RHH's photos with the keyword: gaylor lakes

I have jut a couple more photos to post from Yosemite National Park and then will go back to posting photos from our trip to Europe last summer. This is Upper Gaylor Lake in the northeast part of Yosemite.

This was part of the trail from Upper Gaylor Lake to the Great Sierra Mine, an abandoned silver mine on the northeast side of Yosemite National Park.

From Gaylor Lakes we hiked to the site of the now-abandoned Great Sierra Silver Mine on the northeast border of Yosemite. The effort was never successful and only a small amount of silver was found. The area, however, is full of old ruined buildings and mine shafts.

The second day of our stay in Yosemite we drove from our Crane Flat campground to the Tuolumne Meadows Vistors' Center and asked about hiking in the area. The ranger to whom we spoke suggested the Gaylor Lakes Trail further to the east. We spent a good part of the day hiking that trail first to Middle Gaylor Lake, shown in the photo, then to Upper Gaylor Lake and finally to the site of the Great Sierra Silver Mine in the mountains beyond the lakes.

Photographed near Olmstead point in Yosemite National Park, this is a Penstemon I have not identified.