We have been planning to do this hike last 2 years but somehow or the other it was getting cancelled out. Due to COVID pandemic, we all have been working from home since mid Feb 2020. We haven't been able to do hiking for a few months as we were getting used to the situation. During August month onwards, we started going for moderate 5-7mile hike with some amount of difficulty. It definitely showed us we were out of shape in no time. One fine day we decided to get out and finish our yearly ritual of going to Yosemite. All of us are too euphoric as we were going out after 8 months (WOW!!). We loaded the van as if we were taking days and days of vacation :). We stayed in Pine mountain valley and woke up 4.30am in the morning and started driving at 5.30am. We did not realize it was damn dark and can barely see anything. We started the hike at 8am. Most of it was uphill but the crew went with lot of jubilation. It didn't feel that we were hiking some steep uphills. Of course, when someone in the crew takes a picture of us we gain energy. We reached the top as expected and guess what we changed to Indian dresses and had a photo shoot on the top. The 360 views from top are spectacular and felt so accomplished. While coming down we realized how much we climbed :(. We celebrated the night with Pizza and Beer from family owned brewery in Pine mountain valley.
