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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
North of the Owyhees
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Jun 16, 2009 - 11:16am PT
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Folks that need their Mommy should stay with her.
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Jun 16, 2009 - 09:20pm PT
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It was June in 1966, I was preparing to do an ascent of Half Dome's NW face and I hiked my family into Little Yosemite to cache some hardware for the climb. I figured as long as we were all in there why not climb the cables.
So the next morning my two daughters (age 12 and 9), my son (age 8), and my wife (a non-climber) started up the cable route. I tied all my kids together with 1-inch tubular nylon and anchored them to me for the ascent and descent which went went with no hesitancy nor problem.
Last year, after climbing the Snake Dike, I was descending the cable route with the cables down. Forty-two years had passed and I found myself asking, "What were you thinking?"
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10b4me
Ice climber
Rustys Saloon
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Jun 19, 2009 - 12:20pm PT
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So of course we can hike to Half Dome after lunch and still have pizza at Curry by 5 pm. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa and he sells cold water and popsicles at the top. Did we mention the escalator ride that takes you back down to your tent when you are done
tent?
most of these people are staying in an RV or motel room
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
North of the Owyhees
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Jun 20, 2009 - 03:48pm PT
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Sign at the bottom......We are not here to nursemaid you...If you fall, you DIE! Have a nice day.
Easy as pie. When they cry, say, shut the Hell up.(overdue, anyway)
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jun 20, 2009 - 03:57pm PT
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Don wittily reported on his family's ascent of the cables, in context of attempts and an eventual ascent of the northwest face, in "Half Dome Capers", which is in Roper's "Ordeal by Piton".
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Domingo
Trad climber
El Portal, CA
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Jun 20, 2009 - 10:43pm PT
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"while one pair decides real shoes or boots are not important while making the vertical trek"
...those are Chacos. I've sent .10s in my Chacos, as well as the Grand Teton and a few other august summits (with socks, yes, but with Chacos nonetheless).
Was that a reporter deciding what "real shoes" are?
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Domingo
Trad climber
El Portal, CA
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Jun 20, 2009 - 11:28pm PT
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;) they were sport... big overhung jugs.
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
North of the Owyhees
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Jun 21, 2009 - 12:45am PT
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I saw Johnny Rock do the same thing in Tevas.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Oct 15, 2009 - 01:00pm PT
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Reviving an old thread. But it turns out that the NPS did a study on hikers and the Half Dome cables in 2008 "to gauge visitor exposure to information, awareness of safety issues, perceptions of crowding, perceptions of risk, and other factors that influence a safe and enjoyable visit."
http://www.nps.gov/yose/naturescience/half-dome-cables.htm
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mason805
Trad climber
East Bay, CA
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Oct 15, 2009 - 01:05pm PT
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The OP is incorrect regarding the last death.
As far as I know there have been multiple deaths on the cables since this last summer.
One that I remember was on June 14th as I was in the park that day.
Edit:
I see that the OP was on June 13th.
I guess it was the 13th and not the 14th...so nevermind.
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Scraptee
Trad climber
Tacoma
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Oct 15, 2009 - 07:46pm PT
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Its amazing that there aren't more issues with the cable climbers. Here are some photos from late June descent after Snake Dike - one of the no-entrance-fee weekends. It was even congested trying to walk down the outside of the cables. No one was moving either direction inside the cables. It was hot and about 1 pm when we went down and there were still hoards heading up the trail, most without water, packs, etc...
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jstan
climber
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Oct 15, 2009 - 08:23pm PT
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Have we become lemmings?
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Karen
Trad climber
So Cal urban sprawl Hell
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Oct 15, 2009 - 08:26pm PT
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I was up there last week with my daughter and we went up Via Ferreta style and wore climbing shoes, there was no way I was going to risk her life.
I asked for your imput on an earlier thread and used what you guys suggested, worked great and both myself and my daughter totally enjoyed the rails with no worries. Lucky for us there was not many peeps up there, but some of the few were definitely sketchy!!!!
There are some very slick sections, way more slick than I remember from years ago after climbing Snake dike.
edit to add:::
the obvious
here is the set-up
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Karen
Trad climber
So Cal urban sprawl Hell
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Oct 16, 2009 - 02:00pm PT
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Finally got around to reading the entire post. Can't people read the above sign? wtf... I don't have a lot of sympathy for people who ignore the obvious, summit fever or not, seems the Darwin award was in full effect.
cynic as I am.............
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