POSTCARDS FROM THE WEST
A full view of Half Dome
By Christopher Reynolds
Reporting from YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK
May 19, 2013
... You see Half Dome on a century's worth of postcards, on Ansel Adams prints and Sierra Club calendars, on your waiter's name tag at the Wawona Hotel, on the new California driver's licenses.
Yet to me, it seems inexhaustible.
When I visited Yosemite with photographer Mark Boster in late May, we glanced at a few other popular spots, but mostly we chased Half Dome variations. Though we didn't summit the big rock — the climbing cables weren't in place for the season — we saw it from so many directions and elevations that I started thinking of it as the third member of our traveling party
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