Yosemite - Nevada Fall

After a good relaxing break in company of some of the wildlife (but still no bear), we got on our feet and started the other half of the trail. Objective: top of Nevada Fall.

Beginning of the trail was not very clear. To be honest several times we wondered why there was no mark to guide us. There are signs every now and then but trust me never when there is some ambiguity. Why not putting the famous red and white mark like in Europe? Just a thought of course. Maybe they expect you will get lost and help feeding the bears (which by the way we still haven't seen).

Same story as with the first half of the trail, after a given point you start to see the fall and each step reveals a bit more. It's really crazy how much my body was ok to endure so I could see these great landscape. Still, something tells me tomorrow I will have a hard time to walk.

Getting closer and closer from the Liberty Cap granite dome and the top of the fall.

And after one final effort (i.e. even steeper trail), we reached the top of the fall and were speechless, once again.

Look at this view on the Yosemite Valley! and look how high we are :) yes we are proud to have climbed 600m or so (what only 600m; it felt way more!) from the bottom of the valley until the top of the Nevada fall.

To go down we chose to take the John Muir trail. It's a bit longer than the Mist trail but offers a different way thus different views.

John Muir was the one who managed to convince President Roosevelt to protect Yosemite (including Yosemite Valley), Sequoia, Grand Canyon and Mt. Rainier as National Parks. Obviously he is not someone you can ignore when you visit Yosemite National Park.

In 2 hours or so we were back at the car. Going down goes really faster but is also very hard on the body as you struggle to keep your balance and pace.
Now we can sit and rest :)