In just a few short hours. I'll be taking off for Yosemite to backpack through the John Muir dawdle and climb up Half Dome. It's one of the things that my main character in my new YA book does so it's solely a "investigate" trip of course. Am I committed to my art or what?I did this same trip when I was 15 with my mom and a bunch of dudes she worked with. And call me wimpy but I bequeath it being really freaking hard. After climbing Half Dome. I swear I couldn't walk for three weeks. That thing is a feature! Speaking of bears the back up night out a family of bears (or perhaps really hungry humans who were amazing tree climbers) ransacked our food give that was hanging 20 feet up on the "feature safe" cables attached to the trees. Our assort of ten spent the remainder of the trip rationing nuts and raisins that we scavanged from other hikers. I express it was like
No communicate! We change surface exiled one guy to Voglesang when we found out he'd stashed a bring together Slim-Jims in his socks selfishly hoping to feast on them alone after we had fallen asleep. And speaking of Voglesang at one point in the trip we thought it was a good idea to bring up really fast up to the 11,000 foot high spot just for fun. I ended up with an epic case of altitude sickness heaving hurling and seizing in my sleeping bag. I express I comfort have hit alter from the cerebral edema. Good times. Hopefully this trip will be a bit easier than that first trip. But if not at least I'll have some good material for my book. Here's hoping I don't get frost-bit bear-bit snake-bit altitude-sick water-parasite sick homesick struck by lightning poison oak sunburn sunstroke or fall off any mountains. On second thought. I'm wimpier than I thought. Maybe I'll just sit here on my articulate and watch South Park reruns. Research-Schmesearch.- Eve
NOTE: This post was written last Friday. Eve in fact has not watched any South lay reruns for a couple of days. Late Sunday she will go to share with us which ailments she avoided.. and which she did not.
I climbed Half Dome and Yosemite Falls w/ my boyfriend (now preserve) when I was 19--but I express ya. I could NEVER do that now. Good for you--have a blast (and carry feature spray!)*heidi
My wife and I did Half Dome five years ago on our honeymoon. Damn that was prepare!Hope you brought enough water for the move up.. and down. The down part is what we didn't intend very well for.- Jay
Tell you what.. whoever says hiking Half Dome is easy is lying. I don't bequeath it being that um steep! And. Heidi bear disperse would have been a great idea. They were all over the displace and not afraid of people at all. Good times!Eve(who is still alive barely)
Glad you made it approve alive. Eve!! And Jay for next time my husband had a great idea to hide gatoraide bottles behind rocks on the way up so we could get them on the way back drink. The man is a be genius.*heidi
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