{"id":274,"date":"2019-04-13T22:04:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T22:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hojnotes.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2019-04-13T22:04:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T22:04:01","slug":"yosemite-spring-break-2019-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hojnotes.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/13\/yosemite-spring-break-2019-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Yosemite Spring Break 2019: By the Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weeks before flight that Orbitz emails confirmation: 6<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weeks before flight that Orbitz emails cancellation: 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Days before flight that Orbitz emails cancellation: 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minutes before flight that Orbitz emails cancellation: 25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crashes world-wide of Boeing 737 Max 8\u2019s in last five\nmonths: 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crash survivors: 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Date of most recent crash: 03-10-2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Date FAA states publicly that Boeing 737 Max 8\u2019s are safe to\nfly: 03-12-2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Date President Trump states publicly that Boeing 737 Max 8\u2019s\nare grounded: 03-13-2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Date of our flight: 03-30-2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tiny stars tattooed up American Airlines customer service\ngate agent\u2019s neck: 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minutes gate agent searches for one-stop flight, destination\nFresno-Yosemite: 55<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minutes gate agent searches for two-stop flight, destination\nFresno-Yosemite: \u00bd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hours added to travel time: 9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California National Parks planned to visit: 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California National Parks visited: 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Degrees oven heated for 10 minutes to enjoy homemade \u2013 best\nif sprinkled with water \u2013 bread by Robin (rental homeowner in Three Rivers,\nnear Sequoia National Park): 350<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Number of times in 3-nights Cheryl said <em>I love this house<\/em> (and Robin, who\u2019d thought of everything): 9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Average mph on hairpin curves inside Sequoia National Park: 12<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Average number of hairpin curves per mile of road: 10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dramamine pills, patches, chewables stocked in rental home:\n0,0,0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Number of times, per mile, wife, head-in-hand said, <em>not so fast baby<\/em>: 10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cubic feet of General Sherman (<em>Sequoiadendron giganteum<\/em>): 52,500<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Age of General Sherman, considered middle-aged: 2000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Age of my life\u2019s general and I (<em>Senilis<\/em> <em>populi<\/em>) combined,\nconsidered middle-aged: 106<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feet elevation, Giant Forest: 6900<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feet snow piled atop hiking signs in Giant Forest: 3 &#8211; 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visitors who disobeyed mostly-buried signs warning to <em>protect the General, stay behind rails<\/em>:\n20<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Milennials in lulu lemon pants who posed with one leg up\nhumping, hugging on General Sherman making peace sign and sticking out tongue:\n1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Number of perky college co-eds wearing Keds fresh from\nclimbing Moro Rock who encouraged my dubious wife, <em>you got this<\/em>: 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Number of times hiker just ahead of us froze on Moro Rock \u2013 \u00a0unhealthy grip on iron rails, standing in a vigorous stream of meltwater \u2013 unable to move, panicked, yet shouted at in unsympathetic foreign language from his trailing companion cell to leap over a snow-pack crevasse, the shrieks ending abruptly with a compelling shove in ass: 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feet elevation in Sequoia Foothills: 2000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feet of snow in Sequoia Foothills: 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Foothills Visitor Center employees: 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Foothills Visitor Center employees who advised proper dress\non Marble Falls trail, <em>a lovely trail\nthis time of year when ticks are out in full force<\/em>: 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cans of  <em>Deepwoods Off<\/em> emptied onto skin, clothes, sunglasses, and camera lens: 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Number of ticks I thought I\u2019d seen crawling on blades of\ngrass buttering my ankles to Marble Falls: 7,378<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tempo of Boston ear-worm song, <em>Hitch a Ride<\/em>, hummed to myself entire hike: 4\/4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Map miles from Potwisha campground trailhead (near site #14)\nto Marble Falls: 2.7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Garmin miles from Potwisha campground dump (recommended by\nVisitor Center) to Marble Falls: 3.7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Number of hickory walking sticks carried by otherworldly tall,\nslim, bespectacled, white-bearded hiker dressed head-to-toe in anti-tick\nregalia: white hat, white neck-flap, white mosquito-net, white shirt, white\npant tucked into white socks and striding and gliding and looking all the rolling\nhills like <em>the Ghost of John Muir<\/em>: 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Number of ticks hitching a ride on me and Cheryl (protected,\nI believe, not by dint of Deet, but <em>the\nGhost of John Muir<\/em>): 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feet elevation, Yosemite Valley: 3966<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feet elevation, Yosemite Mountain Hideaway rental: 6000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nights at Mountain Hideaway: 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Power outages at Mountain Hideaway: 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visits by Hideaway homeowner, Jeff Hornacek, to switch to\nbackup power: 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amps drawn by electric heaters, unable to run on backup\npower: 30<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nightly low temperature at 6000 feet: 38F<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Number of times I resisted googling \u2018Jeff Hornacek\u2019,\nwondering, <em>that<\/em> <em>Jeff Hornacek?<\/em>: 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feet from Mountain Hideaway to nearest charred, black spike\nof lodgepole pine, a spent-matchstick, the last hot lick in a stretch of dead-forest,\nan ominous reminder of last summer\u2019s raging fires that closed the Park, of\nwhich Non-Baller Hornacek told me, <em>We really\nthought we\u2019d lost the neighborhood<\/em>: 50<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feet elevation atop Nevada Falls: 5971<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hikes planned on Mist Trail to Nevada Falls: 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hikes diverted from Mist Trail to John Muir Trail, <em>Winter Route<\/em>, due to <em>Avalanche Danger<\/em>: 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deaths in 2019 due to hikers ignoring Park safety blockades:\n2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hikers I saw on Mist Trail ignoring Park safety blockades: 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Number of rotting limbs (tree) planted in snow for wobbly\nhandhold on slick ridge of <em>Winter<\/em> <em>Route<\/em>: 24<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Number of tricky maneuvers in which I imagined myself <em>Tommy Caldwell, professional rock climber<\/em>:\n3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wiry septuagenarians in pink nylon track suit, spiked boots\nwho passed me on way up: 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wiry septuagenarians in pink nylon track suit, spiked boots\nwho passed me on way down: 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Number of hikers in 2015 in Yosemite diagnosed with plague\nlikely received from a flea bite transmitted by rodent: 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sightings of black bear, elk, mule deer: 0,0,10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sightings of rodent: 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minutes waiting for Yosemite shuttle to Mirror Lake (promoted\nrunning every 15 to 20): 60<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mirror Lake reflection photos: 15 to 20<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Places in Yosemite where you cannot hear the sound of bubbling,\nburbling, sprinkling, rushing, tumbling, or roaring water: 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Number of rainbows seen in waterfalls: 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Number of times hiking Cheryl uttered, <em>I am not Tommy Caldwell; Do I look like Tommy Caldwell; Who do you\nthink I am, Tommy Caldwell?<\/em>, referencing the professional mountain climber\nfeatured in the Netflix documentary, <em>Dawn\nWall<\/em>, who dedicated his life to scaling an impossible face of El Capitan:\n124<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hours of climbing (<em>per nps.gov\/yose\/planyourvisit<\/em>) that Cheryl and I anticipate, in a summer or fall return to Yosemite, we\u2019ll need to shinny up near El Capitan, not on El Capitan &#8211; <em>who do you think we are, Tommy Caldwell?<\/em> \u2013 but the imposing, glowing Half-Dome: 10 to 12<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" 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