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If you push your nose into the bark and take a deep whiff, you'll capture the aroma of butterscotch (or, some say, vanilla). If you do not smell anything, you might have mistakenly made your advances to a Ponderosa pine, which has comparable looking puzzle-piece bark. Crowd Element: Medium. Maybe it's the short path or perhaps it's my frustrating personal charm, but I have actually never ever been alone here.
Parking: small lot at the trailhead, which is also the trailhead for Taft Point. You'll likely end up parking along the shoulder of Glacier Point Road, however this is nothing to be embarrassed of. Nearby Bathrooms: at the trailhead (outhouse variety) Nearest Snacks: gift shop & cafeteria at Glacier Point, 7.
The nearby ones are 2 miles east at Glacier Point (examine the back of the parking area) and 3 miles west at the Mono Meadow trailhead. Arriving: From The Most Complete Run-Down to Yosemite, turn left and travel 17. 3 miles (27. 7 km) to Glacier Point Road. From the valley, take roadway 41 9 miles (14.
As soon as you're on Glacier Point Roadway, follow it to the trailhead 13. 6 miles (21. 8 km) later on. There's a small car park and an outhouse on the left, both of which are noticeable in this Google Street View panorama of the trailhead location. (You can also see a sliver of Sentinel Dome behind the outhouse.) Dangers: The top of the dome is large and only slopes slightly, however it gets steeper as you approach the edges.
Chill winds often kick up on the top of the dome around sundown. It does not occur every evening - the pattern I think I've detected is that it only occurs if there's someone there who didn't bring a coat. So don't be that person. If you are that person, you can normally pull away down to the shoulder of the dome and warm up once again.
If you attempt to trek it anyhow, you'll most likely wind up following the footprints of the hikers who've preceded you and hoping they understood where they were going. The Yosemite Conservancy preserves a web cam along the northeast shoulder of Guard Dome that can provide you an idea of how much snow's left.