pip is our copilot
Remember Pip? Everyone's favorite battered marble-turned-one-legged-hippo? We dug him out of the ashtray of L's car to head our latest expedition.
House of Beef
120--our route to Yosemite--wound its way through several small towns. B, fiending for meat, snapped this shot.
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On our way to appreciate nature's beauty, we view the commercial side of national parks (presumably from Sierra National Forest: "land of many uses" according to its signs.)
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genuine mountains!
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result of 1990 forest fire
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Leslie, Bryan, big famous Yosemite rocks in the distance
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various shots entering Yosemite Valley
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Leslie had a thing for fall leaves. Bryan for big rocks.
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(big rock)
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big rock + fall leaves (something for everyone)
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Bryan gawks at big rock
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big rock Bryan was gawking at
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Leslie takes frantic shots out the car window, trying desperately to capture the fall magic whizzing by.
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On the march! L&B start their hike up to Vernal Falls.
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Expect many more pictures of yellow leaves.
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mossy rocks
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B gawking at more rocks
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Our long views were somewhat obscured by smoke from a local forest fire. So Bryan takes a dozen shots trying to capture the way the sunlight was streaming through the smoke at the top of various cliffs.
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like here
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Yes, the dual obsessions of yellow leaves and big smoky rocks dominate the next 60 or so pics...
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