For the first time in 10 years, Yosemite closed ALL ingress and egress roads due to huge continuous snowstorms. This rare event happened RIGHT before our scheduled trip - the 1st time the kids were going to get to see Yosemite. We were therefore very thankful that the roads opened up and the sun all of a sudden came out RIGHT ON that particular morning of our trip. It was also the ONLY sunny day with sunshine in a 20-day time span (it was rainy/snowy/cloudy 10 days before AND after that first day of our trip.) It was also on that day that I finally felt justified to have an SUV with all-terrain tires :)
Due to its low elevation, snow usually melts as soon as the sun hits so photographers had to get up really early in the morning to film the Valley in snow. Although folks who got stuck in the Park during the prior week also had continuous snow capped tree views, they had to endure horrid storms and road conditions. So we were indeed very blessed to be able to enjoy the magnificent snow-veiled Valley against blue skies with decent driving conditions.
We were actually glad that it snowed on the 2nd day as it was the kids first time experiencing snowfall and seeing how individually intricate each snowflake was. It got cold and rainy the 3rd day but we finished building our snowman and were on our way home anyway.
Had a great time relaxing, enjoying the scenary, sledding, tubing, making snow angels, watching snowflakes, and photographing. Enjoy the album :)
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