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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: It begins
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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: Trail head
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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: The Merced River doing its pretty thing near the start of the trail
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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: The Merced River doing its pretty thing.
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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: Vernal Falls - so many stairs.
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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: Matt at Vernal Falls
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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: 9AM. Hiking uphill since 6AM. Few more hours to go.
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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: Happy Matt at the top of Vernal Falls
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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: Matt at the top of Vernal Falls
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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: Wow, looking down Vernal Falls will give you a touch of vertigo
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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: Matt at ... Nevada Falls?
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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: Matt sucks down water through the CamelBak
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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: Mountain in the distance
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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: First decent view of the rock on the hike up
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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: High altitude = very frequent rest stops to catch breath
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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: Matt and Mel below the sub dome
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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: View from below the sub dome
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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: Matt takes a shot
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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: Matt checks out the view from below the sub dome
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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: View from below the sub dome
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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: View of cliff faces from below the sub dome
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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: Our first really good up-close look at the rock
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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: Matt dwarfs Half Dome
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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: See that rock behind me? Yeah, we climbed that.
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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: Matt takes a break on the final stairs
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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: Resting on the stairmaster sub dome
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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: Matt in the bright sunlight
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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: Matt is so happy to have found a comfortable lounge
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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: The sorest legs in the world take a break on the sub dome
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mormolyke: Hiking (and Climbing) Half Dome: New friends Hope and Laura