I and my fiancee wanted to celebrate our anniversary. We thought to go to half dome for hiking and believe me it was really fun loving thing which I have ever did. In order to go to half dome we had done lots and lots of small hike in and around bay area, California. So we were in perfect shape... more

It took 12 hours to make the round-trip trek from Camp Curry to the summit of Half Dome and back down to Camp Curry. This hike is definitely not for anyone afraid of heights! The scenery is, of course, incredible. Starting up the Mist Trail and going past 2 waterfalls is a breathtaking start to the hike. I did the... more

I have been on a lot of beautiful and strenuous hikes, but this one took the cake. It is awesome. I would say making it to the top of the dome is something you must do once in your life. The view from the top is breath taking. I would recommend getting there by no later than 7am to park... more

After attempting it back in 2005, I finally reached the top on Sept 19th this year with 8 of my friends. We started the hike at 6am (getting there earlier is highly recommended so that you can get a spot in the Happy Isles Trailhead Parking lot). We took Mist Trail going up since it's shorter (although much more strenous... more

We hiked Half Dome Sept 12th, 2008. It was amazing!! By way of background, I'm 50 (agh) and my husband is 53. We were among the "older folks" on the trail. We're both in reasonable shape but to prepare for this we trained with a marathon style training plan. Successively longer walks during the week and then successively longer long... more

Half Dome is a very hard, long, and steep hike. My sister, who runs 4 1/2 miles every day, was sore for a day after hiking. I did not take any extra training to hike Half Dome and i don't run at all but I wasn't sore after the hike. This sounds impossible, but it's not. I simply took a... more

those cables going up to the dome are extremely slippy worst without gloves the surface is also slippy even with new trail shoes. i reccommend going up only with water and leaving backpack below with buddie and take turns going to top. i pulled out two poles on the way up they are not in the holes much maybe 10... more

I whole-heartedly agree with most points in the last two reviews. As you can see from my first attached picture, it is 8.2 miles one way and that does not count the .5 mile walk from the trailhead parking lot, so all in all it will be around 17.4 miles round trip. We started at 7:30am on Monday July 7th... more

This is the hardest hike I have ever done in my life. I left at about 4:30 a.m. to get to the trailhead parking lot by 5:30. There were few spots by then (we went on Wednesday, so on the weekends, it would be full). The sign said that the parking lot was full, but when I got there, it... more