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Old 03-22-2011, 06:06 PM   #71
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^ Yeah, Yosemite is nicer than Tuolomene and is a lot more touristy; Yosemite is like Banff. Tuolomene is more like Kananaskis, there's a lot of cool stuff, but the views are more spaced apart and you usually have to hike to see anything. Tuolomene is usually more for hiking and climbing, versus Yosemite you drive right up to the viewpoint, get out of your car and take a awesome pic.

(Half Dome, the big mountain on the very right... I actually climbed that, thats the one that I got caught on with rain/hail/lightning with lightning hitting Half Dome 7 times while I was on it, holding onto metal chains and a backpack full of metal with granite semiconductor right below me. Thats probably the closest I came to a near death experience, and another reason I'm getting more and more hesitant of mountaineering and alpine climbing.)
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