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California Road Trip 2016, Part 7

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Post published:2016-12-07
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Yosemite

We wrapped up our short visit to Sequoia National Park and moved on to our final location on our road trip early Thanksgiving day. We headed out of the high country of Sequoia and then north to Yosemite. Before we even got to the entrance we were seeing signs that it might be a bit busy so we quickly took advantage of vacancies at Wawona and set up camp. We arrived early enough to make the run to the valley and take an initial look around. Our good weather continued even though it was on the chilly side.

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California Road Trip 2016, Part 6

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Post published:2016-12-05
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Sequoia National Park

Although there was certainly more we could have checked out on our trip down the coast we finished our southbound run at a pace that would allow us to make our way back northbound with a couple stops in national parks on our way home. After a quick stop in Cambria we made our dash towards the Sierra and the foothills of Sequoia National Park. We made it in enough time to secure a campsite at Potwisha. Even though it was the middle of Thanksgiving week it was pretty busy and camp filled up later that night. We had enough time to get to the top of Morro Rock just in time for sunset.

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California Road Trip 2016, Part 2

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Post published:2016-12-01
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Lost Coast, Continued

Let’s see, where did we leave this off? Oh right, a morning walk on Mattole Beach. We headed back to camp and enjoyed a few more views. It appeared that the last of the morning fog was spilling out of the coast range and onto the beach.

We headed south. Mattole road south of Mattole beach gets to be a bit sketchy with steep twisty portions washed out by rains. Maybe a bit of log truck traffic would justify a bit of maintenance…. just saying.

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