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After waking to an amazingly clear morning after a small series of storms, Mrs. H and I decided to rent some snowshoes from Sunsports and head to Yosemite Valley for the day. We had been cooped-up hosting and entertaining folks most of the holiday vacation and just had to get out of town. The trip to the park was detoured by a small rockfall near the HWY 140 entrance which shut down that road for 36 hours (SEE PHOTO AND ARTICLE HERE). Mrs. H had a premonition that the road would be treacherous with all the rain we’d experienced, so we actually went into the park via HWY 120 – a much longer and slower drive due to snow. We ended up hiking along the Ahwiyah Point trail on the opposite side of the Mirror Lake road but only got to the “lake” before we got distracted with photos and the desire to get to higher ground for some sunset shots. Here’s what we came away with!

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Washington Column.
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Washington Column.
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Pretty cedar bark.
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Funky swirls in Tenaya Creek.
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Mrs H is sooo cute.
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That's a BIG boulder.
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What a sight!
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Nice gradation of colors.
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