Some day I have to go back packing in California. Visited Yosemite back when I was in high school but stayed in a cabin. Just drove up and rented one. Now days I hear you are lucky to reserve one months out. Wyoming was awesome except for the smokey haze drifting over from the fires in the Pacific North West. My son, daughter and her husband and I did a 5 day loop. Not many trees in the "forest" when the altitude got over 10,000 feet. Lots of lakes though.