While we are away...: Mom and Dad in the Valley

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Mom and Dad came out and hung out with us for a week or so. We hiked Half dome, climbed Cathedral Peak, hiked around and just enjoyed the valley.... It was a really good week.

Mom and Dad on top of Cathedral Peak. A 3+ mile hike and 800ft of climbing and then 3+miles back out... they were exhausted but they had a blast. Neither of them fell or hung for the entire route (only one little butt push) and there was very little complaining..... They're tough as hell for a couple of 50 year olds.

Mom coming around the summit block on Cathedral Peak.

Uhhhhh...Really?

my wife

Kry on the beach off of Highway 1

Vernal and rainbow

Vernal Falls. When we first arrived in Yos this was a huge waterfall and now it is almost dry. Look very closely at the left side of the water and you can see two people sitting on a rock ledge near the water.

Vernal Falls after the park service turns it off for summer.

WE MADE IT TO THE TOP!!! (of Half Dome). It involves 16miles of hiking and then cables running up the slabs. The cables are steep and there are a lot of people on the usually. Mom and Dad did great. Never would think they are 50....

They did it!

Mom and Kry after coming back down from the cables. YAY!!

The cables are steep and blister hands easily so there is a huge pile of gloves at the base that people leave for the next hiker.

Back down at the base of the cables.

Krystina on top.

mom and dad on the visor.

The view looking straight down to the valley floor from "the visor" of Half dome.

Mom and Dad finishing the cables on to the top of Half dome.

Walking the steep slabs down to the trail, but the view was pretty.

neat green on a sappy pinecone

Mom and Kry on the not so misty Mist Trail.

The Jeffery pines in Yosemite smell like butterscotch or pie...so much you can almost taste it and the smell stays in the nose for a while after a sniff or two. Its a really neat experience and for mom and dad it was quite THE experience :)