Routes / Re: Vancouver -> Yosemite or Vancouver -> San Francisco ?
« on: October 23, 2024, 03:47:48 pm »In August in California -
Even a few miles in from the coast it is really hot.
And in the Central Valley it is brutally hot.
2024 had unrelenting heat especially in the Valley.
I would suggest heading inland to Crater Lake N.P in southern Oregon.
And then heading south on the Sierra Cascades route.
Anything much south of Yosemite will be hot and hotter.
Not to mention, an August trip risks forest fires in the Cascades and Sierras, especially.
Hmm, for the next years I am forced to go in August. So maybe I should do Alaska or Canada first.
Crater Lake looks beautiful, but then I would miss the Redwood Forests along the Northern Californian coast, right? And it‘s extra miles and altitude I guess.