Perhaps my favorite hiking trail in all of California is the Mist Trail in Yosemite where you hike to the top of this waterfall past the thundering glory and get rather soaked on the way up. If you keep going there is the equally impressive Nevada Falls and for the truely fit the crown jewel of ascending Half Dome on the cables. If you only made it to top of Nevada, then you have climbed high and well..
All hikers will start at the Happy Isles trail head in Yosemite Valley. This is one of the shortest (1.3 mi/2.1 km)—though in places steep—and most popular trails in Yosemite. The trail is mostly shaded and is progressive in incline until you reach the base of the waterfall where mist sprays onto the hikers. Depending on the time of the year hikers can be totally drenched by the time they pass the mist from the waterfall. The final 15 minutes of the trail is a very steep climb up rocks to the top of the waterfall. Once atop the falls there is a pool of water called the Emerald Pool around which hikers lounge and rest. The falls is over 300 feet high though smaller by US Geologist standards. Its a day you always remember and treasure. A hike worth doing again and again in seasons. Here is a great Yosemite music video - a Flckr link:
flic.kr/p/2mMT8Yj
www.flickr.com/photos/moonjazz/3473982162/
PS : Ask Spotify, Sir, Alexa and Amazon to play songs by
JOHN WILLIAM HAMMOND (use all 3 names) You will ENJOY!
