Cloud's Rest
So...
Some engineering friends from work had the bright idea to hike Cloud's Rest to catch the sunrise. At night. Last night. Damn engineers!
Cloud's Rest is 9926 feet high (3025 m), the highest point around Yosemite Valley. The world-famous Half Dome is only 4737 feet high (1440 m). The published distance of the hike was 10.5 miles. We completely disagree with this published figure. Using our GPS tracker 10.5 appears to be "as the bird flies" distance, not the distance one needs to hike! 6 hours for the last 3.8 miles to the top just didn't add up!!
It was about 30 degrees fahrenheit (0 C) until the sun rose. And we hiked all the way to the top of Cloud's Rest in the freezing cold. With the only sleep under our belt from Thursday night. And we could have used warmer clothes. It was quite unpleasant. Huddling together for warmth is exciting only when it's not for survival. We are charging our "friend" who planned the trip with pre-meditated attempted murder. That, or it was just a PJ. A very PJ. One in the same?
We began our hike at 9:30pm. We arrived at the top of Cloud's Rest at 6:30 am. We didn't make it back down to Curry Village until 12:30 pm. 15 hours of continuous hiking.
Damn.
I need a beer. And another warm body. That'd be quite nice right now.
Some engineering friends from work had the bright idea to hike Cloud's Rest to catch the sunrise. At night. Last night. Damn engineers!
Cloud's Rest is 9926 feet high (3025 m), the highest point around Yosemite Valley. The world-famous Half Dome is only 4737 feet high (1440 m). The published distance of the hike was 10.5 miles. We completely disagree with this published figure. Using our GPS tracker 10.5 appears to be "as the bird flies" distance, not the distance one needs to hike! 6 hours for the last 3.8 miles to the top just didn't add up!!
It was about 30 degrees fahrenheit (0 C) until the sun rose. And we hiked all the way to the top of Cloud's Rest in the freezing cold. With the only sleep under our belt from Thursday night. And we could have used warmer clothes. It was quite unpleasant. Huddling together for warmth is exciting only when it's not for survival. We are charging our "friend" who planned the trip with pre-meditated attempted murder. That, or it was just a PJ. A very PJ. One in the same?
We began our hike at 9:30pm. We arrived at the top of Cloud's Rest at 6:30 am. We didn't make it back down to Curry Village until 12:30 pm. 15 hours of continuous hiking.
Damn.
I need a beer. And another warm body. That'd be quite nice right now.
posted by sisyphus at 7:35 PM
1 Comments:
Hiking in this weather!! Damn, I'd be huddling by the fire!
Paul
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