Yosemite National Park

I covered bay area (Google head quarters, Zepplin Hangars, Sunnyvale, Mountain View) and 17 mile drive in first four days of my California exploration. I knew from my friends in Cali. that even if you go for trek every weekend and that to for 5 years you will not repeat any terk. So, the rest of my vacation in Californai was dedicated to trek.
As planned earlier we, Ajay, myself and Ashwin went to a park known for it's scenic beauty, treking, hiking and all other wild sports, Yosemite National Park. For the hilly areas we rented a special vehicle "Wrangler", a jeep, because we thought adventure should begin right from travelling. Had fun driving "Wrangler". Reached Yosemite at around 2 pm on last Sunday 07/02/06, we had been told that, at the visitor entrance a map of all the treks and hikes will be provided, so were pretty sure that the first day is going to be adventurous. It was adventurous but not in case of hikes of treks but some wild adventure.
We started our trek based on the the time availability, as didn't have flaslights we had to finish the trek before it get's dark, so choose small trails of 1 to 2 miles. Started with Taft point, this point is know for fissures in the rock plataeu, cliffs and a spactaucular view of the whole valley.

As per plan we were treking towards Sentennial point, this trek trail is little off the usual trails and so more isolated. After traking for a mile or so, we heard a wild roar. We looked in the direction of that roar and oh.. my god.. can't imagine it was a wild black bear, Ashwin pointed in that direction and with in a blink we started running back, we nearly ran for 15 minutes with our back packs, that was terrific, but phew.. we were in good shape because of that terffic running. Otherwise don't know what would have happened, but I was little depressed as I couldn't get a chance to shoot the bear through my camcorder. That was the last short trek for that day, because the other trek trails were longer and it was almost 5 pm then, so decided to go to the Glacier point most recommended sceninc place in the Yosemite Park. From Glacier point we got to see some snow covered peaks, a highest peak of Yosemite (Half Dome), beautiful yosemite valley and two gigantic water falls (Vernal and Nevada) (which seemed to be very small from the height of 5000 ft. of Gacier point). The view was so beautiful that we decided to experience nature's beauty till sunset.

The day ended at Glacier point returned back to a Motel, in Oakhurst, (couldn't get a campground in Yosemite, it was all booked 2 months ago) 16 mile away from Yosemite park. Decided to gather more information of the hike trails as the inormation provided at the entrance of the park was not sufficient.