Big country is a favourite of mine, the landscape not the band, sorry showing my age there. So I was delighted when 2 friends from a previous hike in Yellowstone Mark and Maria emailed me and said they were going on 2 hikes back to back in Yosemite. Did I want to come? The answer well of course was yes. So a plan started to emerge. Both of the hikes were 5 day, 4 night hikes around the Tuolumne Meadows area of Yosemite. I was glad we were avoiding the crowds in the more