Our trip started with two applications on recreation.gov, each for two hikers at “Half Dome” , a 16.5 mile hike ending with a hand-over-hand cable ascent up to the summit. We each submitted our applications with mere seconds before our plane left the tarmac at EWR. By the time we landed at SFO, one of our applications had beaten the 91% failure rate, which we got the highly anticipated gmail notification for just as we turned our phones off of airplane mode! Cara: “Holy shit… were doing Half Dome. Is that normal?” Tristan: “Definitely not normal, i cant wait” Bucket List: Half Dome ✅ #halfdome #yosemite #nationalpark #hiking #adventure #outdoors #travel