>>please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to<< tlc's waterfalls

nature kicked our ass
I just came back from a three day trip at Yosemite. I'd never been camping before and i must say it was really really enjoyable. The four of us- Chris, Alex, James and I - sort of had an ongoing nature battle. I think nature beat us most of the time, what with the fire not starting the first night and then realizing that we didn't have the raft on the day we were planning to tame the Merced River.

i kicked back
On our final day we decided we wanted to hike up to the top of Half Dome. Most people do it in two days, but we decided we'd go all the way up and back down in one day. We had to get up at 5:30am and after packing up the campsite, we were on the trail by 7am. It was a killer hike (16.4 mi total) and i don't think i've ever walked that much in one day in my whole life (I'm still pretty sore). Alex and I reached the base of the ladder around 1:00pm after a half hour lunch break with Chris and Alex around 11am. We rested at the base for about half an hour where i mentally prepared myself. Grr, i just wanted to scale that granite so badly. We kicked nature's ass =D

I'm having the pictures developed tomorrow.