Yosemite National Park

Good afternoon.
The next day, Wednesday, took us over to Yosemite National Park. It was about a 2 hour drive.
We had to skip the Glacier Point drive due to the road still being closed because of heavy snow. Disappointed, but we came mainly to see waterfalls.
And, with all the snow they've had, the waterfalls were spectacular!

These were the biggest, but there were many more.
Yosemite Valley was surrounded by these massive gigantic vertical cliffs!
It was a sight! It was another cool day, but no snow in the valley as it was only around 1000 ft above sea level. Sequoia National Park was around 5000.
On the way out of the park, we saw a lot of the devastation that was caused by the terrible wild fire season last year....

There were miles and miles of burned areas. But they say, it's actually good for forest rejuvenation.
From here we drove an hour to the Black Oak Casino Resort.  The nicest hotel we stayed at on this trip. Really nice! Didn't do good at the casino, but very good food.
Tomorrow, we head north to get around the Sierra  mountains to get to Mammoth Lakes on our way to Death Valley.. We had to go up to 88 as highways 4, 120, and 108 were all still closed due to heavy snow. We had to go almost to Carson City before we could get across. That ended up being a 6 1/2 hour drive.
More tomorrow!