The crowds were just massive, and I'm not tall enough to see over many folks.

CNN: April 6, 2012 -- Updated 1147 GMT (1947 HKT)

There is a massive, wraparound glass staircase, and dropping down from the 24-foot-tall ceiling is a 12-foot-long "found art" light sculpture made by a local artist with steel rods and old trumpets, toy train tracks and parts of old pistons.

WSJ: The House With a Surprise Inside

That would be the Nose: the 3, 000-foot-tall prow where El Capitan's two massive walls meet the sum of all my hopes and fears on this evening.

WSJ: El Capitan's Nose in a Day | By Michael J. Ybarra