El Capitan

This huge granite monolith sticks out and up near the entrance to the valley. Here it is bathed in sunset light, in summer months it is crawling with rock climbers who travel from all over the world to spend up to six days scaling it.

A beautiful day....

March 23rd 2006
With tears gleaming in our eyes we packed our bags (why wouldn't everything fit! I swear our bags have shrunk!) and farewelled the Green Tortoise in San Francisco and its lovely bagels. We very strongly recommend it as a great place to meet people and doss down in San Francisco....always something going on and 3 free dinners a week can't be bad. However, our time had come, the road was calling, ... read more

North America » United States » California » Yosemite National Park

Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more

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