Yosemite Day Trip

[ase]

What are some recommended activities for a late November day trip to Yosemite? The current plan is "show up; have fun; go home."

Please keep in mind that activities which don't happen this trip may reappear in December plans. I bought tire chains; if this is fun, or at least clears my head, I'll probably do it again.

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[cahn]

Ah, I missed this! Yes, that sounds like a lovely plan. High country is closed, so yes, go to Yosemite Valley, look around, hike, it's all good. Bring warm clothes.

D likes to cross-country ski at Glacier Point, but that is certainly something to be done AFTER exhausting the Valley.

If you go at the right time in February, you can also gawk at a human event: the Gathering of the Photographers for the annual Horsetail Falls pictures. We went once (alas, the sun and therefore the Falls pictures did not appear), and I have never seen so much expensive photographic equipment in one place.

[ase]

...the Gathering of the Photographers for the annual Horsetail Falls pictures.

That sounds entirely in line with the bustle in the meadows as people picked a spot suitable for snapping pictures of Half Dome at sunset. Hey, it looks like you don't even need to leave the valley to see Horsetail! Pit me down for a late February trip, weather permitting.