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| Message: | As it was promised, it was a looooong way ahead for us. We were at the trail head at around 7:30 AM, which was a little late. The morning view from the car window was refreshing, especially with the window down.  Spoiled by hikers, the fat squirrels were everywhere.  The Mist Trail along the Vernal Falls was good for a morning shower.   Nevada Falls and Liberty Cap.   After cool forest trails and hot exposed switchbacks, Half Dome showed itself. Still a long way ahead.  After the body-wreaking subdome, we saw we hoped we wouldn't see: a line at the cables' base.  Of course, we got stuck in traffic. It was a perfect plan: hike on Friday (not the crowdy Saturday) and srart early. Well, we didn't start early. Looks like everybody planned the same and did the same. All in all, we wasted about half an hour there.  Next the cables there are a pile of old gloves, taken off the dead hikers. But we had our own; I don't like those brown stains. The granite surface is far from vertical, but still too hard to climb without any accessories like ropes, cables  I had a canvas belt, a daisy chain and a couple carabiners - just in case. Didn't use them though. The most import things are good soles,  The top, finally. With so many people trying to climb the Half Dome every year, I would expect to find here a taco truck, a starbucks tent or gay-pollsters with dildobottles.  Clouds Rest, the neighborhood bully.  It's more level on the top then seems to be from afar. There must be the burial places for meerkats or the gaypollsters with... (see above).  Having sat on the tip, I could say: it's not the most relaxing place in the world.  One could see the inviting abyss right through the holes between the boulders.  However, I didn't feel like going down. At least not that fast. The valley floor is almost 5,000 ft below.  North Dome, which me and Anna climbed 12 (twelve!) years ago.  The ran into traffic on the way back too. Good thing, I had time to snap some photos on the still-horizontal surface. Only fockheads do that on the more vertical surface, hence the line. Or they just start trembling and sliding. That also contributes to the delays, ya know. Or speed-ups.  The last photos before going down Further down - the subdome, which is *almost* as steep, but without all these crutches-for-whipper-snappers.  Here is the subdome from the other side.  From the valley floor, everything looks plain and simple.  It was watersports funfunfun the next day:    Couldn't hold on to the tube in the end. Full speed motorboat with my sadistic friend at the helm doing sharp turns made my legs blue, black and yellow with bruises. Still hurts.  . . . .
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