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Chilnualna Falls, Day 1
Day 1: Wawona to the top of Chilnualna Falls, across the creek and retreating...
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Harlequin Lupine
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Chilnualna Creek
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Bear Clover, or Mountain Misery
This smelly, smelly plant is indeed misery for one's nose in the...
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Clouds over Wawona Dome
These clouds looked more and more ominous as the day wore on. They...
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Purple Milkweed or Heart-Shaped Milkweed
We saw quite a few butterflies on these plants.
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Clara, Bear Clover, Cedar, Pine
Here's Clara on the Chilnualna Falls Trail between the Bear Clover. An...
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Me with views
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California Indian Pink
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More Chilnualna Falls
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Clara and falling stream
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Pinedrops
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Chilnualna Creek about to tumble
Here the creek truly falls, though one can only hear it, for the...
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Falls, Creek, Clara
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Chilnualna Falls
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More Chilnualna Falls
Note the rainbow in the middle of the picture.
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Snow plant
One of my favorites, the snow plant lacks chlorophyll and thus...
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Clara Crossing Chilnualna Creek
Little did she know we'd cross back in little more than an hour. This is...
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Our Kitchen
We crossed the creek, ascended and then dropped down to another creek...
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Our Kitchen: another view
The clouds that we had seen hours earlier above Wawona Dome were just on the...
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Camp
We retreated, re-crossed the creek from the East and camped here, in...
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Sugar Pine, Day 2
Sugar Pines produce the world's longest pine cones. Yosemite is...
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Clara crossing the creek
The creek was cold, the melt of recent snow. We passed and crossed patches of...
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Marmot near Grouse Lake
We didn't make it much beyond here. Soon the clouds grew fierce,...
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Marmot
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North America
