffer helps you sort through the options. It doesn’t describe every possible hike in the Park, only the best. Whether you’re looking for a scenic stroll, a full-day adventure, or even a spectacular backpacking trip, you’ll find it here. And with at-a-glance information for each hike, visitors can determine which hikes are most suitable to their skills, schedules, and preferences. Books in the affordable and easy-to-use Top Trails series feature elevation profiles, detailed maps, driving directions, and “don’t get lost” trail milestones. Innovative trail-feature charts give information on which trails are child-friendly; which allow horses; where to see giant sequoias, waterfalls, lakes, wildflowers, and autumn colors; which trips have the best photo opportunities; and which have camping, running, or biking opportunities.
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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
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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.
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