Half Dome

Here we are at the beginning of the 16 mile trek with our headlamps (we began at 1:30 am) The hike was quite steep, especially approaching the huge rock dome - here Rick is coming up the zig-zag steps that are carved into the granite.
There it is... right at sunrise.

You can see a lone climber half-way up the cables where the sun hits.

Beautiful sunrise

There it is... a big stinkin rock. Again, you can see the cables and the climber.

Rick coming up the steep cables

Wow... what a view.

There I am sitting on the "diving board"...

don't worry, its only about 5,000 vertical feet to the valley floor
A beautiful waterfall with a rainbow. We could barely see it on the way up.