Tuesday 21.7. (Yosemite)

First whole day in Yosemite. Early in the morning we start the trail to the Upper Yosemite Falls. It is about 12 kilometers only but pretty steep -- challenging trail. Even if the Yosemite Valley itself is overfull and busy, we do not meet many people on the way. After some 3 hours we finally climbed at the top and are pleasantly surprised by the beautiful mountain lake right above the longest waterfall in the Northern America, where we take a comfortable bath and wash off all the stinky sweat from the way in 38 C degrees. Way down is much faster but a man gets dusty either way, so that in the evening, a little swimming in the river is convenient. For the first time here, we see a coyote. In the evening, we are so exhausted that we take only a short round trip by the shuttle bus through the valley, and go to sleep with a lullaby sounds of rangers shooting to scare the bears out of the camp.