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Dangerously high above...Yosemite Valley...,on Half Dome...rebuilding a... Stairway to heaven
sfgate.com/San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Saturday, August 24, 2002 | Carl Nolte, Chronicle Staff Writer

Posted on 08/31/2002 10:44:10 AM PDT by American Preservative

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:40:51 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

It is stone masonry in the sky, and the role model here is the Greek builder Archimedes, who said, "Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth."

A trail crew living and working in the Yosemite backcountry is rebuilding a terrifyingly steep granite stairway, moving rocks the size of computer terminals on the shoulder of Half Dome in Yosemite.


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TOPICS: Outdoors; Travel
KEYWORDS: halfdome; yosemite

1 posted on 08/31/2002 10:44:10 AM PDT by American Preservative
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To: American Preservative
I was just there in July before we got married. It was gorgeous in Yosemite!

What brave men they are!
2 posted on 08/31/2002 12:58:56 PM PDT by I_Love_My_Husband
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