By Amy Tang

Golden hour in Point San Pablo

A month ago and I were able to climb up Half Dome in after finding out we won the daily lottery. We weren’t expecting it at all knowing that we missed the preseason lottery and winning the daily one was only a success rate of around 20% (to put it in perspective, 35,000+ applications are submitted). So we were elated when our plans had such an exciting turn of events.

We ended up hiking Half Dome on the first day of our week in Yosemite. The entire hike was 16 miles, 12 hours and about 5,000 ft in elevation; the best part being the final ascent - a 400 ft vertical climb on slick granite at a 45 degree angle and 60 in the middle.

The views were undoubtedly incredible, our muscles sore and post hike drinks delicious 🍻 more from the day in stories

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