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The Half Dome Hike – All of it

1 hour webinar 

Sunday, May 19
     7:02 pm Pacific time

You are invited to a webinar I am hosting on Sunday, May 19 at 7:02 pm Pacific time. I will go over the entire hike up to Half Dome (and back). If you are planning to do the hike, this will orient you to what the hike “is like.” I will pull from my gigabytes of photos to show you what to expect. I’ll point out Points of Interest and secrets most people don’t know. Half Dome repeaters should also attend to refresh their memories (sunrise hike next?). We will have a Q&A at the end.

 We will be using GoToMeeting. To help defray the costs of this webinar, I am asking $8.97 to attend = a latte & muffin. Feed your brain, not your belly. Any Active Duty Military, Reserve, National Guard, Veteran or Retired Military can attend FREE.

Please send payment to my PayPal Account:
ricky.deutsch@gmail.com
(Use PayPal.com – you do not need an account and you can charge to a credit card.) Upon my notification by PayPal, I will send you the link.

Questions on the webinar:

MrHalfDome@gmail.com…

Gang,

This one is real important. You may want to print it out.  You must confirm your Half Dome permits that you got NLT May 20 – just a few weeks away or they will be cancelled and put into the 2-day mini lottery.  If you are not aware, you may be surprised. I hope all 40,000 people read this reminder (fat chance).  OK . .  here is the process.

1. Sign into your account at www.Recreation.gov 
2. Click on the ‘Log-In’ link.
3. Click on the Lottery Applications menu item from the left navigation bar.
4. Review your lottery application by clicking ‘See Details’.
5. If successful, review the Awarded entry date. If you want to keep your reservation, press the ‘Accept’ button.
6. Confirm the Acceptance message.
7. You will be directed to the Permit Order Details page to complete/verify the required information. Completing the required information and confirming the changes will generate a confirmed reservation under your name in the system.
8. Complete the processes and prompts to secure your Permit
   NOTE: The charge of $8.00/per person permit fee must be paid in advance (during this process).
9. Once you have successfully accepted your awarded permit, a confirmation letter from www.Recreation.gov will be emailed to you.
10. Once you have accepted your awarded

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File photo of Vultures doing a Gazelle in.

This is not a joke. A 52-year old woman fell from a cliff in the Pyrenees, France recently. She tumbled  down about 1,000 feet. It was clear she was dead, and rescuers headed down the steep area to her. It took them about 45 minutes to find her. In a scene out of Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller “The Birds,” several Griffon vultures had consumed her entire body.

All that was left were some clothes, shoes and a few bones. Vultures in the area usually have fed on livestock carcasses left by French farmers. Today, regulations prohibit leaving animal carcasses out on the land. They have to be burned. Ironically, farmers aren’t allowed to kill vultures because they are a protected species.

This is the first verified report of a human being actually being eaten by vultures. Now back to those Steller’s Jay’s. The are the most aggressive bird in the park. If you turn your head they will swipe a sandwich right out of your hand. But that’s better than being devoured. Ugh.

Unrelated thought worth quoting: “Everybody have you heard? She’s gonna buy me a mockingbird. And if that mockingbird don’t …