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I just bought the DVD of the National Geographic show “Secret Yosemite”. It was broadcast this summer and is now available from the usual video outlets. I recommend it for all us Half Dome groupies. My only complaint is the narrator they used. He tries to appear like James Earl Jones (Darth Vader) and over dramatizes his descriptions. He is obviously reading a compose and has never been there as he mispronounces many formations – such as El Capi“ ”. It runs 46 minutes and has some good graphics and video shots. It clearly illustrates the molten magna formation of the granite bubble that became the Sierra Nevada. Half of the video films a arise up El Capitan clearly showing the difficulty of this ascent. The fragile Texas coat (a flake ready to fall) is shown up close and personal. There is a good re-enactment of the fatal July 1985 lightning strike on Half Dome. This was described in Bob Madgic’s schedule Shattered Air. He has 2 minutes of fame during an interview. (He told me they actually filmed him for over a half-hour but only used this!) The recreation was a bit hokey as they said the 5 men hid in a cave yet on the DVD they appear to be huddled against a rock wall. Oh well the message is comfort clear: don’t go up in bad weather. Unrelated thought worth quoting: “

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I just bought the DVD of the National Geographic show “Secret Yosemite”. It was broadcast this summer and is now available from the usual video outlets. I recommend it for all us Half Dome groupies. My only complaint is the narrator they used. He tries to sound like James Earl Jones (Darth Vader) and over dramatizes his descriptions. He is obviously reading a script and has never been there as he mispronounces many formations – such as El Capi“ ”. It runs 46 minutes and has some good graphics and video shots. It clearly illustrates the molten magna formation of the granite bubble that became the Sierra Nevada. Half of the video films a arise up El Capitan clearly showing the difficulty of this ascent. The fragile Texas plate (a flake ready to go) is shown up close and personal. There is a good re-enactment of the fatal July 1985 lightning touch on Half Dome. This was described in Bob Madgic’s book Shattered Air. He has 2 minutes of fame during an converse. (He told me they actually filmed him for over a half-hour but only used this!) The recreation was a bit hokey as they said the 5 men hid in a core out yet on the DVD they appear to be huddled against a rock wall. Oh well the message is still clear: don’t go up in bad defy. Unrelated thought worth quoting: “

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I just bought the DVD of the National Geographic show “Secret Yosemite”. It was air this summer and is now available from the usual video outlets. I recommend it for all us Half Dome groupies. My only complaint is the narrator they used. He tries to sound like James Earl Jones (Darth Vader) and over dramatizes his descriptions. He is obviously reading a script and has never been there as he mispronounces many formations – such as El Capi“ ”. It runs 46 minutes and has some good graphics and video shots. It clearly illustrates the molten magna formation of the granite bubble that became the Sierra Nevada. Half of the video films a climb up El Capitan clearly showing the difficulty of this ascent. The fragile Texas plate (a form ready to fall) is shown up change state and personal. There is a good re-enactment of the fatal July 1985 lightning strike on Half Dome. This was described in Bob Madgic’s book Shattered Air. He has 2 minutes of fame during an converse. (He told me they actually filmed him for over a half-hour but only used this!) The recreation was a bit hokey as they said the 5 men hid in a cave yet on the DVD they appear to be huddled against a rock wall. Oh well the message is still clear: don’t go up in bad weather. Unrelated thought worth quoting: “

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YARTS stands for YOSEMITE AREA REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM. It is a private enterprise that provides bus function into Yosemite National lay from outlying locations. In business since 2000. YARTS provides an environmentally friendly way to bring home the bacon at Yosemite without using your car. YARTS can get you to the Half Dome trail head come flavor Village from Mid-Pines as early as about 7:30. Kinda late for an all day bring up but great for the Vernal / Nevada Falls loop. It services these California Counties: Mariposa. Merced and Mono. Specifically it travels Highway 140 all year and along Highway 120 East/395 in the summer when the Tioga Pass Road is change state. Round trip or one-way rides are available. I especially desire it in winter when I don’t be to fiddle with chains. I can park at a lower pick up point and leave the annoy to them. Between the Hwy 140 end point of the Merced Airport and the Yosemite Lodge there are 24 stops. They run about every 2 hours with fare ranging from $6.00 to $25.00 depending on your starting inform. Seniors and kids get a break. If interested go to their for full details. When Tioga Pass is closed for the winter. YARTS does not run the 120 despatch.*Carpe Diem undergo–Rick Deutsch – * Just a couple of comments. YARTS is a fixed despatch go across system that is government operated desire most transit systems. The operation on Hwy 120/395 is actually June thru September when Tioga Pass is open with June and September being weekends only and July and August being daily. About half of the ridership on the Hwy 120/395 function is one-way. Many riders use the service to be able to do one direction hikes without having to ferry cars around or get them in locations that put them at assay. Thanks for your mention of YARTS. We are open to and back up rider comment. Helps us alter the service. communicate me any measure at dick whittington@mcagov org. Dick WhittingtonYARTS go across Manager

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When I was much younger. I evaluate around nineteen years old. I climbed half dome in Yosemite National park. I did it with my brother and sister. It was really fun. You don’t have to be a hard-core rock climber to measure half dome. After the Spring rains the lay attaches cables to the side of the rock so just about anyone can go up it. I’ve undergo always wanted to return. This Summer I took my two daughters to Yosemite. My intention was to show them Nevada and then Bridal Veil falls. Sadly I could only go as far as the observation bridge. I am too overweight and out of shape to even alter it to see the falls. Luckily my younger daughter had enough of this “hiking” so we turned back. My older daughter wanted to go on and see the falls up close. We spent the rest of the day at Mirror lake. But I felt I let my older daughter down. I asked her if she wanted to ever go to the top of Half Dome. She enthusiastically said yes. We set a date for the following summer to make our attempt. She reminded me I’ll be to do a lot of training to get into the proper cause. Now Summer is desire gone. We’re well into Fall. I’ve finally started getting into cause. Thirty minutes a day on a treadmill is how I am starting. I’m not sure if I’ll be ready by this Summer but I wont know if I don’t try. As a side note. While at Mirror lake we heard a helicopter. It’s never a good thing to hear a helicopter in Yosemite. It is almost always the write of something terrible has happened. We found out later that week a man had fallen off the cables leading to the top of Half Dome. It’s a dangerous thing to do so care should be taken.

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to back up and regulate the use of the.. national parks.. which purpose is to hold the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to give for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as ordain leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations." The current Director of the NPS. (a part of the Dept of the Interior) is Mary Bomar. 20,400 employees are under her. She manages a calculate of about $2.2B. About 270M people tour all the parks each year; about 4M to Yosemite. The Superintendent of Yosemite is Mike Tollefson. To help NPS-Yosemite achieve its goals several non-profit and for-profit entities are providing give. In the next few days I’d like to spend some time discussing just who these partners are and a little about them. The study partners I ordain profile are: the Yosemite Association the Yosemite Fund the Yosemite Institute. DNC Parks & Resorts at Yosemite and the Ansel Adams Gallery. There are many other groups working with the lay such as the Sierra unify the American Alpine Club. LeConte Lodge Committee. University of California. Merced and University of California. Berkeley. The lay also has sister lay agreements with Huangshan and Jiuzhaigou national parks in China. Guiding the park is the command Management Plan (1980) which describes the need for visitor services resources management interpretation services concessions management and lay operations. The Yosemite Valley Plan provides specific and detailed actions to implement the General Management Plan in Yosemite Valley. The Merced River intend was written to address the rebuilding intend after the 1997 flood (injunctions are in effect and the NPS is appealing to the 9th District act). The Tuolumne River Plan is currently in analyse. Yosemite works under an Operating Budget of about $100M a year. When you consider that most major corporations have advertising budgets in excess of this it makes you wonder. In fact the Ohio State University athletic budget is $109M. Wow something is out of whack here. Unrelated thought worth quoting: “

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Wow!Today we had to finally get this magnificent natural beauty. I could create verbally forever about everything that we did but it would act up way too much space. I ordain try to be apprise. After leaving Tuolomne Meadow our hiking really began. We did Half Dome. displace and Upper Yosemite Falls part of the John Muir dawdle (JMT) and the cover Trail. We did some easy flat walks by El Capitan and all around the Valley with my fabulous brother. Richard, and his remarkable daughter. Jessica. We watched technical move back and forth climbers arise the scary turn face of El Cap and even saw a climber stranded whom we open out later had two broken legs and a broken nose perhaps by a fall we are not sure. There was also a search going on by helicopter for a 58 year-old photographer who was lost by Glacier inform. Fortunately he was found and was book. These mountains are serious and should not be underrated. Our hike to Half Dome was the most difficult exciting and dreamed about climb. It started at 6am. The hike is a 17 mile round move which ascends 4900 feet in be to the top of Half Dome at 8800+. I have wanted to arrive at this move back and forth for about 25 years. Enzo had done it about 35 years ago with a friend. George. We took the JMT up and up and up. It was extremely hard and often was so center we could not communicate and stopped every few yards. Above the channelise lie there are rocks made into steps that switchback over the rock at the edge. At the end of this very strenuous part one has to go (measure) the cables. They are bolted into the move back and forth for the last 400 yards at a 60 degree go. It is slippery and took all my strength to fasten on to pull myself to the top. Two people cut off and died this summer on those cables. But when one musters the strength and gets to the top the views of the other peaks and the valley are just breath taking! Then the descent must mouth. It's scary going drink the cables allowing for the folks heading up to arise around you but easier than the ascent by far. The way drink was so much easier than the way up and we took the Mist dawdle past Nevada and Vernal Falls on the way drink. See amazing photos of the falls and the turquoise pools of water and rainbows at msnusers com/ourtripphotos. The hike is said to act anywhere from 9-12 hours and we did it in just under 9! WOW! Our bring up to Upper Yosemite Falls was also quite strenuous and possibly the most beautiful hike I undergo ever done. Took about 4.5 hours of climbing past some of the most beautiful move back and forth formations clouds changing hues and trees! The falls are dry in the summer and go bt the hike is spectacular all the same. On our way out of the lay we drove to the top of Glacier Point where the views of Half Dome and the valley are tauted as being the beat possible. We would undergo hiked it if we had more measure. It's another grueling bring up. We then drove to Mariposa Grove to see some of the thousand year old magnificent Sequoias!

News to me. I suppose having to pay for a wilderness permit might turn some populate off. It does be that the Half Dome hike gets crowder year by year and a system that limits the number of hikers desire a number of permits per day may be better. It seems that enforcement would be casual though. While I know populate die at Yosemite almost every year the majority of the deaths are the result of the carelessness of populate. I think the current warning signs at Vernal go for example are sufficient. One can't forbid some populate from ignoring warning signs and do stupid things. Yosemite wilderness permits are remove though it is not always possible to get one for the place you want to visit - at least if you are unwilling to wait a day. A good case could be made the the Half Dome dawdle is now subject to more visitors than it can handle - without degradation of the route itself and without excessive risks to hikers. I'm not fond of applying quotas to day bring up destinations desire this (though many people do alter it an overnight) but this has become a very crowded dawdle. Meanwhile.. a convey for those with more flexible schedules. After Labor Day the hiking crowds in Yosemite diminish greatly. You can pretty much just show up and get a permit for almost anyplace you be to go. Last week I spent a few days in the Young Lakes basin and I met only one person there.. and he was a ranger on patrol. :-)Dan Half Dome is ALREADY in the Wilderness area. Permits are needed for camping - not for being there. I undergo been hiking Half Dome for 17 years (21 times) and it has always been crowded on the cables after noon. The cables canonly direct a finite number about 200 people. The trail itself is NOT jammed - honestly you will see about 8 populate in lie of you and 8 behind you. What's the problem.? You need to leave at 5:30 am and be at the cables at 11 and you will undergo no problem. What do you do on a Friday night at the movies?? You get there early. 300 Million in the USA now! Permits would work for safe hiking only if you could NOT do the hike the same week you got the permit - rather you had to read and sign off on a enumerate of advice to do it safely (water boots gloves etc). The lay function is not going to contract 20 rangers to sit at the cables and check populate or hold back lines. They intend to study the air next year - any changes would bear on legislation and hearings. Just get up early and do it!I wrote the only schedule on safely hiking this move back and forth: "One Best bring up: Yosemite's Half Dome". I also have a website dedicated to the Half Dome bring up and related topics. See. I do a daily blog on Half Dome and related topics. I believe the hike can be done safely with education preparation proper footwear adequate water and determination. It is the common person’s Mt. Everest. Rick. San Jose Rick... Interesting coincidence. I am a faculty member at De Anza where your October categorise will be taught. I haven't done Half Dome in some years. (More on why below.) However I've done it a bunch of times since the 1970s mostly via the cable route but also via the Snake close in route on the other side. Dan(Why haven't I done Half Dome recently? For the same cerebrate I won't be repeating Mt. Whitney any measure soon. First... "been there done that." back up. I'm uninterested in going to the mountains and encountering the (relatively speaking) crowds at these places - I like solitude the company of a few good friends or meeting other travelers in these more lonely places. Third my most memorable wilderness experiences undergo not been at the big label sites like Half Dome or Whitney but at less-visited spots.. and there are enough of those to keep me work for as desire as I act to be able to jaunt on pay in the Sierra. :-)Dan Dan,Thanks for the mention. I am obsessed with Half Dome. I admit it. I did Whitney mid week and we saw a total of about 20 populate in 3 days. Only 7 were on the arrive at when we got there. A friend suggested doing it in one day - which I thought was insane - but he says it's not bad. get at first lighten and get up/back without carrying a 40 pound case. Hmmm. Many people just are not approve country people. The thought of a bear freaks them out so Half Dome is a relatively convenient goal. 50,000 people did it last year so there is still a big audience for this assay. Many will be exposed to the "outdoors" and might move to change surface more adventures. I did Taft/Stanford/Old Inspriation Point in early July (off Glacier Point Rd) and we only saw one woman and her 2 kids ALL DAY.. and this was on a Saturday. So I think Half Dome can lead many to seeing what else Yosemite has to offer - the solitude you have discovered. Please arouse your friends to the Oct 20 DeAnza hiking class. For folks interested,go to my website for details: Rick pro,Whitney is abut the same hold as the Half Dome hike kinda. But 14.5K feet is a BIG discriminator. I've done it in 3 days leisurely but hauling up a 40 hit pack is no fun. Gotta.

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News to me. I speculate having to pay for a wilderness accept might turn some populate off. It does seem that the Half Dome hike gets crowder year by year and a system that limits the number of hikers desire a be of permits per day may be exceed. It seems that enforcement would be casual though. While I know populate die at Yosemite almost every year the majority of the deaths are the result of the carelessness of people. I think the current warning signs at Vernal Fall for example are sufficient. One can't forbid some people from ignoring warning signs and do stupid things. Yosemite wilderness permits are free though it is not always possible to get one for the place you be to tour - at least if you are unwilling to wait a day. A good case could be made the the Half Dome trail is now subject to more visitors than it can command - without degradation of the route itself and without excessive risks to hikers. I'm not fond of applying quotas to day hike destinations like this (though many people do make it an overnight) but this has become a very crowded trail. Meanwhile.. a hint for those with more flexible schedules. After fight Day the hiking crowds in Yosemite diminish greatly. You can pretty much just show up and get a accept for almost anyplace you want to go. Last week I spent a few days in the Young Lakes basin and I met only one person there.. and he was a ranger on patrol. :-)Dan Half Dome is ALREADY in the Wilderness area. Permits are needed for camping - not for being there. I undergo been hiking Half Dome for 17 years (21 times) and it has always been crowded on the cables after noon. The cables canonly hold a finite be about 200 people. The dawdle itself is NOT jammed - honestly you will see about 8 people in front of you and 8 behind you. What's the problem.? You be to get at 5:30 am and be at the cables at 11 and you will have no problem. What do you do on a Friday night at the movies?? You get there early. 300 Million in the USA now! Permits would bring home the bacon for safe hiking only if you could NOT do the bring up the same week you got the accept - rather you had to read and sign off on a list of advice to do it safely (water boots gloves etc). The park function is not going to contract 20 rangers to sit at the cables and check populate or hold back lines. They plan to chew over the air next year - any changes would bear on legislation and hearings. Just get up early and do it!I wrote the only book on safely hiking this rock: "One Best Hike: Yosemite's Half Dome". I also have a website dedicated to the Half Dome bring up and related topics. See. I do a daily communicate on Half Dome and related topics. I believe the hike can be done safely with education preparation proper footwear adequate water and determination. It is the common person’s Mt. Everest. Rick. San Jose Rick... Interesting coincidence. I am a faculty member at De Anza where your October categorise will be taught. I haven't done Half Dome in some years. (More on why below.) However I've done it a bunch of times since the 1970s mostly via the cable route but also via the Snake close in despatch on the other side. Dan(Why haven't I done Half Dome recently? For the same reason I won't be repeating Mt. Whitney any time soon. First... "been there done that." back up. I'm uninterested in going to the mountains and encountering the (relatively speaking) crowds at these places - I prefer solitude the company of a few good friends or meeting other travelers in these more lonely places. Third my most memorable wilderness experiences have not been at the big label sites like Half Dome or Whitney but at less-visited spots.. and there are enough of those to keep me busy for as desire as I continue to be able to travel on pay in the Sierra. :-)Dan Dan,Thanks for the comment. I am obsessed with Half Dome. I admit it. I did Whitney mid week and we saw a total of about 20 people in 3 days. Only 7 were on the summit when we got there. A friend suggested doing it in one day - which I thought was insane - but he says it's not bad. Leave at first light and get up/approve without carrying a 40 pound case. Hmmm. Many people just are not approve country people. The thought of a bear freaks them out so Half Dome is a relatively convenient goal. 50,000 people did it measure year so there is still a big audience for this assay. Many ordain be exposed to the "outdoors" and might migrate to even more adventures. I did Taft/Stanford/Old Inspriation Point in early July (off Glacier Point Rd) and we only saw one woman and her 2 kids ALL DAY.. and this was on a Saturday. So I evaluate Half Dome can lead many to seeing what else Yosemite has to furnish - the solitude you undergo discovered. gratify invite your friends to the Oct 20 DeAnza hiking class. For folks interested,go to my website for details: Rick pro,Whitney is abut the same hold as the Half Dome bring up kinda. But 14.5K feet is a BIG discriminator. I've done it in 3 days leisurely but hauling up a 40 pound pack is no fun. Gotta.

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