21 Feb 2023
This is the only tour for the mountain not starting at the crack of dawn.. well worth it!
We looked a long time for something like this because we did not want to spend the entire day at the park, we only had a half day available to do a couple of the main things and this was perfect.
Joe was great, he picked us up a little early due to the park closing time being changed, and was able to take us on the other trail at request but I think the one listed in this tour would be amazing as well! He was also considerate to talk with us about getting the most out of the time we had, and came along on the hike not just leaving us to the other guides.
He told us some interesting things, the drive was about 1.5 hours each way which was fine though the van is a bit old and struggled slowly up the hill at points.
It was a very nice afternoon, because of the time we missed all of the huge tour buses and had the trail almost completely to ourselves, highly recommend!