Half Dome - Direct Northwest Face FFA

"This is the call."

I was working in a warehouse that backed up to the interstate in Casper, Wyoming. It was hot and I remember how the dust that hung in the air would start sticking to your skin when you sweat. The job sucked, but that’s what you sign up for when the job description includes “warehouse.” It was a hot afternoon in late June 1993, and I was assembling canoe…