Hiking to Half Dome
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By: Travis Mewhirter It’s when your legs feel more like lead, but your body begins dumping adrenaline—enough to make your arms tingle and palms sweat a bit—that you know you’re close. And my wife, Delaney, and I were close. Close to the most iconic image in a National Park replete with iconic images. It was the mountain you see on so many sweatshirts and tee shirts and posters and Instagram accounts; the one that looks as if it were sheared clean in half. We had always wanted to hike Half Dome, but attaining permits is tough, mostly luck of the draw. And our work schedules—we play beach volleyball professionally, and our season runs roughly from May through October, which also happens to be prime hiking season—have never aligned quite right to make Half Dome a realistic possibility. Yet, there we
By: Travis Mewhirter It’s when your legs feel more like lead, but your body begins dumping adrenaline—enough to make your arms tingle and palms sweat
By: Travis Mewhirter It’s when your legs feel more like lead, but your body begins dumping adrenaline—enough to make your arms tingle and palms sweat
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