Walking in a Fall Wonderland

Woke up this morning and the weather was nice. It had rained last night. Still some clouds around, but we decided to risk it. I am so glad we did.

We decided to hike to Cathedral Lakes. It snowed almost the whole time (I'll post pics when I get home and have high speed access). That sounds worse that it was. It was a warm snow in that it was in the 40s, so I never felt cold. Also, until the end, the flakes weren't big, so they bounced right off and we didn't get wet. It was strange in that when the sun was out, or the sky was brightest, it was snowing the hardest.

We didn't encounter that many other hikers so things were very peaceful. The folks we did run into were very friendly--one guy was even giving me some shit about the Raiders (I was wearing a Raiders hat). The hike moved around Cathedral Peak. With the changing angles and cloud conditions, we got a lot of interesting looks at it. The lake itself was very cool. We saw fog rolling in and there are views of many domes and peaks from the lake. We climbed some rocks on the southwest side and were able to look down on Tenaya Lake.

Just got done watching Penn St. lose to Michigan (booo) and Michigan State thump on Notre Dame (boo-hoo....NOT). Michigan State reminds me of an old gf (who went there as an undergrad) and a funny MSU-Michigan story...but that's for another post about her. There are two restaurants in the town where we are staying. We had breakfast at one, so we'll try the other for dinner and the SC-Washington State game.