Getting up to Cathedral lakes in early October.
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 8:29 am
Hello all,
Firstly thanks, this forum has so much useful information for a first time Yosemite-visitor!
In a few weeks I will be visiting Yosemite with my boyfriend from the UK (it's been on my bucket list for years) and we are planning a one way backpack trip starting at Cathedral lakes on Oct 9 and ending in Yosemite Valley 4-5 days later. We've got all the equipment for the sort of weather in October we might get (aka anything from sunshine to snow!), permits and tonnes of excitement. We've just come across one problem which we are really hoping some folk who know the park well could help us to figure out. We were planning on leaving our hire car in the Valley and using the in park shuttle to get up to Tuolumne meadows to start our hike but it's now clear the buses will have stopped running by then. Has anyone done a one way trip at this time of year before? Is there a cab company someone knows of, or a local guide who we could pay for a ride? Any other people planning something similar we could hook up with? We thought about trying to hitchhike up there but it seems that it may not be the most sensible idea given the Californian laws. Any knowledge or ideas would be really really appreciated as we really want to make this work.
Thanks so much for you help.
Kind regards
Fern
UK
Firstly thanks, this forum has so much useful information for a first time Yosemite-visitor!
In a few weeks I will be visiting Yosemite with my boyfriend from the UK (it's been on my bucket list for years) and we are planning a one way backpack trip starting at Cathedral lakes on Oct 9 and ending in Yosemite Valley 4-5 days later. We've got all the equipment for the sort of weather in October we might get (aka anything from sunshine to snow!), permits and tonnes of excitement. We've just come across one problem which we are really hoping some folk who know the park well could help us to figure out. We were planning on leaving our hire car in the Valley and using the in park shuttle to get up to Tuolumne meadows to start our hike but it's now clear the buses will have stopped running by then. Has anyone done a one way trip at this time of year before? Is there a cab company someone knows of, or a local guide who we could pay for a ride? Any other people planning something similar we could hook up with? We thought about trying to hitchhike up there but it seems that it may not be the most sensible idea given the Californian laws. Any knowledge or ideas would be really really appreciated as we really want to make this work.
Thanks so much for you help.
Kind regards
Fern
UK