As a counter-point, I’d bring up how the park service built a ranger station and permanent restroom at Little Yosemite Valley on the trail to Half Dome, which is also a wilderness area.

flat section through Little Yosemite Valley near the Merced River. The trail then ventures up the sub dome. When you finally reach the base of the Half Dome, a steep rocky climb finally takes you ...

To the editor: I have climbed Half Dome 13 times ... Running into a bear in Little Yosemite Valley is dangerous (as we did once). Driving to Yosemite is dangerous. Get over it.

The essential gear that Jason Torlano and Zach Milligan used to survive their historic ski descent of Half Dome to the Yosemite Valley floor. When looking through the photos of Jason Torlano and ...

In the middle of Yosemite Village in the deep valley of California's upper Merced ... and to the southwest the totem of Yosemite, Half Dome—but not its oft-pictured side. Rather, it showed ...

On a bright Saturday morning in September a young man is clinging to the face of Half Dome, a sheer 2,130-foot wall of granite in the heart of Yosemite Valley ... freed of the little prison ...

One of the world's largest granite monoliths, El Capitan, along with Half Dome are also located here. Yosemite Valley ... can stroll through the valley's meadows with little elevation gain thanks ...