Transcript Upper Yosemite Falls

My family traveled to Northern California this summer for our vacation. We have
family that live in the San Francisco bay area, but one day, we drove a few hours to hike
Upper Yosemite Falls in the Sierra Nevada Valley. This photo is from the bottom,
driving through the park.
My brother Eric and I hiked Upper Yosemite Falls this past June. My mom and I are
avid hikers, so we ventured out west to find new trails to experience. The hike was
roughly six hours, 7.2 miles, and an elevation gain of 2,700 ft.
This is a picture of the top of Upper Yosemite Falls. You can see the massive amounts
of granite in the photo, composed by hundreds of smaller bodies of granite to create
that large structure. I learned that the granite was formed by solidification of previously
molten rock material and after, was exposed by erosion of rocks.
This is me at the top of the falls, 2,700 feet above the park. This photo has more of an
open view of the park that allows you to see the vastness of Yosemite Valley. Until it
was filled with sediment and became a meadow, that valley once contained a lake.
I took this picture from the top
point of the hike. Behind me, is a
small water hole that feeds into the
waterfall. At the point where you
can’t see the water anymore, that’s
when the falls start to drop to the
bottom of Yosemite Valley. The
rocks are kind of stacked on top of
each other; this infers the former
glaciated landscape of the national
park before the glacier became
loose and the transported rocks
morphed the landscape.
Finally, this is my entire family at the top of the falls. From fellow hikers, we learned
that Yosemite Falls is one of the tallest waterfall in North America and the entire park
of Yosemite stretches over roughly 1,200 square miles. In conclusion, now that I have
learned more from this class, I can understand and appreciate the formation and
maintenance of Yosemite National Park.