However, in three days, you can pack in a ton of adventure, and see some of the biggest highlights of the park such as the ...

2. Half Dome, Yosemite - Half Dome is the pinnacle postcard photo of Yosemite and what the famed “Go Climb A Rock” t-shirts ...

The Half Dome slab---measuring around 200 feet tall by 100 feet wide and 3 to ten feet thick---probably fell off sometime in the late night between between July 2 and 3, when there was heavy ...

Grace Rohloff, 20, was hiking with her father, Jonathan Rohloff, when she tragically died when she fell while hiking the behemoth rock formation, Half Dome, at Yosemite National Park on July 13.

Black bears are also scaling Yosemite’s Half Dome: ... The animals are natural climbers and, unlike people, do not need 425 feet of cable to scale the quartz rock formation’s 46-degree angle.

FRESNO, Calif.—A massive sheet of rock has fallen from the vertical face of the Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, making one of the most popular routes attempted by climbers in North America ...

In 2010, Yosemite began a permitting lottery for visitors to Half Dome, ... Anyone attempting to summit Yosemite National Park’s iconic Half Dome rock formation during the 2000s would have likely ...

Half Dome is a world-renowned 8,800-foot landmark in Yosemite. Learn how the dome was formed, ... igneous rock solidified into granite deep within the Earth and was pushed up under pressure to the ...

Adventurous young student climbs Half-Dome with father, then falls to her death during storm in California’s Yosemite National Park ... The rock formation rises 5,000 feet above the Yosemite ...

Standing at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley, Half Dome rises to an elevation of 8,842 feet. At 87 million years old, the type of granite making up the dome is the youngest plutonic rock in the ...

In 1865, a report declared that the rock formation — at more than 8,800 feet above sea level — was a path that "never will be trodden by human foot." Since then, Half Dome has become a popular ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (WJW) — Loved ones are mourning the death of an Arizona State University student who died falling from the Half Dome rock formation in Yosemite National Park ...