Picture of the Day – A Dry Yosemite Creek

This is another of the pictures that I took on my last visit to Yosemite in October. At this point, I am descending on the Tioga Road near where it meets up with the Big Oak Flat Road to go down into Yosemite Valley. There is a creek underneath these rocks, but at this point in Autumn, it is only a tiny trickle. In Spring it will be much fuller as the snow pack melts.

It may be difficult to tell, but the creek bed here is very steep and even steeper behind me as the water makes its way north down to the Tuolumne River. This large jumble of rocks actually blocks the flow of the river and it must go underneath these rocks to continue. I would love to go back in Spring when the water is full to capture this same scene.

But this photo shows Autumn in bloom in upper Yosemite. As I descended further down the roads, it got better and better. I was lucky on this trip, at least in Yosemite Valley, as I found Autumn at the very best time.