We originally planned to camp at Camp 4 on day 3. But the morning rain kinda discouraged us. And we are almost done so we decided to leave the park in the afternoon. I was a little tired after the Half Dome so I decided to skip Panorama Trail and leave it for the next time :P. We got up late (around 8am) and had breakfast. We took off and headed Glacier Point. On the way to GP, we stopped at a place on the North Shore Rd where one can view El Capitan and Bridal Veil Fall. El Capitan is famous for its being a monolithic rock, without a crack! Really hard to imagine such a big rock. It’s also a very popular place for rock climbing. It was a little foggy after the rain. I had to wait for the cloud to clear to take pictures. The Bridal Veil Fall is very beautiful and really deserves the name. The fall wasn’t there before the last glacical age. The glacier eroded the valley and shaped the cliffs.

We also stopped at the Bridal Veil Fall view point. I was able to get several nice pictures of the creek flowing on the rocks, with long exposure. I am addicted to long exposures on rivers and creeks :P. But it was too wet under the fall. The camera and us all got very wet. After getting back to the car, we had to turn the heater on and dry ourselves and the lens.

We arrived Glacier Point around noon. It was a zoo of people, very crowded! The view is fantastic. Both Upper & Lower Yosemite Falls, Vernal Fall, Nevada Fall, North Dome, Basket Dome and Half Dome are all in the view. Snow capped mountains like Mt Whitney are also visible. We waited about one hour for the cloud to clear so that I can take a picture of Half Dome but it never did :(. Just before we took off we learned from a post that the place where the cloud resists to go away is called “Clouds Rest”! I got a good shot at the Nevada and Vernal Falls though. 

On our way out of the park, we saw a bunch of cars parked on the roadside near Crane Flat. We knew they must be looking something so we parked and joined them. It was a bear! We were talking about the pity that we didn’t see a bear in Yosemite one minute before! It was a cub and the ranger told us it’s a one year old black bear although the fur is brown. Some people thought it was a grizzly but actually there is no grizzly in the park. The baby bear was having his dinner on the meadow. He moved a little closer but never close enough so that I can take a good shot. The pictures are unsatisfiable even with 300mm zoom and a tripod. A guy was shooting with a 20D and a 300mm with IS. I so envied him. 

On our way out, we stopped at another creek called Cascade Creek. It is actually quite a big creek. There was a big concrete bridge over it. 

We stayed the night at Sonora at a very lovely motel. It was a Country Inn I believe, on the side of highway 108.