Half Dome Yosemite

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My First solo 17 mile round trip hike. It was totally different to be just by yourself.You get to see two gorgeous falls enroute (Mist Falls and the Nevada Falls).
Half dome peak is about 8842 feet high and is very popular amongst rock climbers
The best part of the whole trip is the infamous Half Dome cables. The last part of the trail is too steep to climb without hand support and the park service graciously maintains the cables up the last quarter mile to the summit. I'm told this section never gets steeper than 45 degrees, but you can judge for yourself :-). But once you climb up its nothing short of heaven. You forget all the pain and enjoy the gorgoeus steep canyon on the other side of half dome. I even took a short nap at 9000 ft,dreaming of an angel to pick me up and take me down the half dome. But there were no angels in real world and I had to walk back all the way
I met a crazy german guy on my hike up and we talked about his previous hikes to the angel falls in venezuala and the sahara desert in Africa.
I also met a some what crazy local guy named Mike Morris on my way dowm. Got to know about some not so popular but very beautiful trails in Yosemite.He also promised to invite me on his Mt. Whitney Hike next summer (if he remembers me :-))
All in all it was a very exciting trip,started off at 5 AM from home and returned to my sweet bed by 11:00 PM