Yosemite questions

Thanks for the tips!

Sure. Start posting questions and I am sure a lot of people will help you out.

Get a copy of this guidebook and many of your questions will be answered:

http://www.supertopo.com/packs/yofreeclimbs.html
https://www.amazon.com/Rock-Climbing-Yosemite-Valley-Climbs/dp/1467596922

You could hire a guide. This is the only authorized guide service in Yosemite, as far as I know:

https://www.travelyosemite.com/things-to-do/rock-climbing/

Looks like you just started climbing about 2 months ago. I would highly, highly recommend hiring a guide. You’ll get way more out of your trip, your chances of an epic are dramatically reduced, and you won’t hold up a crowd behind you on After Six or another moderate. You can probably rent a bouldering pad easily in Fresno but climbing gear in general is fairly hard to rent due to liability.

Seriously, hire a guide.

I believe the only gear you can rent in the valley is from the mountain school and they will rent you shoes and crash pads. Not sure if they rent harnesses unless you hire a guide. If you get a guide ask for Aaron. He is really good, but really all the guides there are good. In the summer most of the guides move up to Tuolumne Meadows. It is way better for temps and also really pretty. It also, is a lot more beginner friendly. Not as slick and glacier polished.

If you're hoping to rent ropes and hardware that is probably not going to be possible. Between your profile and the one or two questions that you've asked, you seem pretty new to this whole game, is that right? If so, hiring a guide wouldn't hurt, and it might not hurt to do gain as much experience as you can before you come out, or maybe even hold off on the trip until you've done a little more climbing. Even if you hire a guide, being able to climb a little harder will give you more climbs to choose from, and let you enjoy the climbs more.

Where do you plan on staying in Yosemite? When exactly do you plan on being there?  Hotel rooms in the park are expensive and hard to come by, and campsites are very hard to find during prime climbing season. Staying outside the park and driving in each day is doable, but the time spent driving will cut into your climbing time, and just finding a place to park can be difficult.

April, I saw you quoted my post but didn’t post anything else. Do you have any other questions I or anyone else can answer? I’m not trying to squash your stoke; we were all beginners once. If you were coming to my neck of the woods I’d be happy to play guide and take you out for a day myself. Yosemite is an amazing place and the Sierra are well worth a long visit (or hundred long visits) even without climbing. Have a great trip.