Vernal Falls is the lower of two cascades along the Mist Trail in Yosemite. Most every year, one or more people ignore the warnings not to wade in the pool at the top and are swept over the edge to their deaths.
Vernal Falls
Category Archives: Expeditions
The Mist Trail
The Mist Trail is so named because of the micro-spray from Nevada Falls along the stone steps cut into the granite wall of the canyon is this section of Yosemite.
Desert Storm
Captured this from our moving car as we tooled up highway 395 toward a backpacking trip in Yosemite with our friend Bob Miller.
On the Mist Trail
This was taken during our first expedition backpacking in Yosemite in 2003. I was using an early generation digital camera that barely had 1 megapixel, but nonetheless, the stark high-contrast beauty of the monoliths surrounding the trail were perfectly rendered.
On the Climb to Donahue Pass
This is the view we encountered on our first expedition along the John Muir Trail up from Lyell Glacier to Donahue Pass at 11,000 feet. It was all a mystery that first time, and the clouds provided the best accent to the landscape of all our later visits.
Teresa on the John Muir Trail at Lyell Glacier
At the Timber Line
Taken along the John Muir Trail on the climb to Donahue Pass
Lyell Glacier
Kuna Crest
Another angle on Kuna Crest, Yosemite
Kuna Crest, Yosemite
Looking back at Lyell Canyon with Lyell Glacier behind us.