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Re: How's Yosemite Falls looking these days? May 25, 2009 10:38PM | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 1,942 |
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Get Serious Hot Diggity Dog,
We went down Yosemite Creek and over to Eagle Peak. Camped.
Next day over to Yosemite Falls... and then up back ot Yosemite Creek Trailhead.
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Bob Weaver
Yikes! Has anyone ever gone over Yosemite Falls?
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Bob Weaver
Yikes! Has anyone ever gone over Yosemite Falls? I read about some poor woman who took a dip in the Emerald Pool and went over Vernal Falls (to her death of course). I've read "Over the Edge..." but not "Off the Wall..." yet.
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Bob Weaver
OK sorry. It's better to know of any dangers and be prepared.
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Bill-e-g has the ability to cross high water on the narrowest of logs, the bouncier the better, under the worst conditions.
Here's a short story made long. He, his wife, and I needed to cross the Lyell Fork in the rain, a roaring torrent that would have taken you to downtown Merced. Billy is across this barkless, wet slippery log spanning the fork when his wife and arrive a few minutes after him. We look at the water, the log, the great campsites across the fork, and vacillate.
Billy comes back across, takes his wife's pack across, comes back and takes my pack and waits for us to cross. We decline. He has to return the packs to our side so we can find someplace to camp on the crummy side of the fork. He made twelve crossings on that log in about 10 minutes and loved every minute of it. The next morning we found a less death defying pair of logs side by side a few hundred yards upstream. We all survived.
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Bill-e-g has the ability to cross high water on the narrowest of logs, the bouncier the better, under the worst conditions.
Here's a short story made long. He, his wife, and I needed to cross the Lyell Fork in the rain, a roaring torrent that would have taken you to downtown Merced. Billy is across this barkless, wet slippery log spanning the fork when his wife and arrive a few minutes after him. We look at the water, the log, the great campsites across the fork, and vacillate.
Billy comes back across, takes his wife's pack across, comes back and takes my pack and waits for us to cross. We decline. He has to return the packs to our side so we can find someplace to camp on the crummy side of the fork. He made twelve crossings on that log in about 10 minutes and loved every minute of it. The next morning we found a less death defying pair of logs side by side a few hundred yards upstream. We all survived.
Note to Dale: Intense sensation of déjà vu upon reading the above narration. (Where do we find these people anyway?)
In addition, have taken a fellow from West Virginia along on a few hikes. Dave manages to fall in any rivulet wider than ~16 inches and/or deeper than ~2 inches. He doesn't even need to be trying to cross it - it just needs to be within falling distance of where he is standing. (I wish that I could say that I am exaggerating here.)
Re: How's Yosemite Falls looking these days? May 26, 2009 12:38PM | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 1,882 |
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Bill-e-g has the ability to cross high water on the narrowest of logs, the bouncier the better, under the worst conditions.
Here's a short story made long. He, his wife, and I needed to cross the Lyell Fork in the rain, a roaring torrent that would have taken you to downtown Merced. Billy is across this barkless, wet slippery log spanning the fork when his wife and arrive a few minutes after him. We look at the water, the log, the great campsites across the fork, and vacillate.
Billy comes back across, takes his wife's pack across, comes back and takes my pack and waits for us to cross. We decline. He has to return the packs to our side so we can find someplace to camp on the crummy side of the fork. He made twelve crossings on that log in about 10 minutes and loved every minute of it. The next morning we found a less death defying pair of logs side by side a few hundred yards upstream. We all survived.
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Jim,
Everyone in my circle certainly has a high level respect for them. Dale is from hockey country and could probably hop across on one foot. He's not referred to as "Goat" because of his smell but rather his agility.
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Bob Weaver
OK sorry. It's better to know of any dangers and be prepared.
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Bob Weaver
OK sorry. It's better to know of any dangers and be prepared.
Not sure why you'd get flak for warning people of real, not imagined dangers they may not be aware of. The Death in Yosemite book is full of accounts of people doing things that they thought were fairly innocuous...crossing above a waterfall, posing for photos on a rock in the river, even just filling a water bottle.
Last year I saw a family of 4 crossing the late-March roaring Merced on a log; the kids were about 8-12 in range. I doubt that they realized that a slip would be basically an instant death sentence. People always figure they'll grab onto a branch, log, or rock, but often the current is so strong that it's impossible, or they're over the falls before they even realize what happened. Even two men may have a tough time pulling someone free of a snag in the current, that is, if they find them at all.
Most teenagers, at one point, think they're indestructible, like to show off, and can be expected to take risks, and most survive so they can develop good judgment as they get older...but only due to luck. But someone with a family like the above should at least be aware of what risk they're putting their kids (and even if they fall in themselves, what it will do to the family), so it's good that people know of what's happened to people just like them. I can't even imagine the feeling of crossing a river when it's only due to choice or 'something fun', and seeing one of them go in, knowing that's most likely the end, just instantly, from a single slip. While much of the year, crossing and falling in may be fairly benign, in spring it's not.
I was at Upper Pines taking refuge from a drenching thunderstorm when the SAR vehicles headed up to the bridges for the woman that had fallen in at Vernal Fall on May 18. Having seen the raging river, I already pretty much knew what had happened, and the outcome, which is not unusual this time of year. The SAR crew stayed at all the valley bridges for a few hours, but you could tell they had no hope of finding anything other than a body.
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Gary, Well put on the dangers of rivers in early spring.
I just recently joined and it is nice to see some sanity in this forum.
Is there always so much crass behavior?
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So if you fell into that creek you would go over the falls, right?
No, that's against park regulations.
What if you were in a boat?
Is boating allowed on Yosemite Creek?
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bill-e-g
Here's the toilet bowl ring in all it's gory:
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It's not just a toilet bowl ring. It's also a climbing route:
http://www.exo.net/~pauld/climbing/ViaAqua/viaaqua.html
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In 1969, my first job as a teenager was busboy and line server in the Yosemite Lodge cafeteria. I would go out to the open patio to clear tables as often as I could because I could look up at the magnificent Yosemite Falls. One morning two delightful ladies called me over and asked, "Do they turn off the falls at night?" I quietly thought to myself that people really need to get out of the cities more often.
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