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How To Hike Yosemite's Half Dome Safely While Half Dome is not one ... and even a mountaineering harness with a carabiner so that you can clip yourself to the cables. As one Redditor puts it ...
There are also stellar views of Mount Watkins. The hike begins at Tenaya Bridge. Half Dome lies at the eastern end of the narrow, steep-walled seven-mile-long canyon that the Miwok Indians called ...
A group of friends were forced to take shelter in a cave during a storm at the top of Yosemite’s most notorious hike -- Half Dome. Two of them were even struck by lightning, but miraculously ...
Half Dome cables are back up for the 2019 summer hiking season. Yosemite National Park made the announcement on social media Thursday by posting a photo of a helicopter hovering over the granite ...
In my years of entering the lottery, I’ve never won a permit to the Half Dome cables, and the same goes for some other iconic hikes around the country. Are there other trails I should hike instead?
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - A bucket list hike atop Yosemite National Park's iconic Half Dome turned deadly for a 20-year-old Arizona State University student after a powerful thunderstorm ...
In 2012, the park service began limiting the number of people allowed to hike Half Dome each day by requiring day-hike permits. Only 225 people are allowed on the trail beyond the base of the ...
Granite slabs reflect the sunlight, and Half Dome, isolated at the far end of the valley, commands the view. My favorite time to hike in Yosemite is during the peak of winter, January and February ...
Last month, 20-year-old Grace Rohloff slipped and died descending from the summit of Half Dome in Yosemite National ... for the final ascent and initial hike down, but deaths caused by falls ...