After all the orienteering excitement, we hung around the Truckee area for a few more days to recover and help collect a few checkpoints from the rogaine course. We didn't carry a phone or camera during the rogaine, so it was nice to have the chance to take some pictures at a leisurely pace.
John waded across the shallow river near our campground and climbed up the west side of the plateau to grab some of the further-out points we hadn't made it to:
Nice view of the Sierras (also note - still snow in the mountains at the beginning of August):
Glad we didn't come across this field of rocks in the dark:
Another bunch of interesting rock shapes:
Hey, it's the Western States Trail - although not part of the 100-mile race:
Looking down at Olympic Valley where the Western States race starts - maybe someday we'll get there...
Back on the road again! We took a wandering route through the foothills and stopped at an RV park to charge up the truck overnight. It happened to be right next to "Frogtown" where the jumping frog contest of Calaveras County is staged. Funny the things we find when we pause at random places around the country:
The park is all-in on the Mark Twain story, complete with a statue of the man (we happened upon Mark Twain references here and there all summer, in Nevada and California):
Onward to Yosemite! John got on a trail work crew there for the first time, a nice opportunity since we didn't have enough time in Montana this year for his normal trail work options. We stayed at Hodgdon Campground and did some runs and hikes on the trails nearby. It was a new area for us and a good chance to see things outside Yosemite Valley.
Carlon Falls, very pretty:
You know John could NOT resist this:
Admiring the giant sequoia trees:
Shortcut back to the campground:
I stayed on the trail and did my own staring up into the sequoias:
The next day I took the trail up to Tuolumne Grove and admired the trees some more:
Thank you beautiful trees!
The iconic Tunnel Tree, and thank goodness we don't do this anymore:
Hey! Look who just showed up!
Time for more adventures with Robyn, yay!
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