Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Another one of my mountaineering pipe dreams

Me looking at Half Dome from Glacier Point click it for the full effect!

Alright, I have decided that I will climb the northwest face of Half Dome in Yosemite. The Route I want to take goes strait up the most vertical side of it. It is a little over 8800ft and the actual dome by itself is 2000 vertical feet. This translates into a 2 day climb with 24 pitches (sections). When I went there the summer before last, I saw this gigantic, granite monolith as more of a scene out of an IMAX film, and not something I would ever see myself doing, but ever since I've started climbing again, I've begun to realize that this is something I can see myself doing in a very real since! Dream it, Think it Do it!

-Mark

This is the last 2000ft of the route

1 comment:

Sarah said...

Three things:

1) You have some serious trouble with homophones Mark, but it makes me smile.

2) Pipe dreams are better than no dreams at all.

3) Can I go with you? (But then again, I might be too scared...you know how well I climb trees.)

-Sarah