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UPBEAT TIMES, INC. • JULY 2017 • 3 Half Dome: To the Top: Beauty in Every Step by Paul Andrew Doyle, Founder, Publisher & CEO


In the picture above is all three of me. This is how I get the paper done each month. As triplets we know we can positively achieve anything! We are just upstream from the Nature Center at Happy Isles headed toward the Mist Trail below Vernal Fall.


Santa Rosa, CA. ~ My lungs were being used at full capacity when I finally ascended Half Dome


in Yosemite,


California, mid-June of 2017. Gripping the cables with an iron fist, the last 400 feet tested my exhausted legs, but my will and arms were strong. Nine hours into the hike that began at five a.m. from the 4000 foot base of Yosem- ite Valley, I finally reached the peak of Half Dome(I woke up at


three a.m. just


to get there before the crowds). My legs felt like I had tied lead bricks to them just above my


First Fun Facts


Ginger derives its name from a Sanskrit word mean- ing horn-shaped or horn root.


During the Middle Ages, Euro- pean ladies of the royal courts presented ginger to their knights prior to jousts. The ginger was meant to bring the knights luck.


In 1927 Michigan food processor Daniel Gerber’s doctor told him to feed his sick daughter Sally strained peas. Strained baby foods were expensive and only available in pharmacies (and only in limited parts of the coun- try). These facts inspired him to found the Gerber Baby Foods Company.


cles were beginning to ques- tion what it was I was doing. In 1984, I had backpacked up the


Are you having a Good Time Somewhere?


Having an Upbeat Time?


We want to Know! Send us your picture with you or your friends, pets holding a copy the Upbeat Times to: upbeat@upbeattimes.com with your explanation of why you’re there! Remem- ber: it can be taken any- where on Planet Earth! And, always remember to be safe!


I was right here on top!


calves and I was only two miles into the hike from the base of Yosemite Valley. My leg mus-


Yosemite Fall, and camped for two nights in a most brilliant full moon! Camping across the valley opposite Half Dome allowed me to see


climbing


people rock during


the day. Ten they camped half way up the


rock face


hanging over 2000 feet above the val- ley floor! At night you could see their tiny lights flicker- ing and even hear conversations!


On June 9th, I re- turned to the magnifi-


cent valley, but this time it was to take one of the most memo- rable hikes I’ve experienced in


Upbeat Times! 1. Read it!


2. Use it to start BBQ’s. 3. Paper mache’. 4. Table leveler.


5. Cage lining for pets.


upbeat@upbeattimes.com and we might put it in Upbeat!


What’s Yours? “The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.” ~ Steve Maraboli


Our Top 5 usages of


Yosemite to climb Half Dome! We rented a house inside the park just 40 minutes away from the Valley. You want


my life, to this day. It was liter- ally and figuratively Upbeat! Two weeks prior, my very


good friend says, “Hey Paul, the family and I are going to


“Yes!!!” I reply instantaneously! Yosemite is a pleasant seven


hour trip from Santa Rosa, CA. Up at 4 a.m. in Santa Rosa & embarking at 5 a.m., we were in Yosemite Park by two p.m. and began taking pictures. A lot of them! Te half Dome hike be-


gan on a partly cloudy cool 62 degree Friday morning, which was perfect and ide- al for the 5000 foot ascent. Te entire day trip turned out to be 22.24 miles round trip, 9.8 miles straight up stepping stones the size and heights seemingly made for


to go?”


some mythological giants. Oh man, it’s true, as my friend and I discussed, was a master hik- ... continued on page 10


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