Despite its enormous size, the majority of Yosemite's 4 million annual visitors confine themselves within the Yosemite Valley ... Yosemite Falls and the Merced River. The Mist Trail also offers ...

In the middle of Yosemite Village in the deep valley of California's upper Merced River is a soft-drink machine ... bearing no name on my maps. Going up was like climbing the back of a mythically ...