23. Back Yosemite & towards Mammoth/CA

After we dropped Ingo off at the San Francisco airport, Theo and I headed back to Yosemite National Park. Theo, feeling restless after weeks of hibernation/ chillaxing 😂, was eager to get back into action.

We kicked things off with a climb up Cathedral Peak, in Yosemite National Park, standing tall at 3,308m (also nice for Trad climbing, lots of cracks).

Funny enough, during a 30 minutes phone call with Max, Theo’s brother, he spontaneously decided to visit us in the U.S. as we haven't received our visa extension from the government yet. Which means we have 3 weeks left until leaving the U.S. While talking to Max, he booked his flight to Nevada. He’ll be here in four days! That gives us 4 days time to roam on the way to Nevada.

The next day, we went mountain biking in Mammoth, visited the fascinating hexagonal basalt columns of Devil’s Postpile, and marveled at Rainbow Falls. The formation of Devil’s Postpile tells an epic tale of time and elements—rivers of ice carved the valley, lava cooled and cracked to create the columns, and flowing water shaped the land, nurturing life for thousands of years.

Finally Sarah and Dustin, our friends from June Lake came for dinner with us in Mammoth, where Theo enjoyed a second birthday celebration, complete with a delicious cake 🎂. Afterward, we camped near Owen's River Gorge, to spend a whole day climbing there, and cooled off with a refreshing river shower. And guess what, we saw Peter Croft (!!), he is a Canadian rock climber and mountaineer... He waived at me and I just backed a hi-5. Until somebody told me he was a famous guy I didn't know, how embarrassing 🙈. Probably we climbed some of the routes he set there and didn't know.

Then we headed to Inyo National forest....Read more