Hiker Light Trails on Half Dome from Mt. Watkins
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.
Around 70 30-second exposures were stacked to produce this. The final light of sunset is visible on the horizon, and it provides the warm glow visible on the face of Half Dome. Climbers are visible on El Capitan and the face of Half Dome, and hikers can be seen on North Dome and the Mirror Lake trail.
Hiker Light Trails on Half Dome from Mt. Watkins
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.
Around 70 30-second exposures were stacked to produce this. The final light of sunset is visible on the horizon, and it provides the warm glow visible on the face of Half Dome. Climbers are visible on El Capitan and the face of Half Dome, and hikers can be seen on North Dome and the Mirror Lake trail.