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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2017 18:14:59 GMT -8
Hi everyone! New to this forum and excited about connecting with fellow backpackers. I just moved to San Francisco, and I'm planning a backpacking trip to Yosemite for mid-April.
I was wondering what are your recommendations for this trip. Ideally, would like to traverse and sleep in different places in the wilderness, not a campground, each night.
So far I've seen that Hetch Hetchy and Rancheria are the most common options, but would like to know your thoughts. Many people do Happy Isles to Little Yosemite Valley but I think it might still be too crowded and we'd need to stay in the same campground the 3 nights.Thanks for your advice 
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Jan 16, 2017 2:34:38 GMT -8
On snow camping or below the snowpack. April is still full on snowpack winter most years for the vast majority of the park Check the video of the Tioga Road opening project. That starts April 15. www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/tioga.htmOut to Rancheria can be nice and a loop can be possible in some years. One issue that early is when Wapama Falls is in full flood the trail bridge across its foot can be (and has been) lethal. The last two bodies have never been retrieved. But that section of the park is a low elevation option. |
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Post by almostthere on Jan 24, 2017 9:50:13 GMT -8
What will happen is that everyone wants to go out that early but does not want snow travel. So they will hike to about where the trail disappears under miles of snow, and camp. This is how illegal campsites happen. Also how you end up in the same not-very-scenic square mile as two dozen other people -- the daily quota may be low, but people will be variably out of shape or in shape, and need a rest day - so stay another night before hiking out again. Or they need a day to dry out stuff over a campfire. Because they have cotton clothing and nothing that should be on a newbie's back, especially at that time of the year.
Best is to go to the coast - which currently there is a couple inches of snow on the ridges there, but nothing like a snowpack -- by April the coastal range is all green and flowers. We've gotten a little snowfall in the Big Sur region some years in April, but nothing terrible and impossible to walk in without snowshoes.
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