They did it!!!

Yesterday afternoon my husband and oldest daughter took off for a father-daughter adventure to Yosemite. They've been training to climb Half Dome, and today they did it! Thanks to the kindness of a stranger with a blackberry, I even have a picture to prove that Madelaine was there:

The hike is 16.4 miles from the valley floor and back, and the cables at the end that head up the side of the mountain are...shall we say...daunting... if you have any feelings about heights at all.

Here is a picture from the same hike, taken by my sons earlier this summer:

Those look like ants, but they are full-sized people climbing the cables to the top of the dome. Wowza.

The hikers get home tomorrow, and a celebration is in order.