my yosemite trip
reached home yesterday evening with bag full of dirty clothes, oily face and aching muscles, but i had a fun 2 days at yosemite! =) it was kinda refreshing, 'cos i did so many new things.... had a vastly different weekend from all my other weekends... dun really know how to describe my whole trip though. =P maybe i'll just write in point form....
ten memorable things about the trip:
1) it rained when we got there, causing me to feel extremely uneasy about my bad luck week... but luckily clouds eventually cleared but sadly the view wasn't as good as it would hav been had there been good weather
2) embarked on a 4-mile, 3200 ft, 3.5- 4 hr long hike up to glacier point; it was kinda random... we stopped at the starting point and decided to give it a try and we ended up climbing higher and higher... in wind, sand and stars, antoine de saint-exupery said 'self discovery comes when man measures himself against an obstacle' and i guess for me i realized that i REALLY needed more regular exercise cos towards the end i was really dying while the others were still going strong. amazed. haha... but i hope i did burn some calories... and we managed to take some nice pics from different heights from the mountain
3) yingping mentioned at least 5 times that his car was the chioest around
4) saw chipmunks for the first time! little creatures scurrying around.. really cute
5) barbequed my own bread. cos edward and yingping were both scouts so edward had this idea to make our own bread so we brought dough along and twisted the dough around aluminium-foiled branches and had bread twists.. quite cool and fun =)
6) hitchhiked for the first time. to our horror (or more so my horror) we discovered that the shuttle bus that brings ppl down the mountain stopped at 3 something pm and we only reached the top at around 530pm.... and the idea of hiking all the way back down wasn't exactly that palatable. so the most logical thing to do was to flag down a car to hitch a ride down. and luckily we met this really nice couple who agreed to take us in their rental car... =)
7) feeling really dirty for 1.5 days. cos the toilet was REALLY stinky and we didnt get to brush teeth at the campsite which was quite ulu, deep in the 'forest'... and though i showered, we showered at this public shower which was pretty dirty... of course i can't complain.. this is camping =)
8) the starry sky at night. it was so beautiful... if only i wasn't so tired and if only our tent had a 'moonroof' then i could hav gazed at the stars all night.
9) brought along my econ tb to read but ended up only reading one pg
10) of course not forgetting all the nice ppl that made this trip possible and enjoyable.... and my sleeping bag "loaner" =)
here are some pics i took... hope this link works!