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By the time we reach the town of El Portal , a couple of kilometres away from one of the four entrances on Yosemite 's western side , it is early afternoon and still raining , with the cold and damp stuff cascading from the rocks jutting from the saturated green-felt hills and bouncing off the road . As I follow its route , I envision the landscape as it must have looked 35 million years ago : a long lake lapped at the edges of the hills , fed by a stream that ran almost parallel to Four-mile Creek . The treeless dirt road stretched into the barren hills , reaching the nearest town seven miles away where he would catch the bus to Tijuana . In addition to walks in the surrounding hills , time was spent around the village getting to know the 40 or so vegetarians and vegans from all over Europe , as well as the young Bosnian children whose company was a pleasure and a reminder of the atrocities that our species is capable of perpetrating on its own kind as well as on other creatures . Use a metal garden rake to even out any hills or dips .