Yosemite

Undoubtedly it is attraction not only for native visitors but primarily for those from abroad. The highest waterfalls in the States are situated right here, moreover... if you lose your way and stay afresco overnight , say good bye to your backpack for a time. Following smell of food, bears do not hesitate to open a car like a can. What would remain of you then?

In other respects, Yosemite (Sierra Nevada) looks like our Slovak uplands, leaving some "slightly" different shape of massives and special kinds of pine trees out of consideration. It provides the same forest and rock tourism, trails are marked with little stone pyramids, and all the attractions are accessible from the main visitor centre within one day. Naturally, the whole national park is far larger than that and worth hiking crisscross being equipped for several days even weeks (and permitted by officials). I was not given so much time, but still I enjoyed the endless serpentine pathways and roadways twisting crosswise the park and causing a wailing sound of tyres.

Therefore there are steel storage lockers installed in campsites comprising two locking units, just in case some Yogi would manage to puzzle out the principle of a classic bolt. It's obviously effective considering it took me about a quarter of an hour to unlock it in the middle of the night without any flashlight what was in fact the same outer conditions as the animals usually have.
Next night the opportunity to improve my new burglar skills didn't come back. 'Cause WE did not come back. Under some still unclear circumstances we (me & Brano) lost a path after several-hours' walk (somewhere close to the North Dome) and the rest of the day were trying to get back by any means, making a way through virgin bluffs and dense vegetation, until being spit out onto the edge of over one-hundred-meter high rock-face. That was really enough even for us. Shortly after the sunset, soiled and tired we settled down on a plain mainly surrounded by forest though with a view onto the valley. We lit a fire and stayed overnight occasionally falling into a merciful sleep, in perfect misery of unbearable cold, totally penetrated by ants and needles and constantly keeping eyes peeled for any potential danger...

...Next morning the sun rose and resolved our odyssey. Not far from us there was a pathway snaking directly to our campsite. Fun, isn't it? Backpacks, of course, had been all the night 30m far off, just to make sure that the bear wouldn't be the only one to survive the fun. Possibly a ranger, who would impose a pricy fine for making fire in a forest area (furthermore during the dry season) with a consequent starvation to death some day along our yourney.