As I was saying...  The snow was now coming down harder, the ABS brakes were employed as we successfully got over the col, and made a very slow decent down the other side. At last, the road was flattening out, but the snow coming down ever harder. The road conditions were now of packed snow and ice, and with little idea of how far we still had to go and the gradients up ahead, we pulled in. It was time to have a think about what to do. We were next to a ...

Well, we headed north in the end, despite the snow covering the mountains around the valley of the Great Salt Lake. We hoped to see the Tetons, which had been reccommended by many fellow hikers in the other National Parks - particularly by Matthew. If we could see the Teons, we could then drive up through Yellowstone, hopefully have a walk there before heading back west to the coast, weaving our way through Redwood National Park and the beaches to the North of SF...

A story about a bear! "Pass the bear spray! There s a bear"  Without hesitation, Jen passed it over, but wondering, was it another wind up? The daring duo had only just arrived in Yosemite that morning, and were out for a quiet afternoon stroll to 2 waterfalls near the Hetch Hetchy reservoir.  Jen casually stepped to one side to see around the blouder that blocked her vision of the path ahead, and there, about 20m ahead, a Black Be...

Made it! After 28 hours of travel we are finally in San Francisco. Our journey started at 4.30am (Sunday) from the Youth Hostel in Vancouver with a 40minute walk to the Greyhound Bus. We managed a short sleep before the US border, before the ordeal of immigration and obtaining the 90 day visa waiver. It should have been a very straight forward bit of bureaucracy, but the border guards were far more interested in us than in any of the other passengers. Surely we a...