Wind assisted — Half Dome Prep

We know that we won’t be able to just wake up on September 17th and hike to the top of Half Dome. There will be some prep work involved. We know we need to do plenty of “hill work”  before September.  The plan is to (at some point) do a “double traverse ” of Mission Peak. Meaning, hike to the top from Ohlone side, decend to the Stanford side, then up again and back down the Ohlone side. That will be about 14 miles of hiking and almost 4000 feet of “gain”. Similar to what we will do at Half Dome.

We’ve already been walking the creek trail to break in our new hiking shoes. The weather has been perfect for hiking so on Saturday we decided to try to make it to Mission Peak on Sunday.  A no pressure to finish type hike, considering this was Barb’s  first real test since she ended chemo in December. If we made it to the top, great. If not, no biggie.

Hooked up with Steve, who brought along his dogs and away we went. Turns out that the only thing that would try to keep Barb off the peak was the wind. Never has it been so windy!  A blistering wind. A cutting wind. A very windy wind!  BUT WE MADE IT NONE THE LESS!

Up top and hunkered on the west side away from the wind, we had an apple, banana and granola bar, rested a bit then made our way down.