High Sierra

We headed south and inland to avoid the suddenly arrived cold (it was snowing two days ago, although that was at 9,000 ft). We even hit a new inside van low of 8.4C (FYI high is 46.4C) overnight but it's still high 20s and sunny in the day. We stopped over in two beautiful county parks as we wound our way through the dry Californian hills. Lake Tahoe was pretty nice, surrounded by lovely resort towns, but we had to get through the closed road as soon as it opened so we could set up camp a little further south.

We hit the Yosemite NP at late lunch, but all the campsites were already full. Thankfully the road up to it was littered in scenic NF sites and we bagged a host spot, as we assume they have gone for the season already. We even drove back half way down the 4,000ft ascent to get phone signal but failed to get a camp spot in the main park (some campgrounds close on Monday) or permits to climb half dome - we'll have to hope we continue with our good luck on that front.Read more