I know not many will believe this, but Sally likes to get up early! Of course, we are in bed and asleep by 9 most nights, so getting up at 5 is nothing big, 8 hours of sleep and all. So today we got up at 4:45 and were on the road by 5:30 and hiking by 6:00. We hiked 5 miles to Forsyth Creek, dropped our packs and set up the tent, then continued the last 3 miles to the top of Clouds Rest, a tall bump on the ridge above Half Dome overlooking all of Yosemite Valley to the west and the Sierra Range to the east. We lunched on top, talked with people from Chicago, Austrailia and California, then returned to our camp for an afternoon nap, blogging, dinner, a game of scrabble and then bed.
It was the first totally clear blue sky day we have had since we got here. Cool air, bright sun, light breeze. A perfect day.
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