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Comment on Webinar on How to Prepare for your Half Dome hike by Mr Half Dome - Rick Deutsch

Mr Half Dome - Rick Deutsch — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:25:03 +0000

Angie – You know anyone in Hollywood????

Comment on Webinar on How to Prepare for your Half Dome hike by Angie

Angie — Thu, 23 May 2013 02:43:18 +0000

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Comment on Yosemite’s Half Dome Cables go up Friday; Still possible to Get a Permit by Dean

Dean — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:09 +0000

Exciting.

Hope everyone takes care, it’s early days, folk should really watch the weather, better to come back another time rather than try to negotiate Half Dome in bad weather.

Can’t wait to come back, August can’t come soon enough – Canada last year was nice, spectacular up at the Plain of the 6 Glaciers, but nowhere is quite like Yosemite.

Comment on Alternative Route to get back from Half Dome in light of recent Yosemite Rockfall by Mr Half Dome - Rick Deutsch

Mr Half Dome - Rick Deutsch — Tue, 21 May 2013 03:52:50 +0000

I agree – you are correct. If you look at the photo, it seems unless they have yellow tape blocking the fall at each end, you could easily scramble over the talus. If not, you have no choice but to go Vernal down. The only info is that they will have it cleared “in a few weeks.” That does seem reasonable – so maybe the second week in June.

I’m sure they are undermanned thus the lack of info. Rec.gov screwed up again…my confirmation sez the refund of cancelled permits is $5. (knotty $8).

Comment on Alternative Route to get back from Half Dome in light of recent Yosemite Rockfall by Maureen L

Maureen L — Tue, 21 May 2013 03:34:50 +0000

thanks very much for this info, and the very nice amended Valley hiking map. triple thanks, in fact.

just to be clear, the rock fall is on the John Muir Trail, not the Mist Trail. (you say it right, but not in your opening sentence.)

going up the Mist Trail, then the gully up to Nevada Falls is a great hike up. but then, as you say, coming down from either Nevada Fall or the full Half Dome Trip, I like to come down the JMT to Clark Point and continue on the JMT until it meets the Mist Trail a few hundred yards above the bridge at with the Vernal Fall views.

I’ve never gone down the Mist Trail beside Vernal Fall, and never plan to do it, but now it looks like I’m stuck if I want to go to Nevada Fall on my trip next week. the two-way traffic scares me, not just because of the trail, but because of the humans who don’t look out enough for each other.

I wonder if they’ll have this stretch of the JMT cleared by the time I do Half Dome in late June.

it’s very difficult to find this on the nps.gov/yose web site.

no alerts like those for road closure are flagged on the main page.

under current conditions and then trails and wilderness,
we have stuff that hasn’t been updated since last fall.
(the JMT section from Clark Point to Nevada Fall is NOT closed indefinitely–that’s the usual winter closure info, not
this rockfall.)

I realize they have a sequester situation, but given how early some folks start on their long hikes, how do they expect folks to plan well?

here’s what the Park says if you search with exactly the right keywords:

Rockfall Closes Portion of John Muir Trail

Due to a rockfall Saturday May 11, the John Muir Trail is currently closed from the junction with the Mist Trail (just above Vernal Fall footbridge) to Clark Point. The John Muir Trail remains open between Clark Point and Nevada Fall and can be accessed from the Mist Trail.