Arriving at Yosemite Gate

10:02 AM: On morning arrival at the South entrance (elevation, 5200 ft) via Hwy 41, it is snowing!! The very reliable Weather.com forecasted only 20% rain showers (Hello! I guess the other 80% was SNOW then!). It's WunderGround.com for me now. Okay, so these fairly large "winter" snow flakes are tumbling on our cheezy rental Toyota Matrix (Mr. Fozzie's still driving in his flowery beach shorts). Arrgh. We'll still head up Wawona Rd. toward our destination, the Valley (elevation, 4000 ft) to see if death is there to meet us. After all, we didn't haul around a pair of heavy-duty snow cables and scaper back in the right corner of our trunk for nothing (plus every other imaginable piece of emergency/survival gear). From the entrance, we still have 45 miles of mountain to go (that's about 1.5 hours with the snow falling on us).