MARIPOSA COUNTY, Calif. -- Cheers echoed from Half Dome in Yosemite National as 93-year-old Everett Kalin reached the summit earlier this month. The retired professor from Oakland just added the ...

Clinging for life to a cold steel cable, high on a nearly vertical rock face in the Sierra Nevada, the soles of my hiking shoes simply could not find traction. Again and again, as my forearms trembled ...

What do California's most popular national park and a historic landmark in San Francisco have in common? In their 2025 study of America’s most loved hiking trails, outdoor adventure website KÜHL found ...

Half Dome's cables have been around for more than a century. The cables are crude and dangerous — and have fascinated adventurous souls from the start. (Jack Dolan / Los Angeles Times) Clinging for ...

Hikers use cables to make their way toward the Half Dome summit in Yosemite National Park in 2015. (Marc Martin / Los Angeles Times) To the editor: My suggestion for making Half Dome safer is to take ...

Whenever someone dies on Yosemite’s Half Dome while climbing or descending the infamous cables section, I am always surprised. Not surprised it happened. Surprised it doesn’t happen more frequently.

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK -- Yosemite National Park rangers have recently discovered evidence of a black bear's presence on the summit of Half Dome. Rangers say Yosemite bears are excellent climbers and ...

This short but steep half-mile hike up a massive granite dome in California's Sequoia National Park will take you up 6,700 feet of elevation for stunning views.