This is Tunnel View entering into Yosemite National Park. This is in the opposite direction of the valley which are the most popular shots. While I have shots of Tunnel View too this side is also pretty. This is with the sun at my back at the Wawona Road Tunnel looking away from Yosemite Park. #YosemiteNationalPark #NPS #Tunnelview #cliffs #valley #WawonaRoad #MercedRiverValley #falaises #WawonaTunnel #Klippen #vallée #Senke #谷 #崖 #UNESCO #landscape #paysage #Landschaft #景色 #hiking #randonnée #Wandern #ハイキング

Clear view of the Half Dome across the Merced River Valley in Yosemite National Park

Taken late last winter when the conditions were juuuust right for a big snow dump and mist.

California poppies and lupines cover a hillside along the Merced River in the Sierra Nevadas, California.

A view down the Merced River Valley, many of the trees of this area were affected by wildfires two years ago.

Hillsides of poppies in the Merced River valley of California.

Yosemite: October 2009

A big part of Yosemite's lore is about Roosevelt and Muir and how they were total bad-asses and created this park. So there are pictures of them everywhere and Roosevelt is always in this awkward pose where he looks like his back hurts and one leg is shorter than the other. You get kinda punchy after being out for four or five days, so Paco was trying this pose out all over the place to make himself laugh. I indulged him by taking this photo. OK, it made me laugh too.

Compare to the real deal here.