Travel Report
California (Hiking in Yosemite National Park, Round Trip by Car)
June 7-29, 2009
This is the travel report (or at least a selection of 360 photos, including 65
panoramic ones) for our California round trip in June 2009.
We stayed in the great(er) San Francisco area for a few days, and then headed
for Yosemite National Park for two multi-day hikes. Finally, we returned to
San Francisco in a big loop along Mono Lake and through Death Valley to Los
Angeles, and then north on Coastal Highway 1 through Santa Barbara, Monterey,
and Half Moon Bay.
Maps
Our round trip in California
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Our trips in Yosemite National Park
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Maps created at gpsvisualizer.com
with background map data from NASA
(left: ``Blue Marble'', right: Landsat 30m).
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Daily Reports
Use the following links to go to the pictures of the respective day. Places
written in bold face indicate our two multi-day hiking segments. The
other places we have visited by car or on a small day hike.
- June 7, 2009:
Kiel - Hamburg - Amsterdam - San Francisco - Menlo Park
- June 8, 2009:
Menlo Park - Stanford University - Half Moon Bay
- June 9, 2009:
Menlo Park - San Francisco (SF MoMA)
- June 10, 2009:
San Francisco (Golden Gate Bridge, Japanese Tea Garden, UC Berkeley)
- June 11, 2009:
San Francisco - Yosemite National Park (Yosemite Valley)
- June 12, 2009:
Yosemite National Park (Yosemite Valley - Tuolumne Meadows - Glen
Aulin)
- June 13, 2009:
Yosemite National Park (Glen Aulin - May Lake)
- June 14, 2009:
Yosemite National Park (May Lake - Tenaya Lake - Sunrise Lakes)
- June 15, 2009:
Yosemite National Park (Sunrise Lakes - Upper Cathedral Lake)
- June 16, 2009:
Yosemite National Park (Upper Cathedral Lake - Tuolumne Meadows -
Yosemite Valley)
- June 17, 2009:
Yosemite National Park (Yosemite Valley - Happy Isles - Little
Yosemite Valley - Moraine Dome/Merced River)
- June 18, 2009:
Yosemite National Park (Moraine Dome/Merced River - Merced Lake)
- June 19, 2009:
Yosemite National Park (Merced Lake - Moraine Dome/Sunrise Creek)
- June 20, 2009:
Yosemite National Park (Moraine Dome/Sunrise Creek - Little Yosemite
Valley - Happy Isles - Yosemite Valley - Tuolumne Meadows - Olmsted
Point) - Lee Vining - June Lake
- June 21, 2009:
June Lake - Mono Lake - Lone Pine
- June 22, 2009:
Lone Pine - Death Valley National Park (Zabriskie Point - Dante's View -
Badwater - Golden Canyon - Panamint Springs)
- June 23, 2009:
Death Valley National Park - Los Angeles (Santa Monica, Mulholland
Drive) - Ventura
- June 24, 2009:
Ventura - San Simeon
- June 25, 2009:
San Simeon - Monterey (Monterey Bay Aquarium)
- June 26, 2009:
Monterey - Half Moon Bay
- June 27, 2009:
Half Moon Bay - San Francisco
- June 28, 2009:
San Francisco - ...
- June 29, 2009:
... - Amsterdam - Hamburg - Kiel (no pictures)
Panoramic Images
This page shows all 65 panoramic images taken on
our round trip, in chronological order.
Hints
If you click on a small thumbnail picture, another browser window opens and
shows the same picture in a bigger size. You can keep that window opened, as
other pictures will also be shown there. You can also use the forward/back
links in that window to look at all pictures. Don't forget to scroll right on
panoramic images!
Most picture captions provide coordinates and the elevation of the place the
picture was taken at. Clicking the coordinates opens a map at maps.google.com, in which the picture
location should be indicated. Note that there is a varying measuring error in
the coordinates and the elevation, depending on the local quality of GPS
satellite reception.
The pictures with a number starting with the digit 2 have been taken with a
Canon PowerShot S500; all other pictures with a Canon EOS 400D.
Among my other travel reports there are two more covering
California: USA 2000 and USA 2001.
Comments, corrections, etc. are always welcome.
Ben Lukoschus
(ben@lukoschus.de)
Last modified: 2009-11-01 17:58:42 CET (+0100)