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wally Fox
climber
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Well, I must tell you that Emily was a person who had a lot of experience traveling in the backcountry. An Outward Bound instructor in the beartooth mountain range, she was a beautiful person and showed compassion to all around her. She was not driven by money or ego, only by living her life to its fullest.
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TRAIL MOMMA
Mountain climber
United States
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Jun 16, 2009 - 02:51pm PT
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My heart breaks for the family.
Some believe that we chose our exit prior to birth. I can only hope that mine will have as satisfying enterprise and as beautiful a view.
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Josh Nash
Social climber
riverbank ca
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Jun 16, 2009 - 04:51pm PT
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I second or third what someone said. The cables are scary and slick. They are hard enough with appraoch shoes. I can only imagine what it is like with cross trainers or running shoes.
Crazy...
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Jun 16, 2009 - 10:21pm 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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fourmiletrail
climber
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Jun 17, 2009 - 04:59am PT
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With the present-day popularity of the thing , the park service will either have to remove it , or provide a (high tech upgrade) seperate UP ladder and Down ladder with no slack or raised cable and no loose poles etc as there has always been . It needs to be something like Tom Sawyer's Island (Disneyland) or nothing at all .
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kiwirussell
Boulder climber
London
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Sep 15, 2013 - 09:51am PT
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Having just walked over the dome (now called the o2) in London it got me thinking of when I climbed the half dome. Twice, in 1983 in summer (easy and fun) and in 2003 in winter (still fun but the scariest thing I've done)! I'm not surprised that the half dome has claimed lives as it could easily have been me. We were staying at Wawona Hotel and my wife wasn't well so I decided to drive back to Yosemite valley and reprise my 1983 walk. It was 2.30 by the time I got to the cables and the last person had just descended. I was totally on my own with 2 and a half hours of light. i probably shouldn't have gone up but couldn't stop myself. Half way up i took a breather where there was a 6 inch ledge to rest on and made the mistake of looking down! Not fancying the descent I decided to keep going to the top. It was amazing at the top. 3pm on a lovely sunny day and noone else there but i didn't spend long there as I feared the descent. In fact the descent was easier (as with no poles raising the cables, going up was hard on the arms). I just concentrated 100% but did not look down. I was so euphoric when I got off the cables i practically ran the 10 miles back down to the road. Next time I'll take a torch!
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