re: #196 Single-handed sailor

That bums, me out. I used to camp in Yosemite from Christmas to New Year. You could drive in and pay $3 and find an empty campsite. You could camp for free, and if the gates weren’t manned you didn’t even have to pay the $3 a day fee for the days you were in the park. That was back in the 80s. Then winter camping got popular, so I moved to back country ski-packing.

Yosemite is still FAR better in winter than in summer. We’ll probably go by and see it in the winter this year. I won’t go near that place in the summer.

My first trip, there was snow on the valley floor and we saw a coyote and a bobcat while walking to the base of Yosemite Falls. I hate heights so I’ll never see the top. I did promise my husband I’d hike with him up to the base of Half Dome but I refuse to go up the cables.