On Monday I climbed Half Dome in Yosemite National Park with some good friends, making it the second, and last, time for me. In order to prepare for this god awful lovely 16-mile hike that ends up in an almost 5,000 foot gain I reviewed this book:
When we arrived here:
Yosemite National Park- Our cabin |
I made some significant progress on this:
I still can't figure out the tabs |
After I hiked to this:
I climbed up these:
To see this:
Oh crap. We still have to go all the way back down. |
I saw this on an older woman's baseball cap on the climb down (she was going up) and had to give her some encouragement and a compliment for being both literary and brave:
[source] |
I then talked for a full twenty seconds about this:
She had obviously enjoyed it... [source] |
but had to tell her (nicely) I'd have to Google more information so I could stop facing the ground holding myself up with my arms worrying that I might die.
The end.
I've never had any desire to climb anything until now. That looks so hard, but so worth it. Kudos to you!*
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