Edie took this cool shot last night as a fire on the North rim of the Valley dropped sparks and embers down the cliff by Royal Arches. It was so great that it had to be Photo of the Day. I think this is my current favorite photo up on Flickr.
Excellent work Edie. Class A.
Photo by Edie Howe-Byrne via Flickr.
The John Muir Trail between Clark Point and the top of Nevada Fall is closed for the winter.
The Mist Trail to Nevada and Vernal Fall is open.
The Four Mile Trail is closed for the winter just below Union Point. No expected opening date at this time.
The Half Dome cables are down for the season; they are usually installed by the third weekend in May, conditions permitting.
The Alder Creek trail (from Wawona) is closed due to a prescribed fire.
Just got this from the National Park Service. Two school buses from Yolo Middle School in Newman collided in a rear end collision about a mile north of the El Portal Road/Big Oak Flat Road intersection.
Forty children were on board the two buses. Injuries are being described as minor to moderate. The children were transported by ground ambulance to John C. Fremont in Mariposa to make sure they were ok. The cause of the collision is unknown but the investigation is pending.
Our friend Tom Lambert has a post up on his blog, YosemiteExplorer.com about the Royal Arches fire; In a nutshell, a fire was spotted on Monday night at that spot. Speculation is that climbers coming off the Royal Arches route lit it to get warm, and didn’t extinguish it properly.
You can read Tom’s account here:
http://yosemiteexplorer.com/yosemite-news/080507-royal-arches-fire
See his images here:
http://yosemiteexplorer.com/albums/v/pow/royalarchesfire/
There’s a discussion on Supertopo here:
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?topic_id=591178&tn=0
There was a fire on the north rim today, just west of Northdome and slightly east of Royal Arches Cascades. Tonight I noticed the light as I went out for a smoke, went and grabbed my camera and took several shots. Unfortunately I don’t have a wireless release and so had to resort to hand-holding the shutter open on some of the longer shots. The original firefalls were held on the other side of the valley at Glacier Point, and ended in 1968.
More images here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ambitious_wench/sets/72157604946075767/
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