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February 28, 2017 by Max Distro LLC

Mist Trail Yosemite

Vernal Falls. Mist Trail Yosemite

Vernal Falls. Mist Trail Yosemite

The Mist Trail is one of the most popular short hikes in Yosemite National Park, California, USA. The hike follows the Merced River, starting at Happy Isles in Yosemite Valley, past Vernal Fall and Emerald Pool, to Nevada Fall. Along the trail, the Merced River is a tumultuous mountain stream, lying in a U-shaped valley. Enormous boulders, some the size of a house, are dwarfed by the sheer faces of exfoliating granite, which rise 3000 feet (914 m) from the river. Through it all, the Merced River rushes down from its source in the High Sierra, and broadens on the floor of Yosemite Valley. This is Yosemite’s signature hike. While many of Yosemite’s trails are popular due to having a single spectacular destination, the Mist Trail has fabulous views scattered all along it, beginning at the bridge overlook, progressing to two unforgettable waterfalls that fall a combined total of more than 900 feet (270 meters), and ending with perhaps the most striking of all: the view of Nevada Fall, Liberty Cap, and the back of Half Dome from the Muir Trail return segment. We started early in the morning, with the Trail in early daylight.

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Filed Under: California Tagged With: California, California Gray Squirrel, Merced River, Mist Trail, Rapids, Scenery, Vernal Falls, Vernon Falls, Yosemite

May 17, 2016 by Max Distro LLC

Majestic Yosemite (Ahwahnee) Hotel

Majestic Yosemite (Ahwahnee) Hotel. Yosemite, California

Majestic Yosemite (Ahwahnee) Hotel. Yosemite, California

The Ahwahnee (Majestic Yosemite) Hotel is a grand hotel in Yosemite National Park, California, on the floor of Yosemite Valley, constructed from steel, stone, concrete, wood and glass, which opened in 1927. It is a premiere example of National Park Service rustic architecture, and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987. The Ahwahnee was renamed the Majestic Yosemite Hotel on March 1, 2016, due to a legal dispute between the US Government, which owns the property, and the outgoing concessionaire, Delaware North, which claims rights to the trademarked name. In the early 1900´s the first director of the National Park Service, Stephen Mather, decided that Yosemite needed a first class hotel. While Mather no doubt enjoyed the finer things in life, and was a part of the income and status group that would frequent first class hotels, his motives weren´t entirely aimed at building the kind of hotel he and his friends would enjoy. As head of the fledgling Park Service, and a master politician he understood that the wealthy and powerful held the keys to obtaining the priority and funding that his new department would need to further it´s goals of both protecting the parks and making them accessible to the public.

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Filed Under: California, Hotels and Lodges Tagged With: Ackerman and Pope, Ahwahne Hotel, Ahwahnee Hotel, Baskets, California, California Gray Squirrel, Cornus nuttallii, Gilbert Stanely Underwood, Hotel, Jeanette Dryer Spencer, Majestic Yosemite Hotel, Mountain Dogwood, Northern Sierra Miwok, Sciurus griseus, Stained Glass, Western Gray Squirrel, Yosemite, Yosemite Falls

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