One Best Hike: Yosemite's Half Dome. Rick Deutsch

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      Looking for attractions to draw tourists to his Camp Curry, David Curry pressed for an easier route to the top. In 1910 the Sierra Club placed a single rope down Half Dome’s slope and removed the older ropes.

      Ascents continued off and on, depending on the condition of the rope. On August 7, 1915, Arthur “A. C.” Pillsbury led a group of 17 young Stanford students (including 6 women) up the back side of Half Dome. They used the rope remnants from previous explorers, their own rope, and a few of the George Anderson spikes that were still present from his first ascent in 1875. The group improved the route by placing a new half-inch Manila rope from top to bottom. Pillsbury snapped photos and motion pictures on top. He reportedly was suspended by rope to take some of the photos. Pillsbury was a Stanford graduate who had a studio in Yosemite. In his career, he invented key photographic tools, including the circuit panorama, the time-lapse, the microscopic motion picture, the X-ray motion picture, and the underwater motion picture cameras.

Construction of the Cable Route