An early morning start as we have various stops and want to make it to Bodie State park, a ghost town from the gold rush for 2.30pm.
Firstly, the road back in to Yosemite.
Pull out with another angle of Half Dome.
Our first stop. A trail down to dead giant tunnel tree.
Olstead Point, our final view of Half Dome. If you look hard enough, you can see people climbing the ladder that goes up the side.
Tuolome Meadows and Soda Springs. These are the boxes you leave any food or drinks in rather than leaving them in the car. A bear will pull the car window out to get the food.
Finally, the highest point of the pass. It will close for the winter, some times as early as mid October. They give a few days warning. *edit* – we did this pass on 9th, it closed 13th 2pm, and the Glacier Point Road!
Our first snow, and suddenly very windy having changed sides of the valley.
Bodie, so much of it left considering it has been abandoned for so long. Jim said they use to be allowed in the houses when he was a kid. So glad we visited this one rather than of of the several hundred others. So windy and dusty, more a wonder that the structures are still standing and that people even lived there! Now I understand why they call it wild west!
The school house.
Mono Lake, with its strange tufa towers, a lake that rivers flow into however water does not then flow out of it so the calcium builds up and forms tufa.
Home for tonight, Edelweiss. No, please stop singing it!
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