Yosemite – Fresh Air Junkie

Spring Camping in Yosemite

May 18, 2010October 5, 2016Shandman Comment

Yosemite smashes into your soul and forces one to remember nature and the human requisite to be in it. Without sounding too neo-hippy, communion with things such as wildlife, undeveloped nature and electronics-free outdoors is gut-level imperative to one’s soul. [...]

Hiking Snow Creek Trail In Yosemite NP

April 23, 2010October 5, 2016Shandman Comment

Snow Creek trail is not as popular as some of Yosemite’s other trails. In spring, that was a good thing: we had the trail almost to ourselves. As mentioned above, this description of the Snow Creek Trail bear repeating: Hikers, myself included, would describe the trail as “strenuous” and “brutally difficult.” It is the steepest of the five trails from the Yosemite Valley floor. [...]