On the third day, we were in no hurry to leave, so we left the tent up and went exploring again. I took Sonja and Leilani back up the rocks I had found the day before. We all had lots of fun climbing around:
It looks like you could climb straight up the rock, but we had to find easier was around. From below:
And from above, looking back down on Stanislaus Meadow:
But there were places where it was safe to climb up the rocks, which Leilani loves to do. I need to take her to the climbing gym this year:
And we found a lot more flowers. With the late snow melt, there was still plenty of water and the days were getting very warm. Sonja was delighted by this field of Golden Brodiaea:
Groundsel, which Andy calls LYF (little yellow flower):
A bright Penstemon:
Pussypaws:
And some sort of shimmery rock:
We stopped to play in the snow for a while. Andy made the snowmen, and Leilani put the decorations on them:
This is the top of the big rock I saw the previous day. I has erratic boulders left by the glaciers, and a stripe of white granite. This stripe is much harder and you can still feel the glacial polish on it:
