Yosemite: land of the bears

So lets catch up with the number of national parks we have been to and put Yosemite in the spotlight. Yosemite is great if you like giant rock formations, huge pine trees and German tourists:) The park offers many great hikes but they can be pretty packed during holiday season. The funniest thing though is the all-around paranoia of bear attacks. On every possible surface they hang notices to warn you not to leave ANY food in your car, in your tent, on your table, and if possible don't even think about food. They have bear-proof boxes made of steel to store all your food and smelly items and preferably lock them up with a numeric padlock secure enough that an average bear or a crafty squirrel will not figure out the combination. These rules and the lack of sufficient benches makes it pretty difficult to eat anywhere at all after sunset, Anyway in the end we didn't meet any bears even though Paul kept dangerously attractive socks in our tent:P