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  2. Yosemite’s Half Dome cables are dangerous. Here’s why they ...

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    The park service publishes extensive information online about how to hike Half Dome safely, including tips for limiting risk on the cables. (The best advice is knowing when to turn around .)

  3. After a young woman falls to her death in Yosemite, Half Dome ...

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    Half Dome's cables have been around for more than a century. The cables are crude and dangerous — and have fascinated adventurous souls from the start.

  4. Tenaya Canyon - Wikipedia

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    Tenaya Canyon is a dramatic and dangerous canyon in Yosemite National Park, California, USA, that runs from the outlet of Tenaya Lake 10 miles down to Yosemite Valley, carrying water in Tenaya Creek through a series of spectacular cascades and pools and thence into a deep canyon below Cloud's Rest, a giant granite mountain adjacent to Half Dome.

  5. Half Dome - Wikipedia

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    Half Dome is a quartz monzonite batholith at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park, California. It is a well-known rock formation in the park ...

  6. Talk:Half Dome - Wikipedia

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    The Half Dome is a granite dome in California's Yosemite National Park, whose summit at elevation 8,844 ft (2,696 m) is more than 4,700 ft (1,400 m) * above the floor of Yosemite Valley. Known to the local Native Americans as "Tis-sa-ack", the dome was first summitted by George G. Anderson in October 1875.

  7. Yosemite’s Half Dome cables are dangerous. Here’s why they ...

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    Opinion by Marek Warszawski: “It’s a wonder more people haven’t died.”

  8. Sierra Nevada Batholith - Wikipedia

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    Half Dome, Yosemite, a classic granite dome of the Sierra Nevada Batholith. The Sierra Nevada Batholith is a large batholith that is approximately 400 miles long and 60-80 miles wide which forms the core of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California, exposed at the surface as granite.

  9. He saw his daughter fall from Half Dome. He says safety ... - AOL

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    Grace Rohloff's death has renewed concerns about the safety of hiking Half Dome in Yosemite, where at least 10 people have died in the last decade.