Day 1

Happy isles to cloud rest junction
7.2 miles

Was up at 3am and published yesterday's post. I fell back to sleep and woke at 5:30 which is late for me,  830 est. Jerome and I went to breakfast at 6:30 and I had a huge breakfast.  When we got back to hotel Teri and Anita were almost ready. 

It was about a 3 hour drive to Yosemite valley. I was hoping we would arrive before noon but arrived about 1230. It took about 20 minutes to get the permit and buy a sandwich for lunch. 

Teri and Anita are staying in a tent cabin so we drove to curry village.  We said our goodbyes and we loaded the bus to Happy Isles to start the hike.  To start the hike off I went to turn on my GPS tracker (spot connect)  and it was not there.  I left it in Jerome's car. Jerome walked back to curry village to find Teri and the car and I waited at happy isles. 

Lucky Jerome just happened to walk by Teri otherwise it would of been difficult to find her since we need not know her tent number.  This whole process took about 45 minutes and Teri and Anita were able to join us the first mile.

My first steps were so exciting to begin a adventure I was dreaming of for more then two years. I was playing the theme song of the hike in my head. 

After about a mile the trail goes up steep switch backs to Nevada falls at 5914 (+1900).  Jerome was struggling to keep up my pace. I was just glad the climb was not like devils path and I felt the training paid off. The falls were amazing and our first rest. The rest of the day was just climbing and more switch backs to 7300 ft.