The campers had luck because someone who had used one of their campsites after the huge snow storm a few weeks earlier had shoveled a space for tents and paths to and from the picnic table:
Three photos by Aaron Genovia
The rangers told us that the trail to the top of upper Yosemite Falls was dangerously icy, so people only hiked as far as Columbia Rock. (And met others on the trail who said they “slipped all the way down” when they went beyond Columbia Rock.)
View just after sunset at the end of the hike to Columbia Rock:
The “Grand Brunch” we went to previous years was not offered, so we did our own the last morning (with apple pie, various granolas and yogurts, fresh pineapple/tangerines, bagels & cream cheese & smoked salmon, bacon, turkey summer sausage log & mustard, prawn cocktail with or without sauce, deviled eggs, green salad, eight flavors sliced cheeses, chocolate-covered strawberries, four flavors of cheesecake, assorted muffins, a 72 piece Whitman’s Sampler of dark and light chocolates that we started Saturday morning at 7 a.m. before the hike, various juices, coffee & tea):
Ooooops, never did get the pictures from the students of the snowshoe walk with a Ranger-naturalist.