My wife and I decided to hike Half Dome back in January, so we got permits for the back country, which you can read about in my post about back country permits. Because of how we were feeling and scheduling issues, we decided to stay in Yosemite Valley and explore other activities and smaller hikes …

Allyse has never been and it has been quite a while since I last went, so Allyse and I are planning on hiking Half Dome and the Mist Trail this summer during July. We will be starting from Happy Isles trailhead staying our first night on the trail in Illilouette. We will then spend a …

I didn’t completely understand how permits worked for some of these trips when we went to Silver Lake. I have a National Parks year pass, which also gets me into national forest and public lands, so I was able to get into the Unitas and Wasatch National Forests for free. When we got to the …