Familiy Backpacking Advice

[adam]

my first trip was yosemite creek (downstream from the yosemite creek campground, on hwy 120) when I was 8 (I think) and it went pretty well. It's not as much as a "destination" as a lake, and I don't know about fishing, but on the other hand, there are lots of places along the way to camp, so you don't have to make it to a specific place. you could then day hike to eagle peak or the top of yosemite falls. I suppose you could just keep going downhill and end in the valley with a bus return, but I don't know how all that steep downhill would go over-- although it's probably a lot harder on adult than kid knees!