Snowpack Creating Spectacular Waterfalls in Yosemite Valley

[SSSdave]

Just came back from a one-day road trip to the valley. I wanted to warm people that mosquitoes have just recently come out in the usual valley areas and are very h-u-n-g-r-e-y. Saw quite a lot of unprepared shorts and t-shirt types really getting dined on. Likely will be way worse in just a week. There are a lot of people in the valley for midweek with the constant noise of cars making it rather unpleasant most of the day. Of course the big water is the draw. Lots of tripods and photographers everywhere. This weekend will be a zoo and the following holiday weekend is likely to be painful gridlock. Due to the high temps, snow is surprisingly mostly melted back already at Crane Flat ~6k. Areas in the Merced Canyon below about 3.5k are quite brown while areas above 4.5k are still pretty green without flowers. The valley at 4k has just the first early wildflowers coming out though dogwoods are putting on a good show. Lots of flooded areas of course as the Merced is high especially early morning and before sunset when it peaks each day with early afternoon the null. ...David