Half Dome vs. Grand Canyon

Okydoky, Half Dome was so much easier than Grand Canyon. I'm going to abbreviate so bare with me. GC was longer and we were going uphill at the end. HD was shorter and we went up to begin with. HD was steeper and harder in the fact that it was a climb most of the way and not a hike. But all in all GC took a bigger toll on me then HD did. The hardest part of HD were the cables and that was the hardest place mentally. I was telling my uncle it's not that you couldn't die in the GC but when you're standing on this big rock with nothing but your hands gripping the cables and keeping your footing keeping you from a fall to your death, in that perspective it was harder than GC. But hey, I'm alive and so is the rest of the group that went, so we're all good!! Here are some highlights of the trip :)

5 sandwiches, cheez-its, M&M's, peanut M&M's, chip's ahoy, apple, vanilla wafers, fig newtons, pita chips, trail mix, assorted chocolate bars...that consisted of our lunch for the hike!  

We left camp at this time and started the hike at 5:51am

Vernal Falls on the Mist trail

Nevada Falls farther up

4.5 miles left!!

Half Dome!

The cables leading up to the dome. The cables are the line on the left

View of Yosemite Valley from on top. That's Me and Jeffery, my cousin, out on that rock

Our group. We did it!!!

Now here's some of the terrain we had to traverse to get to this lovely piece of granite!

Stairs heading to the top of Vernal Falls and they were very very wet

Rock swtich-backs

Part of Little Yosemite Valley

I love this picture!!

Last rock switch-backs heading to the first dome of Half Dome

Rock face of the first dome