Yosemite

On Friday Greg and I decided to drive to Yosemite for a one-day hiking adventure. We had an adventure all right. As we were driving out to the park, the weather was cloudy and rainy at times. We didn't think it would be a big deal, until we entered the park and it started to snow! We couldn't believe it. Greg was hysterical with excitement, I wasn't as much because we had no snow clothes and we were totally unprepared for this. We hung out for a little bit, drove up to the lodge and gift store area. We walked around there, I got a shot-glass souvenier, and then we went to the main lodge where they had road conditions posted. Our only way out of the park required chains on all vehicles. Luckily Yosemite has a "garage" for all your car-problems. We waited in line to buy chains (probably overpriced), and paid to have them put the chains on since neither of us had done it before. We had to take the CRX and wait in a car-line to get the chains put on. We waited for 1 hour, then we finally made it to the front, got the chains on, and headed home.

The shity thing was that as we were exiting the park, the roads were mostly covered in slushy/watery snow- not even real, hard-packed snow. So basically the park extorted us into buying chains. And we couldn't have said "no" becuase there was a ranger right near the lodges to check if you had chains, and he'd send you back if you didn't have them. Oh well, at least we have some for next time. On the way out of the park though we stopped a lot to take in the sights and take pictures. It was really beautiful seeing the park covered in snow.

View pictures at: http://www.fujicolor.com.au/Triana