Group photos.
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Sunday
After a Friday lecture and slideshow in the classroom by Mike "droning on," we gathered in the schoolyard, loaded up, and headed for the hills.
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We stopped for lunch in the city park in Groveland
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Acorn Whistles! As we learned a couple years ago, these are used by Miwok children.
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First view of The Valley.
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Monday
This was our first day in the field. We met our Naturalists, formed our Hiking Groups, and went off our five different ways. My group went through Spider Cave with Kim V.K.
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Note how shallow the Merced River is here. And this is just below where Tanaya Creek comes in.
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This is Milkweed, part of the life-cycle habitat of the Monarch butterfly.
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We made a Body Map of Yosemite Valley.
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Lunch was on a rock that has been used for preparing food for thousands of years.
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Journal time after Spider Cave. This is the dry creek bed of Yosemite Creek.
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Ah, but the sound of jackhammers removing the old Yosemite Creek bridge made for interesting "quite-time" journal writing.
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Stonemason with her tape measure (picture #0211Q-12)
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Flooding the shuttle bus with our students
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Tuesday
I missed this day because I had to go home to work on the election board again. This is the last year I work that post during a YI trip.Wednesday
Another sunny day in Yosemite. In the middle of the day, it was T-shirt weather but the storm clouds were gathering on the horizon. We took busses to the south rim and hiked; some to Taft Point and some to Sentinel Dome. We ended up at Glacier Point for grand views before the busses took us back to The Valley for supper.
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Sentinel Dome (picture #0211R-02)
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Group shot of our hiking group. We could see Vernal and Nevada Falls from here. (picture #021106-2554)
Life in the dining hall.
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Thursday
The rain came as forecast. As in previous years, we moved from the Valley to Wawona for the next two days. We went to the Mariposa Grove and then on to Camp Wawona.
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Things were wet on the drive out of the valley.
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But Yosemite Falls was still not running, just a moist cliff face.
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Thursday night included student skits.
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Friday
After a hike in the rain and some time with our journals in the meal hall, we thanked our naturalists, loaded up, and headed for home. It didn't just rain a little, it stormed! It made it a lot more fun; if you are going to get wet, you might as well have he fun of getting absolutely soaked. The South Fork of the Merced was raging by this time and we got to compare it to the main fork we crossed on stepping stones a few days earlier.
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Photographs by Steve Scoville
In January, 2003, Steve sent these images from his digital camera. He went with Danger Rave (oh, OK: Ranger Dave Dengler) and has a different set of experiences in these shots
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Danger Rave with a photo of Tis-sa-ack (Half Dome) Click here to view that photograph from the 2000 YI trip. (picture #DSC00997; photo by Steve Scoville)
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Indian Caves (picture #DSC01004; photo by Steve Scoville)
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LeConte Memorial (picture #DSC01019; photo by Steve Scoville)
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Dave teaches how to make fire with a fire drill (picture #DSC01038; photo by Steve Scoville)
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Glacier Point (picture #DSC01048; photo by Steve Scoville)
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Photographs of adult-child pairs and groups
This year, it was storming outside so I shot these in the meal hall. Thanks go to these adults who came to help make this trip possible; here are some shots of them with their kids.
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