Well, April may be too early. There's no point in going if the high trails are still closed. That's some of the best stuff.

The prime Yosemite season is very, very short. Especially nowadays with snowmelt getting less and less with each passing year. You want the waterfalls to be glorious, but you don't want a bunch of the best trails and sights off-limits due to snow.

Frankly, it's all about May.


As in MAYbe we should put Yosemite off till next year, when so many people aren't taking a cruise that takes up half of May.


:confused:



(of course, next year more than a few of us will be aiming for Japan in April. You can't win.)

What about Space Camp? :D

One time, in band camp...

yeah right....ONE time

:p

I do agree with you, iSm, about the big trails being closed until May.

But, it also would depend on how long the camp trip would be. If it isn't too long, there is still plenty of hiking, walking, biking to be had.

The days are shorter, though, which on one hand is an excuse for shorter hikes. :D

But, we do go and while the Mist Trail is missed, there is so much else to do.

But, that is me. I prefer the shorter hikes, and, I like it cold so that I am not sweating.

The good thing about waiting, though, is also that more people can go who this year will be cruising.

That is a big :snap: .

Those temps!!!

When is MouseAdventure?

April 13th is MA.

Sadly I'll have to put myself in the "no" category and hope things work out. I'm taking a few days in May to go back to SF, and with our software push I won't be able to get coverage (and they'll want me to actually work at work. The nerve!)

Well, I don't care if the high trails are closed. I wold like Tuolumne to be open, but only because I never get up there any more. Yosemite Valley is a place I've been thousands of times and my brother lives just outside the gates, so it's easy for us to go up any time.

So, whatever works. There's always Kings Canyon.

And Mile Square Park

Mmm...I actually also prefer the high trails to be closed....then no one can guilt me for not going on them....:D

I love to walk. All over. Flat land. Slightly elevated trails. Good times. :snap:

Here's the deal, and it's mine personally. I won't go to Yosemite again with a newbie that I can't introduce to the Mist Trail and the Fissures/Sentinal Dome hike. These are the most beautiful expeditions in beautiful Yosemite, in my most humble but keen-eyed and Yosemite-experienced opinion.

My impetus for doing Camp Swank in Yosemite is to share the glorious Nature Temple with friends, but in large part to make sure that good friends who have never experienced its wonders get to do so at last.

I really have zero interest in a half-hearted stab at that. So if the stuff that, in my blah blah opinion, is not available ... i could not find it in my heart to go with newbies. Also, since the last time I was there myself was in early Spring when these fantastic elements were off-limits, I have no desire to have my next visit there be under the same too-limited conditions.


Again, that's just me.



But if anybody's up for Yosemite in early June, I'm all for that being this year's Camp Swank.


Otherwise, yeah, I also want to camp in King's Canyon. But won't that be too freaking freezing in April anyway?