After returning to Yosemite Village from Happy Isles, we breezed through the Visitor Center and the museum before joining up with a 2:00pm Junior Ranger talk/walk outside the museum entrance. About a dozen kids were there, including the Arredondo men, accompanied by a motley crew of adults, and the ranger led us all out as a troop down one of the shuttle bus roads, across the main loop thoroughfare (typically choked with afternoon traffic), and into Sentinel Meadow – strategically situated in the Valley’s center with views east to Half Dome, north to Yosemite Falls, south to Glacier Point, and west toward Sentinel Rock and points beyond, the meadow offers one of the best single views in the whole Valley floor. After stopping for a few minutes’ lecture on the north side of the meadow, our group crossed to the southern edge, stopping in a copse of tall pines that perfectly framed the falls – we could see other ribbons of water as well, one to the north above the Ahwahnee Hotel (sorry, the Majestic Yosemite Hotel these days) and one below Glacier Point. Following this stop, we proceeded west to the Sentinel Bridge area where the ranger, who had been talking about the force of water in its various forms and how the Valley owes its existence to the flow of water and ice, showed us a sign noting the water level at that spot during the devastating floods here in January 1997, some 5 feet above the current grade level. Finishing his talk, the ranger led all the kids in taking the Junior Ranger oath and bestowed on each a handsome wooden badge, specific to Yosemite NP, which the boys each wore proudly. We understand the Junior Ranger program is available in all the national parks, so it will be fun to see how many such badges the guys can collect. Our outing thus concluded, we made our way back across the meadow to Yosemite Village, where we joined Jane and the rest of the party outside Degnan’s Deli before heading out on another adventure. No track recorded but about 0.84 miles round trip, per Gaia GPS.