Tribe/Beck Family blog: Yosemite! + other fun

What does Dallin want to do on his graduation trip? Go and hike Half Dome in Yosemite. We saw this bear right off the side of the road. Someone almost hit it with their car. He was just digging around under the pine tree there for a while. very cool!

We had to walk through some of the big trees in the park

Here we are the morning of the Half Dome hike. Shawn and Sierra hiking up by Vernal Falls. That is the first of two big waterfalls along the trail.

We did a hurried hike because of the threat of rain up on top of Half dome. By the time we got here, the clouds were rolling in and we climbed it at our own risk. You just don't want to be up there during a lighting storm. Lightinging hits Half dome every month of the year. Dallin at the bottom of climb up the cables. Oh yea it poured rain on us...like buckets and swamp the tent so we had to find a cheapy hotel. at least that was dry.

We Dallin and mom made it up to the top. Hanging on to the cables at 45degrees is way steep!
Here Dallin is on top of the world is seems. 2000 ft. to the valley below

I took this pictures right as we go over the edge of the cables. So steep

Yosemite falls in background.

We took this picture out the window! It's my favorite shot of the mountain!

We traveled onto Big Tree state park. We took Dallin here 18 years ago when he was just a wee baby. This is a place everyone needs to see. The trees are just so huge

Dallin at 4 mo, Dallin 18 years

Umm ya, we got a snake. His name is Oscar. He love eat mice and be coiled around your fingers and hands. Sometimes he will give you a kiss like he is doing to Samuel here.