Yosemite Waterfalls

Last Sunday, Cindy and I spent another day in the Yosemite National Park, but this time rather as a tourist than as a hiker. We visited three impressive waterfalls, the first one is the Yosemite Fall, on the picture below, you can see Cindy sitting in front of the lower part of the waterfall (320 feet height). The upper part of the fall is even higher (1430 feet), but cannot be visited so easily. What you fortunately cannot see on the picture is the high number of people at this place.


The Yosemite Fall can be visited without any need to walk for more than a few minutes. The next waterfall we visited was the Vernal waterfall (317 feet height), which is at the far end of the valley. It is very wet near such a big waterfall, so I needed to spend as little time as possible for taking the photograph.


One could go even to the far upper edge of the fall, but Cindy was so frightened when looking down that we had to move on quickly.


So, we further went on to the Nevada Fall, which is even more impressive (594 feet height). Getting to the top of it was a bit hard, because the path was very steep and the sun was burning down mercilessly.


But at the top we found some snow for cooling and going down was much easier. All in all it was a nice day, especially because this time the weather was as sunny as it is supposed to be in California...