Western National Parks - Zion 2012 - April Photo

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK

High above Yosemite Valley lies a granite kingdom formed over 80 million years ago known as Tuolumme Meadows. It is a world of stark glacier-carved rock masses and windswept Jeffrey pines. The brutality of high altitude Sierra winds strips trees of needles and branches until windward sides are wind pruned from dehydration.