Curry Village Parking
Although being a workday Wednesday, the Yosemite Valley Trailhead Parking (on the Happy Isle Loop) became just full, so we backtracked and parked on the roadside near Curry Village (about 0.4 miles from the trailhead). I was wainly wearing a Nathan VaporKrar with front bottles, a vintage mountain biker 3L bladder camlbak (Red Sun brand, a race prize back from Hungary 12+ years ago), and as always a fanny pack. Later for the final attack I picked up my Mountainsmith Day TLS lumbar pack which I used two years ago when my twin brother Attila and me smashed the 4 mile trail to Glacier Point and back on the Panorama Trail and the Mist Trail to the valley floor. Overall later I filled the 3 big water bottles in the lumbar pack at the faucets at the bridge and that came about 2 gallons of water capacity with all the encumbrance of that. Next time I’m researching water purifier methods to be able to climb light. For shoes I was wearing a long discontinued Hoka One One Mafate Speed with a SOLE insole. I hoarded several of these pairs, because newer flyknit and seamless constructs are often not tall enough at the toe box for my giant big toes. (my big toes’ size is not seem to be that alarming on Fleet Feet’s Volumental 3D foot scan, but believe me that it looks like if Thor would smashed it with his hammer and it swole up, but that’s how it is normally).