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50 Best Short Hikes: Yosemite National Park and Vicinity

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This guide contains 50 accessible, easy-to-follow day hikes for Yosemite National Park and Vicinity.
  • 27 March 2012
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50 Best Short Hikes: Yosemite National Park and Vicinity leads hikers of all skill levels to some of the most stunning landscapes Yosemite has to offer including: bubbling alpine creeks, smooth glaciated slabs, giant sequoias, deep dark blue lakes, and rock as far as the eye can see. In addition to in-depth hike descriptions, the author has also included information about the parks natural history, complex landscape, and its human history. Additional information includes tips on keeping yourself and your family safe, the park's natural predators, and helpful weather information.

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Price: $16.95
Pages: 240
Publisher: Wilderness Press
Imprint: Wilderness Press
Series: 50 Best Short Hikes
Publication Date: 27 March 2012
Trim Size: 8.50 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9780899976310
Format: Paperback
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"Beginner or experienced hikers alike will appreciate Wenk's tips on keeping hikers and their families safe, the park's natural predators, and helpful weather information." West Sacramento Press March 2012
Since childhood, Elizabeth “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 600 peaks in the mountain range. Many of her wanderings are now directed to gather data for several Wilderness Press titles and to introduce her two young daughters to the wonders of the mountains. For them as well, Yosemite is rapidly becoming a favorite location. Until recently a resident of Bishop, California, Wenk is currently living in Sydney, Australia, with her husband, Douglas, and daughters, Eleanor and Sophia. There she is working as a research fellow at Macquarie University and enjoying Australia’s exquisite eucalyptus forests, vegetated slot canyons, and wonderful birdlife—except during the Northern Hemisphere summer, which she continues to spend exploring the Sierra.

Overview Map

Acknowledgments

The Very Best Short Hikes

Introduction

Using This Book

Map Legend

    Hetch Hetchy Reservoir

  1. Lookout Point
  2. Poopenaut Valley
  3. Wapama Falls

    4. Yosemite Valley

  4. Base of El Capitan
  5. Bridalveil Falls
  6. Upper Yosemite Fall
  7. Lower Yosemite Fall
  8. Swinging Bridge and Superintendent’s Bridge
  9. Mirror Lake
  10. Base of Vernal Fall
  11. Mist Trail and Clark Point

    12. Glacier Point Road and Wawona

  12. McGurk Meadow
  13. Taft Point
  14. Sentinel Dome
  15. Glacier Point
  16. Four Mile Trail
  17. Panorama Trail
  18. Lower Chilnualna Falls
  19. Wawona Meadow
  20. Mariposa Grove

    21. Tioga Road and Tenaya Lake

  21. Merced Grove
  22. Crane Flat Lookout
  23. Tuolumne Grove
  24. Lukens Lake (from White Wolf )
  25. May Lake
  26. Mount Hoffmann
  27. Olmsted Point
  28. Tenaya Lake

    29. Tuolumne Meadows

  29. Pothole Dome
  30. Tuolumne River
  31. Lower Cathedral Lake
  32. Cathedral Peak Shoulder
  33. Elizabeth Lake
  34. Soda Springs and Tuolumne Meadows
  35. Dog Lake
  36. Lembert Dome
  37. Lyell Canyon

    38. Tioga Pass

  38. Mono Pass
  39. Gaylor Lakes and Great Sierra Mine
  40. Mount Dana
  41. Dana Plateau
  42. Bennettville
  43. Gardisky Lake
  44. Slate Creek Fork of Lee Vining Creek
  45. Twenty Lakes Basin
  46. Conness Lakes

    47. Mono Lake and Vicinity

  47. Lee Vining Visitor Center to Mono Lake
  48. Lee Vining Creek
  49. South Tufa
  50. Panum Crater

Hikes at a Glance

Index

About the Author