On Sunday, we hiked for three hours at Yosemite's Mariposa Grove of giant redwoods, and still had lots of energy and no stiffness. On Monday we finally started feeling some minor muscle aches from Saturday. Duane had a final visit to his physical therapist Naraj. Everything was fine, and he got some additional strengthening exercises 'to go'.Today's hike around the Mariposa Grove was reminiscent of the times we have visited Calaveras Big Trees, Sequoia National Park and Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park. This grove of big trees, however, I had missed depsite the many times Duane and I have been to Yosemite.
Wild flowers were in abundance in this part of Yosemite. We saw wild irises, goldenrod, wild strawberries and some kind of wild rose. We also saw a beautiful butterfly, which we believe to be a Sagebrush Checkerspot.
Our son came with and got a chance to explore the trees, climb some rocks, take photographs of deer, and check out all of the sticks. He had a good time! One of our mentors, Deb, also came along as did Vivian, one of our fellow hikers.We've begun scheming for how and when we can scale Half Dome ourselves, this year or next.
To be continued?
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