Yosemite
National Park Home Page
We are going to show you
some of the things that you don't see on other web sites for Yosemite.
You'll see the same old photos of Yosemite's beauty later, but now, here
are some interesting and usually unseen views of the park.
We went to Yosemite over the Labor
Day weekend in 1997. The park was crowded - but nothing like it gets
when all the campgrounds are open etc... The floods
demolished a couple of the largest campgrounds and that helped keep the
crowds down. We had a nice campsite but obnoxious neighbors.
The little kids were running around screaming at the top of their lungs
and then the parents were as noisy playing drinking games late into the
night.
This was our campsite, 159
in Upper Pines. On the left is the food locker. These provide
safe storage for your food. All your food. Nothing can be left
in your car or the bears will break in and get it. Their favorite
technique is to catch the top window frame part of the car door and pull
down until the metal frame of the door is bent down to below the window
level of the door and reach in for the ice chest or whatever they smell
or recognize as food. The food lockers work well when used properly.
There are two latches that must be used to secure the doors on the locker.
We had two bear attacks on food in the campground in the three nights we
were there. The bears only take advantage of what the humans let
them get away with. One locker raid by a bear was because the woman
who was supposed to lock the locker forgot to; before she went to bed.
She had brought two padlocks with her to secure the locker, which weren't
necessary, only a simple latching of the same type of device you'd find
on a backyard gate. The bear made off with Cheerios, boxed
wine and other goodies.
Here is a look at half of a food locker with
the door open You have room for an average ice chest and lots of
food. We even kept our table top propane grill in here to help keep
the bears away.
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