So I forgot to finish out our trip to Yosemite! There's more than just the hike - there's sunset on Sentinel Dome, the Mariposa Grove, and The Lodge at the Pines. I won't give a narrative for everything, but the sunset on Sentinel Dome deserves at least a little one!
Sunset on Sentinel Dome is one of those hikes that tops the charts. It's an easy mile hike from where you can park, and the night we went there was a Ranger leading a group of people for what we would learn later was a moonlit walk. We took our own trip up, and once the Ranger group got there I listened in to what he was saying. He started talking moon phases and I sort of had that "Is he ever going to let them go explore and watch the sunset?" feeling when all the sudden he concluded with, "And if I've timed it right you will look over my left shoulder and see the first slivers of our full moon." And boy was he right! It was huge, and it just popped out of NOWHERE! Every camera on the top of Sentinel Dome swiveled to the Clark Range to capture the pictures and sunset was completely forgotten.
Man, do we have good timing!? Who knew it would be a monstrous full moon!? And that we would watch it from the one spot in the park with a 360 degree view?! :0 After a while we walked down on our own, jingling keys and bear bells the whole way in the dark. Are you there, bears?!
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