by Hikin_Jim » Thu Jun 21, 2007 10:49 pm
When I did Half Dome, I think I'd been warned so much about how scary it was that I actually found it anticlimactic. However, I did it as a backpack, staying in little Yosemite, so we were on the Dome first thing in the AM and didn't have serious crowds. It's the bunching up that scares me. When the body is in dynamic motion, a fall is less likely in my experience. When stopped, the chances generally increase (well, maybe not if you stop on a ledge and clip in, but you know what I mean).
(said while ducking behind a bullet proof shield...) maybe quotas or a "traffic cop" ranger are in order. With something like that where there are scads of people, maybe it's called for.