A Mountain with Handrails at Yosemite
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A Mountain with Handrails at Yosemite•Problems: crowding; impacts to trails; impacts to attractions
•Management Strategies: limit use•Management Practices: rationing/allocation; rules and regulations; law enforcement
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•Yosemite National Park•1890•A “crown jewel” park•John Muir•1,200 square mile•Sierra Nevada Mountains•Half Dome is legendary in the climbing
community•First technical ascent of the vertical north
face was in 1957 via a route pioneered by Royal Robbins and others
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•Nearly 50 climbing routes today•John Muir Trail to Half Dome Trail•“Cables route”•Cables were installed in 1919 to increase visitation
•400 vertical feet, 100% grade, 9,000 feet above sea level, exposed on all sides
•“Half Dome is the ultimate Yosemite day hike – the one you can’t die without doing, and the on you’re most likely to die while doing.”
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•10-12 demanding hours•Route polished by hiking boots•Altitude sickness•Vertigo•“Everything in my body was shaking. I felt
like I was going to vomit.”•Inadequate preparation•Increasing number of accidents requiring
SAR•Deaths in 1985, 2007, and 2009•Half Dome is in designated wilderness•Mandatory permit system instituted in
2010
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•Use is limited on weekend days to 400 hikers: 300 day hikers and 100 backpacking groups
•No permit necessary on weekdays (2010)
•Cost for permits was $1.50 (plus $5.00 per group processing fee)
•Up to four months in advance•Sold out in 32 minutes•No permit - $5000 fine and/or six months in jail
•Use shifted to weekdays•Weekday permits were required in 2011
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•Permits on Craigslist for as much as $100
•Research on crowding•More than 30 people on the cables – some visitors move outside the cables
•Computer simulation model•This Page Intentionally Left Blank
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•Half Dome: Know Before You Go (6:04)•Hike up Half Dome (6:43)•Yosemite plan means fewer hikers on Half Dome (Associated Press)
•Death on Half Dome: 7/31/2011 (3:49)
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