Today we broke camp about 6:30am and headed for Little Yosemite Valley camp site. Today was our last uphill climb of about 500 feet in elevation over about two miles. At the top was a beautiful view of Yosemite Valley. During our decent, we entered an area that a fire had decimated a few years ago. Most of the standing trees were dead but the ground vegetation had made a comeback. Especially the wild flowers. We stopped about noon for lunch. Thank god I had my sitting pad because otherwise my back would have been covered with black ash from the charred remains of the forest. After lunch we finally made it to green woods and got our first view of Half Dome. It would stay in our view for the end of our hike. Since we had dropped now to a much lower elevation, the temperature had increased and it became much hotter than the latter portion of our hike. After 9.8 miles we made it to Little Yosemite Valley campground. This campground was for permit holders only and as such, we were checked for our permits for the first time. This camp site had compost outhouses, a large river (the Merced river) and LOTS of flat camp sites. I'm sure they could easily fit over 3 dozen people here. I was exhausted and had to rest about 30 minutes before setting up my tent. We then swam in the river (or at least Amie did), rinsed out some clothes, filtered some water and drank the last package of my lemonade. I did a quick dinner and was so tired that I just laid back in my tent about 7pm in my shorts and no shirt. I woke up about 4am realizing that I never prepped for bed. Tomorrow is our last day and it is truly all downhill!