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Well, you can see Sequioa trees in Yosemite, as a matter of fact.
The question to determine an answer to in the next few days is if, this coming Friday, February 15, we want to assemble volunteers to man the phone and internet at 9am Pacific Time to try, along with thousands of others, to snag camping reservations in Yosemite Valley (Lower Pines being the prime choice) ... or at one of the other campgrounds outside the Valley (Wolf Creek and Crane Flat being the leading candidates).
Camping in the Valley would be glorious. As I've said before in this thread (and elsewhere), newbies to Yosemite should LIVE in the Valley as their introduction, if at all possible.
HOWEVER, I believe only two Valley campsites can be reserved by any one person. Last year's camping trip required 5. That means it would take two of us the off-chance of both getting reservations, in the same campground, to get 4 sites. Chances of that are slim. The sites would likely not be near each other, much less adjacent. And there would be room for less people than last year.
These are daunting facts, and we may just want to go with the out-of-the-Valley sites where the limitations are far less stringent.
Of those, I'd vote for Wolf Creek. It's about a 20 minute drive to the Valley from there. Closer to Tuolmne Meadows (another beautiful area) than Valley campsites. (It's also closer to a hidden grove of Sequioas, far less touristy than the one near the road at the Park entrance).
Crane Flat is about a 40-minute drive to the Valley, but it's much closer to Glacier Point (a wonderful spot) and to the Taft-Point/Sentinal Dome hike, one of the Park's best adventures.
Oh, the time frame we are looking at now is mid-to late June 2008. On February 15, reservations will open for June 15 thru July 14. Last year's camping trip was the last weekend of June, first of July.
Whether we want to try for Valley sites or not, we need volunteers to launch a coordinated effort at snagging campsite reservations this coming Friday morning, Feb. 15.
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