Yosemite Again!

I know, I can get a hint, it's been a long time! Thank you all for the encouragement. I tend to be of the mind set that if you don't have any thing to say/write, don't say/write anything at all.

But I guess I do have something to say!

We went to Yosemite again!
This time we were able to accomplish a goal we have had for many years. That is to climb Half Dome! And I don't mean via the cable route (I've done that 4 times). Our route was the very popular 'Snake Dike', an 800' 5.7 R, up the side opposite of the cables. (more info here)

The climb was fun although scary several times, as I had the potential to take a 120'+ fall!

We (My Uncle Rick, Brother Willie and myself) all made it up and back in one day, left at 4AM and got back to camp at 8PM! The climb was thrilling, rewarding, invigorating....and very scary!


The red line shows the route. The technical climbing actually ends about half way up, the rest was just walking (3rd class)!

The rest of the trip was very relaxing and enjoyable.

A view from the bottom of the climb

Darrell Gramm, flipping off the rock into Mirror Lake (No, there's no water)

Jack, 'getting some air'

"Catch me!" (OK, so what if I cut Willie's head off, I never said I was a photographer!)

"Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law."

Galations 5:19-22