Yosemite - Approaches and Descents

• El Capitan - Lurking Fear and West Face approach photo
  better photo from Crocker Point (from summitpost.org)
  route photo adapted from photo by Bob Burd
• El Capitan - East Ledges topo, shows how to reverse the descent at 5.8
  (topo redrawn by Greg Opland - thanks, Greg!)
  original version
• North Dome Gully
  • topo (4/08)
  • supertopo photo with topo Alts A & B added   see next for original photo
  • North Dome Gully - view from Half Dome
    the line on this photo is pretty accurate
    by Mark Kroese, on supertopo.com
  • Royal Arches to Crest Jewel trail photo; also shows trail to North Dome Gully.
    the angle is not so good for showing the route in the Gully itself.
    (adapted from the photo by John Sheard on p.6 of Yosemite Climber)
  • North Dome Gully - view from top of Washington Column
    line corrected, Alts A&B added, 4/08
    original photo by John Black
• Half Dome - Slabs Approach topo, 3 hour approach via Mirror Lake, when fixed ropes are in place
  NOTE: massive rockfalls in 2006 have made this approach too dangerous to use for awhile. Check back in 2008 or so to see if the cliff section left of Bushido Gully has stabilized, and if winter rains have cleaned off all the loose rock and sand from 2006.
• Sentinel Rock - Chouinard-Herbert and Steck-Salathe'
  verbal description
  view from Five Open Books descent   overlay   plain
  view from rim near Lost Arrow Spire   overlay   plain
• Middle Cathedral - East Buttress - East Face Rappel Route photo overlay
  Middle Cathedral - Kat Walk + Penny Pinnacle rappel route topo + details
  verbal description of full Kat Walk from top of DNB (part of a trip report)
  photo of the East Buttress and Kat Walk,
  photo of Penny Pinnacle and lower rappel in Cathedral Chimney,
  from Karl Baba's trip report
  trip report from mid-90s by Ian Nixon, when he and Evan Bigall got lost on the Kat Walk and rappelled down the Penny Pinnacle rappel route
• Gunsight - detailed descrition summitpost.com