We were looking for something to do this weekend, and I was on the Yosemite website helping a co-worker with her weekend trip and I noticed that the upcoming weekend was the bikes only weekend on tioga pass. This was something we had been wanting to do for a few years, but it hard to plan around as the notification is only ever a few days in advance. This year worked out!
Tioga pass is the trans sierra road through Yosemite park. The closed section is from Tuolumne Grove to the park border at Tioga pass. A solid 75km of solid car free riding, and I did the 19km extension down to 395 to climb back up Tioga pass from the eastside.
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| No cars!!!! |
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| Clouds rest and half dome a bit further down |
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| impressively chunky for May marmots |
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| Polly Dome middle, Tenaya Peak right |
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| Tenaya Lake |
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| Tuolumne Meadows |
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| Ellery Bowl |
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| Looking towards coke chute and third pillar of Dana (where we were a little over a month before, skiing) |
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| Looking up the eastside climb... from where it really starts. |
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| What a day |
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| Ellery Lake |
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| Tioga Lake |
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| Tioga Pass and Yosemite park entrance. |
I rode with Caitlin until our lunch on the way out in Tuolumne meadows. From there she was going to ride to the pass and turn around and I was going to try and catch her on the way back. Of course my eyes were bigger than my legs and I did not catch her... The ride out and back on the east side of Tioga Pass took longer than expected... ~1000m of climbing. Much later the climb out of Yosemite creek was particularly hard when being a bit bonked. Such a wonderful day and ride and I am thankful that the NPS opens Tioga Pass up for a bike only weekend most years.
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