Backpacking trip in Yosemite

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Sep 1, 2006
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So I finished up a week long hiking trip through Yosemite. We backpacked the entire time averaging around 15 miles a day. We had a few that was less due to basically climbing straight up. It was a great time just walking in with my gear and a weeks worth of food in my pack. We had bears in our camp every night and wolves one morning. We started in the lower Valley around 2000ft elevation and maxed out around 9500ft. We finished by hiking into the Sequoia Grove on the far end of the Valley. That was the first area we actually saw any people. It was only around 50F during the late afternoon and would get down around 20F at night. It was definitely a worthwhile trip. Here are a few of my pics. I didn't take as many as I would have liked but it was difficult with all my gear on. 99% of the pics I did take were during a rest period.

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Very pretty area. I was in an area like that (probably that same national park) once when I was really little and I have a few memories of it. I would love to go back.
 
agreed, flop gets to do all the cool shit.

and wtf do you do when bears are in your camp other than crap your pants?

All the food you carry and anything scented is in a Bear Box Container so they can't open it. They would just kinda walk through and keep going. I was more concerned with the wolves but they just walked through as well. As long as you don't have anything open and don't have any trash they will leave you alone.

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Hey fuck you buddy. I really don't think it's too much to ask that a person photograph the wolves and bears in their camp. You can't scream and run and click a shutter button?