Half Dome Light Trails from Clouds Rest 2
Trip timelapse video: vimeo.com/453073583
A few months after my 2016 Half Dome light trail adventure, a Half Dome/hiking fanatic named Griff Joyce emailed my hiking partner Kurt Lawson and asked if we would photograph a group of Griff's friends hiking it four years in the future. I shrugged, assuming that plans would change. Shockingly, they didn't. Griff celebrated his 50th birthday by getting a group of 50 people to hike Half Dome, catch sunset on the top, and hike down at night. Kurt photographed it from our old spot on Mt. Watkins, I hiked four camera bodies up Clouds Rest and photographed it from there, and Matthew Saville hiked to the Cascade Cliffs (near Starr King) for a third angle.
10 15-minute exposures were stacked to produce this. A meteor is visible in the top left, and climbers can be seen camping on the face of El Capitan. I carried four camera setups up the nearly-10,000 ft tall Clouds Rest, but the photos were worth it. My backpack weighed 55 lbs (25 kg), and the vast majority of that was camera gear. I didn't even bother with a tent or stove.
A tighter version of this photo can be viewed at www.flickr.com/photos/geekyrocketguy/50287748546.
Half Dome Light Trails from Clouds Rest 2
Trip timelapse video: vimeo.com/453073583
A few months after my 2016 Half Dome light trail adventure, a Half Dome/hiking fanatic named Griff Joyce emailed my hiking partner Kurt Lawson and asked if we would photograph a group of Griff's friends hiking it four years in the future. I shrugged, assuming that plans would change. Shockingly, they didn't. Griff celebrated his 50th birthday by getting a group of 50 people to hike Half Dome, catch sunset on the top, and hike down at night. Kurt photographed it from our old spot on Mt. Watkins, I hiked four camera bodies up Clouds Rest and photographed it from there, and Matthew Saville hiked to the Cascade Cliffs (near Starr King) for a third angle.
10 15-minute exposures were stacked to produce this. A meteor is visible in the top left, and climbers can be seen camping on the face of El Capitan. I carried four camera setups up the nearly-10,000 ft tall Clouds Rest, but the photos were worth it. My backpack weighed 55 lbs (25 kg), and the vast majority of that was camera gear. I didn't even bother with a tent or stove.
A tighter version of this photo can be viewed at www.flickr.com/photos/geekyrocketguy/50287748546.