Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/09/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Maybe you should read the book "Death in Yosemite" first ;-) Tom is just finishing it and reading parts aloud to me. Watch out for lightning. Good luck! Tina On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 2:00 AM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> wrote: > I have wanted to do the Half Dome hike for a couple of years. It's tough to > schedule since a) our eldest daughter is in college year round and only > comes home briefly every 3 months or so and she really wants to go too (*), > and b) they now require permits to hike the last 400 ft (via cable) and > they > are hard to obtain. > > Well, with luck have it, I have gotten 3 permits for this Wednesday at the > last moment. So we are planning to leave here ~3AM. > > We may or may not make it to the top. We will turn around ~2PM. > Fortunately, > it's just 2 days past full moon so we will have some leeway on the way > down. > > Wish us luck. We do have good hiking boots, and will bring lots of water > and > snacks. > > BUT MOST importantly :-), I will have my camera - most like the XPan II > with > ~7-10 rolls of film. The M9 may be a bit lighter and no film, but I think I > will be kicking myself for not using the panoramic camera. > > Wish us luck!!! I hope we will make it to at least as far as Nevada Fall > and > hopefully to the top of Half Dome. > > (*) She is getting some cold feet with stories of people falling off rocks. > > -- > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> > // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> > // richard's personal photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous > replies in your msgs. ] > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com