YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — Permits soon will be required to scale Half Dome in Yosemite National Park on weekends and holidays. Park officials say so many people have been using the cable ...

Yosemite National Park is really a park in name only ... The park service recommends starting the hike to Half Dome at dawn, a difficult goal for us, as we are driving nearly an hour to the ...

Tesaiyac became Half Dome, the iconic granite peak of the national park. Her husband was transformed ... feet and then descend 4,700 feet. The trail from Yosemite Valley curls around the back ...

Half Dome cables are back up for the 2019 summer hiking season. Yosemite National Park made the announcement on social media Thursday by posting a photo of a helicopter hovering over the granite ...

Yosemite National Park is known for its iconic granite ... over Curry Village at the end of Yosemite Valley. Half Dome requires permits to hike to and is a long, strenuous, 14-plus-mile hike ...

The park service’s Half Dome Cables Trail Study online page explains the need for permits but also provides a good view of what they look like. And here’s information on what to expect on the ...

This underrated Eastern Sierra trail leads to eight pristine alpine lakes tucked between granite peaks and wildflower meadows ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - A bucket list hike atop Yosemite National Park's iconic Half Dome turned deadly for a 20-year-old Arizona State University student after a powerful thunderstorm ...

Known for her fearless spirit, Grace Rohloff was hiking the iconic Half Dome in Yosemite National Park with her father, Jonathan Rohloff, when she lost her footing and slid 250 feet down the ...

Yosemite National Park told SF Gate that it doesn’t keep ... In 2012, the park service began limiting the number of people allowed to hike Half Dome each day by requiring day-hike permits.

a 93-year-old man recently reached the 8,800-foot summit of Half Dome at Yosemite National Park. Everett Kalin, a retired theology professor from Oakland, California, finished the difficult hike ...