So this was a pretty amazing trip, well at least the two and a half days we spent there. We woke up about 7:30 am after staying out at an all night party not getting in until 3:45 am. Let me tell you, yikes. But after some strong coffee and a bagel I was ready to hit the road. Then once on the 101 North, I totaly skipped the exit to get to I-5. About an hour or so to late I realized this and had to trek my way back through small highways. This extended our drive for about an extra hour and a half. We show up to Yosemite Park, holy crap is that place gigantic. It litteraly took hours to drive through it. We later realized that Yosemite National Park is about the same size as the state of Rhode Island. We get in late, find our tent, which was excellent, light our candle and fire and slip into bed. We are at this point at about 10,000 feet high and its pretty cold up there. We wake up early the next morning to hike the epic Half Dome. It was a bit of a late start after getting breakfast, and the one hour drive just to the trail head. We figured it would be ok. Half Dome is a 16.5 maybe a 17.5 mile round trip hike. The last three miles you hike an additional 3500 feet in elevation to get to the climing stairs. At the 5.5 mile marker we ran out of water in the hottest part of the day, only to realize that this is typically a 12 hour stay the night kind of hike. We were forced to turn back because of fluids and darkness creeping in. Silly me being a photographer I decided to bring a good amount of my gear with me thinking I was going to get some amazing images from the trip, well a 70 pound pack with two camera's, lenses, and a tripod was a bad choice. I was so sore. Also disappointed from not being able to gaze out upon Yosemite Valley. It is probably on the of the most amazing places I've ever been in my life based on natural beauty alone. We saw bears, rattle snakes feet from our feet on the trail, drank from a raging river, soaked our feet in a ice cold stream that lead to an amazing waterfall, and witnessed a climber 5,000 feet above us reach hit pinacle in darkness only to let out a scream and we had a flashlight conversation with the rest of the climbers. Amazing. Here are a few photo's of this leg of the journey. This trip will definitely be the first of many.
Here was our awesome tent.
Our humble abode.
This would have been us at the top of Half Dome.
Our bear friend.
Here's a nice little dude for our friend Shaddy.
Half dome on the left, the waterfall we crossed on the right.
The amazing Yosemite Valley with Half Dome in the distance.
Here are those climbers camping on the side of a mountain...my next adventure.
A close up of the climbers.
Some giant Sequoia's.
A tribute to Ansel Adams.
3 comments:
DUDE!!!!! AWESOME AND AWESOME!!! My favorites are: Golden gate bridge- both, ugly bum, and, the bear shot- how you are still alive I will never know... unless you tell me.
Ok changed my mind, I like the night bridge shot better... ;)
Very nice work, I have a Blog too now, check it out, I looking at getting an office/studio in LA for Digital Capture Systems.
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