Half Dome

Doantam, Neel, Bennett, Ron, and I climbed Half Dome in Yosemite Valley to cap off the school year. The Half Dome trail is a 17 mile hike with a gain of 5000 feet of elevation, passes by two gorgeous waterfalls and a forest, and ends with a 900 foot ascension up a pair of cables. This was my second time up Half Dome, and I still thought it was every bit as awesome as the first time. Here's part of our adventure.

Doantam plays Rambo	Bennett & Ron pre-ten-hours-of-hiking	The crew checks out how far away the top is
Bottom of Vernal Fall	Ron could be in a Gatorade commercial	Bennett and half of Doantam admire the rushing water
We ascend the steps next to Vernal Falls	The mist is all created by the force of the waterfall	We are lucky enough to stumble on a rainbow
Desktop wallpaper	Neel and Bennett flex their manly muscles	We climb still more stairs on the trail
Vernal Falls from the top. (After this, my battery starting running low, and I stopped taking pictures until we reached the top.)	View from the top of Half Dome. Here we're looking straight down over the edge.	Doantam's a smart guy and stays at least a foot away from the edge
Oh, that was Bennett behind Doantam!	V for Victory!	Chilling
Doantam models his S45	Looking cool