Sunday, August 7, 2011

Californ-i-a

Cali was BEAUTIFUL! We spent a few days in King's Canyon and Sequoia national parks, then spent two days in Yosemite and a day in San Francisco. Whilst in Yosemite, we took a rock climbing class on crack climbing and equipment. We were able to learn how to jam ourselves into little crevices and create hand and footholds for ourselves using cracks. We also learned how to smear, which is when you create footholds on solid granite walls using little to no help from the rock. It was fascinating how, in a day, we were able to accomplish so much. After the day we spent in San Francisco (take the cable car, do NOT walk far. You will never walk on such steep inclines in your life), we hit the road to head back to Fresno, where our flight was the next day. We saw advertisements for the Gaylor Garlic Fest, which is apparently really famous, so we stopped by. We had garlic ice cream, which was evidently the special there. It wasn't half bad, actually....
Overall, it was a lovely time of a week.

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