Rick Deutsch

One Best Hike: Yosemite's Half Dome (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Successfully hike Yosemite's most famous landmark with the guide that helps you prepare and provides the details you need to know.



Getting to the top of Yosemite National Park's Half Dome in California is one of America's epic day hikes. Starting in Yosemite Valley, you'll ascend nearly one vertical mile past two impressive waterfalls, through fragrant pine, fir, and cedar forests, then 425 feet up sheer granite on the famed steel cables to the summit, where you'll enjoy some of the grandest views of your life. If you do it right, you'll be back down in the valley, celebrating your accomplishment, later that evening.



While tremendously rewarding, this hike is also one of the park's most strenuous. Here's everything you need to know to successfully make the 15-plus-mile trek. This step-by-step guidebook by Rick Deutsch tells you exactly how to hit the trail with confidence.



Inside you'll find:

• Detailed, specific advice on the proper physical conditioning
• Trail-tested list of what to wear and bring on the hike
• Historical vignettes and 18 key points of interest along the trail, with GPS markers
• More than 100 photos so you know what to expect

One Best Hike: Yosemite's Half Dome, with its can-do approach, nuts-and-bolts advice, and practical tips, will leave you wondering why you've waited so long to embark on this truly special hiking adventure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilderness Press
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780899976969
• Artikelnr.: 38236914

Autorenporträt

Rick Deutsch has lived the Carpe Diem lifestyle, enjoying adventure travel worldwide. He's hiked in many rewarding places including the Galapagos, Machu Picchu, the Great Wall of China, Mt. Fuji and the Pyramids. Some of Rick's other "personal bests" include summiting California's Mount Whitney, hiking Mount Shasta, rafting through the Grand Canyon, bicycling the 500-mile Iowa cross-state bike tour, mountain biking in Utah, dog sledding in Alaska, and over 250 scuba dives in such exotic locales as the Caribbean, Papua New Guinea, Palau and Truk Lagoon.

His proudest achievement is his 30 hikes up to the top Half Dome, the granite monolith symbol of Yosemite National Park. He's written the best selling book, 1st edition of One Best Hike: Yosemite's Half Dome.

Rick gives motivational speeches and lectures on hiking at museums, libraries, colleges, outfitters, cruise ships and to civic groups

Inhaltsangabe

FOREWORD
PREFACE
1 INTRODUCTION
2 GEOLOGY OF YOSEMITE AND HALF DOME
3 HUMANS IN YOSEMITE
4 THE ASCENT OF HALF DOME
5 PRECUATIONS
6 GETTING THERE
7 PREPARATION
8 THE HIKE
* POI 1: Mileage Marker Sign
* POI 2: Vernal Fall Bridge
* POI 3: Top of Vernal Fall
* POI 4: Silver Apron Bridge
* POI 5: Mist Trail-JMT Junction
* POI 6: Little Yosemite Valley
* POI 7: Half Dome-JMT Split
* POI 8: The Little Spring
* POI 9: Base of Sub Dome
* POI 10: Base of the Cables
* POI 11: Apex of Half Dome
* POI 12: The Little Spring-again
* POI 13: Little Yosemite Valley-again
* POI 14: Mist Trail-JMT Junction-again
* POI 15: Nevada Fall Bridge
* POI 16: Clark Point
* POI 17: Vernal Fall Bridge-again
* POI 18: Mileage Marker Sign-again
EPILOGUE
APPENDIX 1: Key Dates in Yosemite and Half Dome History
APPENDIX 2: Preventive Search and Rescue Tips
APPENDIX 3: Half Dome Hiking Accidents
APPENDIX 4: References and Information Sources
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
INDEX