Half Dome Hike

A beautiful day for a hike in Yosemite. The hikers left San Jose at 3am, Mark at the wheel but he and Jeff spent the day fishing. I think, they started hiking around 6:30am

Evan and Andy


The adventurous hikers -
Eric, friend Kyle, Claudia, Joslyn, Andy, Evan

Vernal Falls

See the people? They're tiny, walking the path on the left

"Yikes!"

Half Dome - you can see the line of people going up and down the cables - it looks like a trail of ants

A zoom of the above picture

Some of what you can see while hiking up

The cables...



Evan and Andy ready to go up

Jos and Andy

"See - we're smiling. It's fun..."

Claudia with her big "I love a challenge!" smile

It helps to wear gloves - there is often a pile of them for anyone to use.

Hand over hand...

Evan acting too scared to move - but that really happens to people.

The top!

They made it!

Views of the valley.


Someone yelled "wave" so Eric snapped a picture too.

That's Eric out there.

"Stay away from the edge..."

"Evan! Stay Away..."

"Oh Man..."

Why do people do stuff like this?

We hear it is called "King's Chair" Yeah - for an unpopular king.(don't know him)

Waiting to go back down the cables.

Still waiting. What's that guy doing outside the cables?! (don't know him)

Down, down, down...

Evan strayed from the path and decided he'd slide part of the way down.

He should have stayed on the path.
The hikers got back to San Jose around 11pm. Sounds like they did the hike in 12 hours but that is including a couple hours wait at the cables...
Everyone still walks and talks so guess they all survived.
Who wants to go next time?
(Not Evan or Eric...at least not yet. It's probably a little like child birth...)