Yosemite And Sequoia Vacation

Here we are at the Sequoia National Forest, the trees are bigger than life and they look beautiful in the sunlight. Their bark is reddish and just glows.

Way at the bottom are Clara and I..

This is Half dome... it is huge, we planned to hike up it 8900 ft elevation and 16 mile round trip...

This is part way up, after traversing very misty waterfalls and climbing hundreds of granite steps.

This is us at the SUMMIT! Ryan, Katie, Jeff, Liz and Lauren Woohoooo!

Half dome is behind us in the cloud above Katie's head. Yes in a cloud!

Next to the sign we are at the bottom. We climbed half dome with the cables down, meaning we had to hold up the cables in our hands and we harnessed up and used a prussix to keep us from falling should we slip off the 45 degree granite incline. The cables weren't up yet because there was still snow on the subdome, and we had to at times walk up the snow because the last of the granite steps were covered in snow.