This morning we did a 5 mile hike with a 1,500 foot elevation gain! It took 4 hours. And it ended at Angel's Landing -where like 6 people have fallen to their death -cuz there is just a chain to hold on to while you scale a 30-40 degree chunk of rock. I only did the first half of the last .5 miles, David could not stomach it and stayed behind for that part.
Out of about the 75 people up there, only TWO of them had the guts to go all the way to the top!
I wore my Moc3s on this and they had good traction. David could not stomach the last part of the climb that I did. He said that when people came back a couple of them were talking about "that redheaded girl with the weird shoes - she's going to fall". Psh! Just because I was "crab-walking" on the parts of the "non-trail" withOUT a chain to hold on to, at a 30 degree angle, off a 1,500 foot high ravine, is no reason to think that I did not have enough traction. I'm just cautious.
On the way out I passed a kid (14ish?) who was barefoot!
Here is a video - not mine - to give you an idea.
Angel's Landing
And here are some photos!
This is to give you an idea of how narrow and steep the "trail was" and there is the chain to hold on to (which some people did NOT hold on to).
Here is what is on the other side of the chain...death!
Here is the part I "crab-walked" across, since there was NOT a chain to hold on to.
I stopped at the last observation point and looked down and took this shot - see that road waaaay down there???
You see those trees on the top of that ridge back there? Ya, there are people up there with those trees. This was taken from the halfway point. And that dark line to the right, that's the "trail".
I was seriously SHOCKED to watch people JOGGING by and not holding on to the chains at all and people out there with their young children! Some of the people who turned back said things like, "My children need their mother/father." Smart people.
Now I am kicking back, drinking a Black Butte Porter, and waiting for a chameleon to mate with my foot!