Half Dome from Glacier Point

23rd May 2012

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May 23rd 2012
Another 7am breakfast and off to drive to Curry Village car park. Curry Village is the tented area, where I think Amy & Graeme stayed and met the bear. Our plan was to walk from here to Mirror Lake. The lake was very low because of the drought in California this year. We were able to walk into the lake on sand bars which would normally have been underwater. It was very green and in a wonderf ... read more

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