During summer peaks, on average Yosemite National Park gets more than half a million of visitors each year. During winter months, visitation to Yosemite is reduced to 118,000 of visitors.  Visiting Yosemite in winter presents an amazing opportunity to explore and experience the park in a whole new dimension.  Exploring Yosemite in winter is addicting!  …

One of my many favorite Yosemite’s winter hike is cross-country skiing or snowshoeing to Ostrander Ski Hut. Ostrander Ski Hut was built in 1941, and it is located in the middle of the Sierra Nevada mountains. The hut’s elevation is 8,550ft. and it is about 10 miles (16km) one-way from Yosemite Ski & Snowboard Area …

Did you know, that the Capitol Reef National Park is the least visited park among the five top National Parks in Utah? Capitol Reef National Parks visitation is less than 1 million compare to Zion’s Over 2 million visitors visiting the park each year. With no lodge in the park and limited hotel rooms in …

Over five million people see the one mile (1.6km) Grand Canyon each year.  Most of them see it from their car at overlooks along the South Rim (this includes Grand Canyon Village.  Hermits Rest, and Desert View).  A much smaller number of people see the canyon from the North, which lies approximately 10mi (16km) across the canyon from the South Rim.

A long exhausting day hike to the bottom of Grand Canyon and back to the top of South Rim was no picnic.   I started my hike at 5:00 a.m. in the morning on the South Kaibab Trail and after five hours of hiking,

Death Valley National Park is one of those parks I hesitated to visit for many years.  The name Death Valley hardly sounds inviting.  Dry hot climate, vast desert, isolated landscapes did not have any appeal to me.  I mostly imagined Death Valley to be an arid wasteland, devoid of water and life.  After visiting the …

After finishing my work in Glacier National Park in Montana in the summer of 2018, I drove back to California to hike Mt. Conness in Yosemite National Park. Mt. Conness elevation is at 12,590ft. and it is the third highest peak in Yosemite. It is a striking peak with long ridges and massive vertical relief. …

Glacier has 762 lakes covering about 43 square miles, and 561 streams, that if stretched end-to-end, would extend from Logan Pass to Houston, Texas. These majestic valley lakes, sublime cirque lakes, streams, and waterfalls are the legacy of ice age glaciation.

I am heading to Yellowstone National Park!  I finished my summer IT gig in Glacier and  I am heading to YNP to check out geysers, paint pots, glowing blue pools, and deep canyons with plunging waterfalls.