Day Hiking Yosemite

Admittedly, the waterfalls in Yosemite are barely trickles right now. Yosemite Falls is bone day. Bridalveil is merely moist. Nevada and Vernal Falls are tiny. But there are other things to see in Yosemite, and we did. We hiked up to Sentinel Dome (is there a better bang for your buck than this one-mile hike?) and then on to Taft Point and the Fissures. The next day, we hiked Happy Isles and then took the Valley Loop trail to go around Mirror Lake, up to the bridge across Tenaya Canyon, up Snow Creek for a bit, and then back to the shuttle bus. And while the Valley was crowded, it was amazing how few people were actually out hiking these trails.