The scenery is indescribably beautiful. Redwoods, giant granite boulders, and sheer rock faces every where you look. We were able to enjoy it a lot, since we had to stop for breaks every five minutes. I’m not exaggerating here; the one thing we didn’t take into account was elevation. The trail was staggeringly steep. Imagine walking up a flight of stairs with 30 lbs of gear on your back for 2.6 miles. This is exactly what the Mist Trail was like. We pass beautiful waterfalls, rock domes and lots of hikers heading down for the day. The trail was stunning; giant steps carved directly into the rock face with dynamite. We were walking right along the edge of a hundred foot drop every step of the day. By the time darkness falls, we have gone exactly 1.3 miles (and 4000 ft vertically). At this point, we weren’t worried. We both had headlamps, so we figured we’d keeping walking until we found the camp. This optimism evaporated as soon as we saw that the trail was just as steep and treacherous ahead as it had been before, only now you couldn’t even see where the edge of the cliff was. We decided that going on would be too dangerous, so we stopped at the only place we could, and little area of dirt and trees among miles of bare granite.
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HHIS I shuold have thought of that!

And I was just wnordenig about that too!

Thanks alot - your asnewr solved all my problems after several days struggling

So excited I found this article as it made thngis much quicker!

You’re a real deep thinker. Tahkns for sharing.

The forum is a brighter place thanks to your posts. Thkans!

Haha. I woke up down today. You’ve ceheerd me up!

You’re the one with the brains here. I’m wathicng for your posts.

I second the above post, with kidnapping as an alternative.