The Adventures of Sock Monkey Season 2 Episode 1: Hotel California...sort of...ish...not really... Day 4

   Here I am again with the latest post of The Adventures of Sock Monkey Season 2 Episode 1. Latest, that is, until next post. Never mind. Enough said, on with the super epic sock monkey-filled adventures!!

   We left our tent/cabin/tabin super early in the morning because we had to catch a shuttle to the Yosemite Lodge and catch a shuttle there to bring us to Glacier Point from which we were going to hike down from. As I mentioned in Day 3. The tickets were $25 each (and this park was made to stop over-commercializing...) and the drive took approximately 1.5 hrs to reach the top. But the view from the top was most definitely worth seeing. See below.

BASEAASF! (Best and Super Epic Awesome Amazing Sock-y Friends)

Where one goes...

...the other follows.

After taking pictures and getting pictures taken of, we started off down the trail. I'll include the trail map below.

Been there, done that!

The trail itself is around 8.5 miles long, give or take about 0.3 miles, and is mostly downhill with a bit of uphill stuff. Or, as the hiking guide says (*ahem*) "As its name implies, this trail offers some incredible panoramic views of Yosemite Valley. The trail crosses Illilouette Fall after 2 miles (3.2 km) and continues partially uphill along the Panorama Cliff. At the top of Nevada Fall, the trail joins the Mist and John Muir Trails to Happy Isles. In the summer, hikers may purchase a one-way bus ticket to Glacier Point ($) and hike down." Which we did. See below for pictures from the hike. 

I seeee youuu!

Nevada Falls

Vernal Falls

Shower time!

The bottom of Vernal Falls and the beginning of the Mist Trail.

The Merced River

We started hiking around 10 AM and got to the end of the trail at Happy Isles at around 5 PM, so the hike (on our time schedule) took about 7 hrs. Probably because we took a lot of breaks and had a picnic on the top of Nevada Falls. :) Anyway. After we finished hiking down from Glacier Point, we took the free shuttle back to Curry Village, where we were lodging, and ordered pizza for dinner. Because, yes, they had a pizza place there. It was very good. Expensive, but good. There was also an ice cream place in the restaurant they had there and the ice cream was also good. Expensive but good. After dinner and dessert, we headed to the lodge (aka the only place in Curry Village with decent WiFi, although if there are too many people on it, you can't sign in) and caught up on the technology things that we had missed the past few days (like blogging!). Well, that just about concludes Day 4, so questions, comments, answers, typo alerts, comment board is that way [insert arrow pointing towards comment board so check that out, please! I'm pretty much done now so thanks for reading!