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2003.04.06

***Back from Yosemite.
The trip was great, though it did not go quite as planned. When we arrived in Yosemite Valley on Friday, a cold late-season storm had closed the road to our trailhead at Badger Pass. We camped in the valley instead, and enjoyed about 6 inches of snowfall.

On Saturday the road to Badger Pass was opened to people heading to the backcountry – if they had 4-wheel-drive vehicles – so we made it to the trailhead and started skiing up the road to Glacier Point on about 15 inches of new powder. Things went pretty well until a point after the second turn-off to the Ostrander Hut, where we ran into deep, sticky powder that reduced our progress to a crawl. We finally gave up on our goal of making Glacier Point and instead found a scenic overlook of the Clark Range and set up camp.

We had a few snow flurries and fairly cold temperatures. Although I don’t have an official temperature for our location, Tuolumne Meadows (also in the park but at least 1000 feet higher) hit zero degrees!

Today was beautiful with warm temperatures and blue skies for the ski back to Badger Pass. I’ll try to post some pictures later.
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