[Leica] Scaling Half Dome on the cables

[leica_r8 at hotmail.com (Aram Langhans)]

Hi Ken. You will enjoy the park.  We will be there the last week in October
camped in Upper Pines. If that is when you are there, drop on by.

Aram

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ken Carney
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 3:47 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Scaling Half Dome on the cables

We're going there for the first time in a couple of weeks - hope the
Porches are gone.  Also that Tioga Pass is open so we can go to Mono Lake.

Ken

On 10/11/2011 12:04 PM, Adam Bridge wrote:
> No, I'm not insane, I didn't do that. My knee would explode and I just
> don't think climbing a 45 degree slope sounds like a lot of fun to me. And
> besides a hand-full of people have fallen this year. None survived.
>
> However, we were parked at Olmsted Point looking across at Half Dome. I
> had hoped to get there a little earlier in the morning but I got engrossed
> in documenting Tioga Pass so the sun was a bit high and there was a touch
> of haze in the air.
>
> I mounted the 560 tele I bought from Doug Herr on an industrial-strength
> fluid-head tripod, locked it down and photographed Half Dome. As I was
> packing up a cluster of about a dozen Porches drove up and I heard one of
> the drives saying that the cables that run up to the top of Half Dome are
> on the left face as viewed from this perspective.
>
> Cool, I thought to myself, I should look when I get home. Which I did.
>
> <http://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/gallery/19446304_NvM63K#1524435664_gDBQqpH>
>
> This is a 1:1 crop sharpened and adjusted in Lightroom. You can make out
> the figures and even the cable stays and perhaps a cable in one location.
> Not too shabby! It's still difficult to focus but I think this is just
> about spot-on.
>
> Comments welcome, of course.
>
> Adam Bridge
>
>
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