Isn’t part of the wilderness experience taking and assuming risks associated with outdoor activities such as climbing Half Dome?
When we install and maintain a structure or facility, such as the Half Dome cables, we have a responsibility to ensure that structure or facility is safe. The number of people hiking to Half Dome, and thus using the cables, has steadily increased over the last 20 years. The cables constrain the flow of hikers both up to and down from the summit more than any other part of the route to the top. Having this limit is similar to ensuring that the safe capacity of our theater or busses is not exceeded.
