This year we visited Lori’s sister’s family in Tuolumne for Christmas. With Yosemite an easy drive from there we spent the day after Christmas playing in the snow with my brother and his daughter. We finally got a chance to use our snowshoes and took a short loop through the meadow below Yosemite Falls. The rest of the year this area is closed to hiking, but in the winter when it’s covered by a couple of feet of snow, it’s fair game.