Groveland and Yosemite 22nd September 2008 Groveland is an old gold mining town, twenty three miles east of the Yosemite National Park in the Stanislaus Forest. It is one of the old “Forty Niner’s towns” with most of the original buildings intact, including the saloon and hotels still used as such. We got here three nights ago and are staying another three, camping. It is absolutely freezing at night, not surprising at this altitude in the mountains, but we are cosy enough in our rented tent and the surrounding pinewoods are beautiful. The first two nights were noisy, the little town had its annual “49ers Festival” (some pretty good live music) so last night we slept like logs to make up for it! Yesterday was our first visit to Yosemite itself and, like most tourists, we
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