Amazing View at Yosemite

We have just returned from three days in Yosemite and we have seen amazing view after amazing view: vistas, waterfalls far away and up close enough to stand in their mist, deer so close we could almost touch them. We have people watched too ~ it is the beginning of the summer season and the park was beginning to be crowded with families of all shapes and sizes. We also heard a wide variety of languages ~ it really is an international destination. And of all of these experiences, this is the one that impressed me the most:

See the little red oval? It surrounds a human being doing a three day climb up the side of that rock. When you do this, you take a little lantern and a net hammock that becomes your bed at night. People say they can see the lights scattered across the face of the rock later in the summer. We think this person was alone up there. If you can increase the size of the picture a bit, you can tell it really is a human. Truly amazing ~ brave, just a little stupid (but that's my opinion), talented and skillful. Blessings to all who climb or do other feats of physical prowess this summer.