Trip Highlights

Day 1 Meet at trailhead, backpack along Yosemite Creek...Day 2 Optional dayhike to Upper Yosemite Fall...Day 3 Retrace route back to trailhead

Accommodations: 2 nights camping

Yosemite Beginner Backpack:

Yosemite Falls from the High Country

Get a bird's-eye view of Yosemite National Park during our beginning backpacking trip that will take you to the brink of the fifth tallest waterfall in the world.

With Yosemite National Park as a splendid backdrop, you'll learn backpacking fundamentals on this beginner backpacking trip in the High Sierra. If you've thought about backpacking, but...Here's a basic backpack trip to get you started—the trip for beginning beginners!

Our route takes us along Yosemite Creek as it flows toward Yosemite Falls. The creek will provide swimming holes with pleasant campsites.

On our layover day, we'll day hike to Upper Yosemite Fall. This will be an incredible vista to show you how to use a topographical map. We'll also introduce you to compass navigation.

The very easy trail will give you the opportunity to learn the basics of backpacking while providing awe-inspiring vistas of the granite mountains and waterfalls that have made Yosemite famous.

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• Activity: Backpack
• Date: July 20-22, 2007
• Rating: Easy
• Cost: $425
• Deposit: $150

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• Note: Price subject to change until your deposit is made.

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