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Paul Martzen
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Fresno
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Jan 25, 2012 - 03:55am PT
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Just got an email today from Yosemite on this very topic. You get to tell the park what you think should be done with the cables on Half Dome.
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Long Awaited Half Dome Stewardship Plan Environmental Assessment is Here!
The Half Dome Trail Stewardship Plan Draft Environmental Assessment is now available for public review. Public comments on the plan will be accepted from Tuesday, January 24, 2012, through Thursday, March 15, 2012. The Half Dome Trail Stewardship Plan was developed to address crowded conditions, visitor experience, and safety on the Half Dome Trail and encompasses the two mile section from the John Muir Trail to the summit of Half Dome.
The Preferred Alternative is to keep the cables in place with their current configuration and implement daily use limits of 300 people per day.
Under Alternative E, the park would remove the cable system from Half Dome.
The public review and comment period begins with release of the EA. The document is available for electronic review at http://parkplanning.nps.gov/halfdome. Please submit written comments electronically through the website, or join us at the park's monthly Open House at the Yosemite Valley Visitor Center Auditorium on Wednesday, February 29, 2012, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., to discuss the plan with park staff.
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wahr
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Jan 25, 2012 - 05:57am PT
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just how many bolted routes would be opened up by removing the cables?
not counting the polished hole fest the tourists have chipped out
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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Jan 25, 2012 - 09:50am PT
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Yosemite National Park, Calif. (AP) --
Yosemite National Park officials say lowering the number of permits to Half Dome is the best option for maintaining the wilderness character at the popular hiking spot.
Officials recommended a 300-per-day limit in their draft of the Half Dome Trail Stewardship Plan released Tuesday, following years of study.
Last year, officials instituted a lottery system that allows 400 hikers per day to tackle the 400-foot ascent up the granite shoulder of the dome.
Before that, as many as 1,200 park visitors would attempt the popular hike each day, creating congested and dangerous conditions on the cables that provide handholds on the slick granite.
Public comment on the report will be accepted through March 15.
Other options on the table range from requiring no permits at all to removing the safety cables.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/01/24/state/n151742S47.DTL#ixzz1kTvI3EeQ
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Jan 25, 2012 - 10:09am PT
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I would guess that you might get as many as 4-5 trad routes up that slab with the cables down. There would be a few congested spots. As I recall it should be able to be done without bolted anchors.
Wouldn't having 4-5 bolted sport routes be the same as having the cables?
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