Hwy 1 and San Francisco
Driving up the coastal highway 1, stopped in St Barbara, Monterey (great aquarium!), and San Francisco (with a detour to Marine headlands (good views on the bridge) and Muir Wood (wonderful trees), ie: plenty of photographs to show.(Left: Jellyfish in Monterey Bay aquarium)
Yosemite valley
From San Francisco I drove into Yosemite Valley within 3h; the lower roads and the valley floor were snow free but the upper rim had half a metre of snow–great to bivouac in, the nights over the valley were breathtaking (and luckily I did not encounter any bears). You'll get sick of Halfdome pictures, though.(Left: The view of Halfdome that was immortalised by Anselm Adams; taken in February 2005 around noon.)
Panoramic images
Panoramas from San Diego, San Francisco, and Yosemite; most of them aren't very good because I did not fix exposure (and couldn't be bothered to clean up in post-production); there are horizontal panoramas and a vertical one.(Left: San Francisco's skyline, seen from Telegraph Hill.)
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