Photo Fun!!!
Faithful readers (are there really any of you out there?), might remember a while ago when I mentioned a rather mundane rafting trip. Well, the photos finally came back from the Edison digitizing plant and here's a view down the calm stream we were on.
Psych!
The real river we went down was this one:
Double psych!
Those are really waterfalls from my trip to Yosemite two weeks ago. My roommate Andrew and I decided to make a blitzkrieg journey up the mist trail to the top of half dome (8 miles/4800' up and back down) in one day. It ended up being a 20 hour day starting from Berkeley at 3:30AM, a long but fun-packed trip. Now you too can ride along with me from the comfort of your home or office (don't tell the boss) on a photo journey to the tippy-top.
The so-called mist trail bore the feared Shamu© warning, "You will get wet!"
The trail winds up past two waterfalls (one of them you saw at the begining) and in June you will definitely get drenched as you hike past and up the ledges to the top of the second. If you look back, you might think, "Hey we're kinda getting high aren't we? But its the good kind, not the kind the pushers are always trying to sell me!"
From the top of the waterfalls the trail turns and begins the real ascent of half dome. After hiking a ways down the trail, the peak comes into view.
(Follow that line of ants to the cables you have to scramble up for the final 300')
This is where the dangers truly begin. You must do battle with the rattlesnake guarding the trail to prove that you are brave (and the stone can not break you, the knife can not cut you, the arrow can not pierce you, paper, rock, scissors).
Don't let all the danger distract you though, you've still gotta take time to stop and smell the roses.
Finally, after much struggling you reach the top, where you can taunt Nature for besting her once again. Look at me taunt!
But don't count your chickadees yet, you've still gotta get down and there's a fast way and a slow way. Warning: fast way not for the faint of heart or those suffering from Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window Disease.
Psych!The real river we went down was this one:
Double psych!Those are really waterfalls from my trip to Yosemite two weeks ago. My roommate Andrew and I decided to make a blitzkrieg journey up the mist trail to the top of half dome (8 miles/4800' up and back down) in one day. It ended up being a 20 hour day starting from Berkeley at 3:30AM, a long but fun-packed trip. Now you too can ride along with me from the comfort of your home or office (don't tell the boss) on a photo journey to the tippy-top.
The so-called mist trail bore the feared Shamu© warning, "You will get wet!"
The trail winds up past two waterfalls (one of them you saw at the begining) and in June you will definitely get drenched as you hike past and up the ledges to the top of the second. If you look back, you might think, "Hey we're kinda getting high aren't we? But its the good kind, not the kind the pushers are always trying to sell me!"
From the top of the waterfalls the trail turns and begins the real ascent of half dome. After hiking a ways down the trail, the peak comes into view.
(Follow that line of ants to the cables you have to scramble up for the final 300')This is where the dangers truly begin. You must do battle with the rattlesnake guarding the trail to prove that you are brave (and the stone can not break you, the knife can not cut you, the arrow can not pierce you, paper, rock, scissors).
Don't let all the danger distract you though, you've still gotta take time to stop and smell the roses.
Finally, after much struggling you reach the top, where you can taunt Nature for besting her once again. Look at me taunt!
But don't count your chickadees yet, you've still gotta get down and there's a fast way and a slow way. Warning: fast way not for the faint of heart or those suffering from Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window Disease.
posted by Bmax @ 11:06 PM
2 Comments:
At 8:47 PM,
Anonymous said…
You know it baby!
You're crazy to stand on that ledge, though, brother!
At 7:37 PM,
Anonymous said…
dear brian,
hiking halfdome was the worst day of my life.
love,
christina
aka girlfriend of david
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