Keep Climbing

A few days of hiking, biking, fly fishing or rock climbing in Yosemite National Park are a good antidote to urban stress. Check out the fall packages at Evergreen...

There are 13 waterfalls in Yosemite National Park. Of those 13, only 4 are accessible by trail. Spring is the best time to see the falls, as the winter ice is melting away and the water comes crashing down.Yosemite FallsYosemite Fall...

Yosemite, CA

planned rope jump is an expensive hobby though, as after one of those drops you can't use that rope again - and that kind of rope is expensive. Free soloing is not quite as dangerous as it looks - only one confirmed death in Yosemite, where its practiced quite a lot. The trick is that these guys will run the exact same route lots of times with a rope until they know the entire route by memory. Of course, rock is unstable and even the best make a timing mistake once in a blue moon. Then you fall and die. No thanks.

Amy's brother Brian and his wife Jill are in town, so we took them to Yosemite.