Effate wrote:
Come on, you're a madman, of course you would! Seriously, I have been up the cables on the back side of Half Dome several times and I am 69 and find it neither technical or strenuous. This is my daughter and a friend from a couple of years ago which you can see a flat stand point where most who hike up there take their turn on that point. This is where the people in the photos are standing.
Compared to the technical requirements of climbing a wall you are correct. But I (and I'm sure the N. Park service) would disagree with your breezy statement that it is not strenuous. If we had a buck for each of the unfortunate folks who underestimated this climb....we would have a large pile of bucks! The traffic jams these people create in the cables can be dangerous and agonizing.