Bummer indeed. But it's not unexpected, given that approx. 3 million people visit the park each year (if I recall correctly), and given the number of people who want to do Half Dome, even if they don't know what they are getting themselves into.
CaT
If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
- Lyndon Johnson, on signing the Wilderness Act into law (1964)
