3 DAYS & NIGHTS BACKPACKING YOSEMITE | glacier point to half dome with a first time backpacker

so do so we finally got to yosemite and i think it's 30. it's 6 30 and we're just starting to hike so we're starting at glacier point and we're going to illiout ridge i think we have to camp just past illinois creek i'm guessing we'll be there in like an hour so hopefully it's still light enough that we can find a good campsite wait you want to show them how smoky it is here the ranger was saying that there was forest fires on all three directions [Music] i don't know so it's our first night we set up camp obviously here's our tent the plan is to get up early tomorrow have breakfast pack up our and then we're hiking to little yosemite valley which is where we're gonna stay tomorrow night so we can do half dome the following day on tuesday this is what's causing all the wildfires yeah and i didn't think you'd actually be stormed on i thought it would storm all around us good morning so today is monday morning um honestly i feel like a freaking zombie because we were kept up so much last night by this crazy freaking thunderstorm i think it's just around like 8 30 8 45 now we're just kind of getting up getting ready for the day and we're gonna make some coffee the day has force like it shoots up a stream a water bottle is a trickle okay that's true i don't know is your camera rolling yeah [Music] hello so we're on the trail again i think it's like 10 45-ish we just packed up from illiwet creek area and we're walking to little yosemite valley so from that sign where gina is back there at 7.1 miles so we are walking still to little yosemite valley um it's really hot i think i don't know we've maybe done like two or three miles we did 1.35 miles oh me we've we've done less than one and a half miles i usually feel like i hit my like momentum like an hour or two in yeah yeah yeah and then hopefully it'll just get a little bit easier so we'll see if that happens we'll catch you guys later [Music] wow so pretty we are still making our way towards the base of the trail for half dome i believe we're like four and a half miles away feeling pretty good so far um there hasn't been too much incline just yet we're on the john muir trail now and we are like three and a half miles from little yosemite valley so we're more than halfway that actually wasn't so bad honestly there was only a little bit of uphill and that part was a struggle and the rest has been downhill um which actually worries me a little bit because coming back on the last day after having done half dome is gonna maybe kill us so yeah we have our garmin ready we have the sos button in case we need to get like helicoptered out of here or something i can't believe we're gonna climb that thing i know can you believe that like what the i literally don't understand how that's possible we just climbed that mofo and almost died we are at the top of vernal falls right now we just went swimming for a while uh actually it feels like it was a long time but it was so necessary we were freaking dying going up the stairs at the mist trail yeah honestly when we're climbing up the stairs okay so literally the mist trail is just like a giant staircase and like the stairs are tall they were like really high but it was still worth it it was still worth it just to swim in that like swimming hole with these packs um yeah we're turning turtles all right let's keep going shall we this is nevada falls and these brutal stairs that we have to climb to get to camp we're now one mile away from little yosemite valley we just stopped for a potty break and to catch our breath dude that trail is freaking brutal it's literally like massive stairs the entire way howdy it's tuesday morning now right it's tuesday right yes tuesday morning so it's day three we spent last night at the backpacker camp and we are just about to leave for the day so we're about to go do a half dome um we're leaving our camp set up here leaving our food in the bear box and coming back after half dome which should take like i think around three hours i don't know all of my estimates have been so far off i'm not even gonna try to guess but according to other people it takes like two and a half to three hours um but we might be struggling so we'll see and then the goal is tomorrow to go back to the car so that should be a really short trek seeing the car and like that shot that we get at the car that's gonna be the money shot yep yeah it's gonna be so nice to see the car oh yeah i can't we just sit down on a padded cushion a real padded thing and there's half dome there howdy so i think we're maybe a mile or so from the cables i have done maybe even less so you can actually see it where is it right there so we're gonna climb up there the heck which is crazy so the trail goes back up this way and around um honestly i'm feeling pretty alright actually it helped so much that we were able to camp at the backpackers camp in little yosemite valley because we seriously could just like start the halftime trail immediately whereas all these other folks kind of had to do like the really difficult part with the stairs from yesterday they had to do all that this morning before even getting to this point we made it to the top of half dome honestly going up the cables wasn't as bad as i expected like it wasn't as scary as it looks um but honestly it requires like a lot of upper body strength which like i kind of enjoyed because my legs were so dead but if you come for sure bring gloves or you will not have any skin on your hands by the time you're done that was our adventure for the day we're gonna go back to camp after this after we chill here for a bit so it should be pretty chill it's basically all downhill for the rest of the day so i'm prepping my knees [Music] mission accomplished [Music] it is tuesday night and we ended up spending so much time doing half dome today that we decided that we would just camp one more night at little yosemite valley in the backpackers campground honestly it's been kind of nice that we just had like a fairly chill day today like halftime wasn't as strenuous as we thought and then we got back to camp at like 3 30 and we've just been chilling since so we ate already and pretty much we're just like checking out the sunset and hanging out by this river you know enjoying nature that's all you can do out here but yeah so i will catch up with you guys in the morning probably how are you feeling oh are your legs sore yeah oh my god i'm really feeling it it's our last day here it's wednesday morning and we just made some coffee and are getting ready to pack up and leave so we're actually just checking our mileage and elevation gain from the past few days that kind of explains why we're so sore that's like close to 30 miles total so far and then we have another five or so today to get back to the car which knowing us is probably gonna end up being like seven or eight yeah i feel like we just like wander around like anywhere that looks cool we're like let's check it out yeah oh these the squirrels here are freaking crazy we're just watching a couple of them like chase each other around this tree oh my god they're so loud i i deadass thought that was a bird anyway we'll catch y'all later [Music] [Music] we just passed the 4.7 mile marker which isn't really a mile marker but we're at 4.7 miles i don't even know how much we have left but i think we're like getting kind of close i think we have i think we have like uh at least a mile and a half left a mile and a half yeah that's nothing yeah but it's mostly uphill oh that's so much we're still hiking up to glacier point we have about 1.3 miles left i definitely thought it was shorter when we were at the falls but now it was like to almost two and a half miles from there the views are insane so this is the panorama trail very aptly named you can see half dome and a bunch of the valley below this is literally the most beautiful sight i've ever seen so that puts the trip total to this point at about 39 miles holy moly look how nice the view is from here without the smoke so this is the same spot that we started on day one freaking crazy we were up there just yesterday wild never in my life have i been so excited to see a parking lot in my entire life but oh my god oh my god we did the parking lot oh baby let's go [Music] oh and one last thing sorry one thing we discovered is like you know like how in dragon ball z you go like super saiyan and they go like ah i feel like i feel like they got like what i feel like doing that gives me power and strength and i'm channeling my inner serena um because she's a she's a ghost she's a beast yeah [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 13min 54sec (834 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 08 2021