Some of you may recall the abandoned trail that leads to the base of Snow Creek Falls.
see: http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,64970
My hiking buddy has always wanted to get close to the cascade itself. On Thursday he was up on the Snow Creek Trail by himself. It was a nice day to look over at the face of Half Dome, with an especially good view of the north buttress adjacent to the face. Usually, the lighting is such that you can't see how far it juts out from the main face.
Anyway, he was up there to get to the cascade itself. Here is an old photo of Snow Creek Falls from the top of Half Dome:
You can see the switchback closest to the falls. Roper says that it is an easy scramble up and left from the cascade to the trail, and he is correct. Getting down there is somewhat harder, especially if you go left instead of right on the way down. My buddy rappelled the middle 1/3 of the left route. The right route would have avoided the rappel, but care and caution are still needed, and having a rope is a great precaution. In any case, it's not something that I would do, but then he is an actual climber...
Alas, the lighting did not make for a good photo of the cascade, which was not running very full anyway.
But one more item got checked off my buddy's bucket list.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/31/2014 08:30AM by wherever.