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Hetch Hetchy, July 2004

Day 4

We left our campsite at 6:00 am and I was back to the dam at 9:30 am.  After crossing it I dropped my pack and jogged for 10 minutes back up the road to the car in the backpackers parking lot and drove it down to the day use area at the dam.  We didn't rush out however.  During the trek out Hannah and I stopped at a pool just upstream of the first footbridges west of Rancheria Falls for a swim in the creek that drains Tiltill Valley and later for a swim in the reservoir.  In between, we ate breakfast on an exposed granite outcropping, just below Hetch Hetchy Dome with a great view of Kolana Rock, but just far enough upstream to not see the dam.  

During our 4 days on the trails we encountered a lot of bear poo, but most of it on the last day on the trail between Rancheria Falls and the dam.  Every time I inspected it I was glad to see it was full of berries and not candy bar wrappers.  One sample was only 5 minutes from the tunnel at the north end of the dam.

And our final photo, taken by Henrik from the footbridge at Wapama Falls and looking upstream, shows Casey and Hannah once again breaking the rules, this time by swimming in Hetch Hetchy.

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