Hiking: January 2004 Archives

Here is my trail log from my Yosemite trip. I still haven't really cleaned this account up yet, so beware of faulty spelling and loose grammar.

Yosemite 2003

Wednesday:

I flew out of Minneapolis around 5:30, got to San Jose around 7:40. It was not a memorable flight. The food was incredibly skimpy with a postage stamp sized "submarine" sandwich. Then the lady sitting by the window had to pee twice. Each time she did, all three passengers in that row, including me, would get up and and go to the restroom in synchronized fashion. At the curbside check in the man who weighed my luggage noted that it weighed 48 pounds, which is far more than normal. I had packed one bag with my backpack and my camping paraphernalia while the other held normal stuff.

Somehow the index files for my trip to Yosemite were AWOL. I recreated them, and it's viewable again. I also need to clean up the diary of my trip for public consumption one of these days.

Tim's trip to Yosemite, down th John Muir Trail

On New Year's day I drove up to Lake Vermillion looking for some quiet time to unwind and take in some natural beauty. Check out what I saw.

Each day I walked across the frozen lake. Distances across bays, on foot, were much larger than I had expected, even though I have canoed, kayaked, and motored around for over a decade. It was very quiet.

I was really intrigued by how the islands seemed like isolated bonsai displays.