Day 2 had the one peak to bag with its Buena Vista as well as some beautiful lakes to stop by: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/08/buena-yosemite-buena-vista-lake-and.html
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Royal Arch Lake.
Grey water ripples below a rise of granite sporting a blind arch. In the foreground, the view stands on a slab of granite with a tree at its edge and low greenery between the rock and the water.
Royal Arch Lake from Buena Vista Peak. A couple rocks are seen of the foreground, but generally small trees spread out from the viewer. They break in the middle for a blue lake with green at its edges and a gently sloping granite mound to it's left. Within the granite, the inner portion of an arch of rock has fallen away. Another mountain dominates the distance, this mostly green with a middle cliff face of rock.
Buena Vista Lake from near Buena Vista Peak.
Granite foreground with a few loose rocks slopes away, then vanishes behind the slope. As the land is seen again, a large lake rests in it, showing off a deep blue. The land slopes away and vanishes again, leaving distant granite mountains to spring up from behind it. All under puffy clouds in the right half of the sky.
A bee pollinating a Sierra tiger lily. A tube flower with orange petals and spotted interior hosts a bee way down inside, running around all its sexual parts. Behind are some buds and the base of another flower on a second stem.