At camp there’s a photo that has been there as long as I can remember. It’s so much a fixture at camp that for the longest time I never really thought of it as a real place or even a place that I could go to. It took on a sort of mythical nature. If you’ve seen Shadowlands, you have an idea of what I’m talking about.The picture is of a shear rock face with a tree in front and then a pool of water in front of that. Below is my poor attempt to photograph it while still in it’s frame.
It wasn’t until recently that I asked Dad where the photo might be of, to which he said Yosemite. I guess I had never really looked at pictures of Yosemite before, but now I’m reasonably sure he’s right. More recently, I ran across Trailspotting and specifically this post. When I saw that picture of the Half Dome, I knew what I wanted to do.
The hike starts at 4000 ft and reaches 8,836 ft, at which point you are nearly a mile above the valley floor. According to Trailspotting you have to hike in the 8 and a half miles and back out in the same day. In my current state of physical unfitness, I think that would be a bit much. My advisor says that there might be a place to camp along the way. I’ll definitely have to do some more research.
I’ve also decided to create a Google map of the places I plan to go.
[Joe]
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