Tuolumne Meadows

Eight days.  Seven nights.  Never have I taken a shower that seemed more needed or accomplished more cleaning, except perhaps after my Tough Mudder.

I headed up to Tuolumne Meadows for work.  I left in July and came home in August.  It was cold, wet, rainy, sunny, warm, miserable, enjoyable... a whole range of emotions.

 

First day was setting up camp and hiking to our different locations to see where our trail counters were located and where the wilderness encounter trail section was.  Here's my co-worker Molly enjoying the view.

The next seven days I calibrated trail counters, downloaded trail counters, and conducted wilderness encounters data collection.  It was long days averaging 15 miles a day, but it was great.  Along the trail to Glen Aulin High Sierra Camp along the Tuolumne River.

It was cold and overcast most of the time, hence the sweatshirt.

This is truly a beautiful park!  I'll be spending more time up in the Tuolumne area the next little bit and I'm excited to see more of this park.