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| The trailhead is accessible by the Tioga Road toTouloumne meadows. The road is closed in winter and usually opens late May. While we were visiting some days it closed because we got snow overnight. We tackled this trail the first day we were in Yosemite. The elevation when you start is 8500. The second lake gets up to 9600 feet. |
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| The trail starts off among lots of rocks in a Pine forest. |
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| As we continued on we ran into some snow. |
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| There were pools of water from the snowmelt. |
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| Here you can see a cairn someone has built to indicate the trail. Usually stones stacked up are trail markers. |
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| The trail began to get challenging . We had to walk around puddles and still find the trail. |
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| When the snow became constant we had to look for previous footsteps. This is when we strayed from the actual trail. |
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We realized we lost the trail. We decided to stop and have lunch. |
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| This view from the trail shows fairview dome. Lots of snow still on the mountains. |
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| We took a vote to head back. I hadn't loaded the map on my GPS because we had no wifi. Later we realized we were way off track. |
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| So we never made it to Cathedral Lakes. It was a pretty hike to be so high in the mountains away from the crowds. |
It is a good hike for beginner hikers like myself and my friends. It is very scenic and you most likely will see wildlife. On the way to the lake, we saw a family of deer and at the lake we saw a beaver. Along the way, there are numerous Kodak moments of towering rock structures. It was a Glorious hike after the boston to washington dc tours. The trailhead does not scream at you here I am like others, so be watchful after Tenaya Lake. It is not crowded at all. It was an amazingly still lake with huge gray mountains nearby it on all sides. It was pleasant and serene over at Cathedral Lake.
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