Last year we did the North Dome hike from Tioga Road and picked a day with too many clouds to get the best photos. I expect we'll try again this year. I was looking at Google Earth to see about going to Basket Dome. I guess there is no trail to it. I found a Youtube video taken from Basket Dome saying it's easy to get there from the saddle on North Dome. Anyone done this? Is it easy? Looks like you would start at the transition between forest and granite where North Dome begins and head east downhill through the forest. Then up Basket Dome which looks sort of steep but I've learned you can't really trust Google Earth as to how doable a hike is.
Chuck
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March 11, 2012 05:26PM |
March 11, 2012 08:56PM |
It's not bad. I swear I answered this query before... but I can't find it.
I thought I even drew a map...
I only found these:
http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,29798
http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,46346
You may be dancing thru the shrub... general rule of thumb... if there is a line of large trees... that is what
you want to stick too... Basket is not THAT steep. There's lots of cracks and pieces o granite
to grip on.
I thought I even drew a map...
I only found these:
http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,29798
http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,46346
You may be dancing thru the shrub... general rule of thumb... if there is a line of large trees... that is what
you want to stick too... Basket is not THAT steep. There's lots of cracks and pieces o granite
to grip on.
March 11, 2012 09:07PM |
Here's a picture to show you just how non-steep you can make it if you want:
March 11, 2012 09:59PM |
March 12, 2012 06:39AM |
To get the shot from NE you have to cross a bit of a gully and more or less get atop of this gem:
(and this is why I eventually gave up going up the gully. THICK MANZ) (my original idea was to hug the dome edge... but
even getting to that was a nightmare... ) (still have yet to attempt it again... not sure I will)
Here's another showing it aint no big thang getting up der:
(don't blame me though if you find otherwise... all my opinions are facts and half been verified)
And one from da top:
By far the best view of Half Dome in the park (I'm yoking) (those statements drive me bonkers)
I do love Starr King poking up there though
Have fun exploring
(and this is why I eventually gave up going up the gully. THICK MANZ) (my original idea was to hug the dome edge... but
even getting to that was a nightmare... ) (still have yet to attempt it again... not sure I will)
Here's another showing it aint no big thang getting up der:
(don't blame me though if you find otherwise... all my opinions are facts and half been verified)
And one from da top:
By far the best view of Half Dome in the park (I'm yoking) (those statements drive me bonkers)
I do love Starr King poking up there though
Have fun exploring
March 12, 2012 10:43AM |
March 12, 2012 11:47AM |
March 12, 2012 05:21PM |
Or you could look here:
http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,51766,51768#msg-51768
(I thought all my "reports" were incomprensible)
*** btw the route I would really go would x up to Z real Indian Rock and then along the ridge and
then just drop right on down to the domage E of Basket... then over to Le Bass-cat ... x over to El Norte...
and back out the trail...
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/12/2012 05:27PM by chick-on.
http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,51766,51768#msg-51768
(I thought all my "reports" were incomprensible)
*** btw the route I would really go would x up to Z real Indian Rock and then along the ridge and
then just drop right on down to the domage E of Basket... then over to Le Bass-cat ... x over to El Norte...
and back out the trail...
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/12/2012 05:27PM by chick-on.
June 29, 2013 05:55PM |
We tried to go to Basket dome last Thursday. It didn't work out. We got to the saddle on the north end of North Dome and headed out into the forest towards Basket Dome. We were immediately swarmed by a million mosquitos and they were biting. We had encountered few mosquitos on the way out there. I don't know what was so special about this area but they were horrible and we weren't prepared for them.
We decided to give it a try anyway but a few hundred feet into the forest it turned into solid manzanita with no easy way through it and it got steep downhill fast. We might have spent a little more time looking for a way through if it hadn't been for the mosquitos.
Looking at the map here:
http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,56267
the green area from the saddle to the base of Basket is mostly manzanita.
I guess there's big difference between what we can do and what some here consider easy.
We decided to give it a try anyway but a few hundred feet into the forest it turned into solid manzanita with no easy way through it and it got steep downhill fast. We might have spent a little more time looking for a way through if it hadn't been for the mosquitos.
Looking at the map here:
http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,56267
the green area from the saddle to the base of Basket is mostly manzanita.
I guess there's big difference between what we can do and what some here consider easy.
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Re: Basket Dome June 29, 2013 08:09PM |
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We tried to go to Basket dome last Thursday. It didn't work out. We got to the saddle on the north end of North Dome and headed out into the forest towards Basket Dome. We were immediately swarmed by a million mosquitos and they were biting. We had encountered few mosquitos on the way out there. I don't know what was so special about this area but they were horrible and we weren't prepared for them.
We decided to give it a try anyway but a few hundred feet into the forest it turned into solid manzanita with no easy way through it and it got steep downhill fast. We might have spent a little more time looking for a way through if it hadn't been for the mosquitos.
Looking at the map here:
http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,56267
the green area from the saddle to the base of Basket is mostly manzanita.
I guess there's big difference between what we can do and what some here consider easy.
No, something is wrong. I don't remember the exact route, but I have done it several times, and the brush wasn't bad. It seems unlikely that it could have become impossible in just a year.
I do remember that we traversed as high as possible beneath the rock face at the beginning, and looked very hard at the terrain before starting down into the vegetation. However, I will e-mail my hiking buddy, and see if he remembers any problem there.
I understand that Chick-on teaches a class called "bush dancing". He has also been there a number of times. Maybe he can comment.
The mosquitoes, well that could be. It's been a funny Spring.
June 29, 2013 09:12PM |
June 30, 2013 09:20AM |
July 01, 2013 07:09AM |
It's not bad. I'm not kidding. Seriously.
Go down to the saddle... and before you climb North Dome itself... zig ENE-ish (it feels ESE though)
One very small bit of shrub to go thru... very small... and you are golden
the rest of the way... if you stay up high... yummy
I'm not pulling yur legs... lookie:
(taken in 2012)
And here's a map made just for you...
if you want to go to the east side... there is a bit of stuff you have to go thru... but again... it's
pretty simple imho. YMMV
once you start up Basket... there's a zillion ways up... if you see a cairn... sheesh
Have fun
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 07/01/2013 07:18AM by chick-on.
Go down to the saddle... and before you climb North Dome itself... zig ENE-ish (it feels ESE though)
One very small bit of shrub to go thru... very small... and you are golden
the rest of the way... if you stay up high... yummy
I'm not pulling yur legs... lookie:
(taken in 2012)
And here's a map made just for you...
if you want to go to the east side... there is a bit of stuff you have to go thru... but again... it's
pretty simple imho. YMMV
once you start up Basket... there's a zillion ways up... if you see a cairn... sheesh
Have fun
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 07/01/2013 07:18AM by chick-on.
July 01, 2013 12:18PM |
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