Ten of Yosemite’s Spectacular Falls

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Ten of Yosemite’s Spectacular Falls
May 09, 2009 02:10PM

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Spring is in full force and the shouts of freedom can be heard echoing in the canyons and ravines as the rush of rioting water rejoices in its escape from the clutches of winter. After months of captivity in their high altitude prisons of ice and snow, the May sun is beginning to free the army of melting molecules creating an unstoppable force of splashing, spraying, spinning chaos roaring in the rivers and creeks on their quest to the sea.

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Frank Furter

Re: Ten of Yosemite’s Spectacular Falls
May 10, 2009 11:50AM

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Appropriate to this thread is the following quotation from a reference on place names
(by Richard J. Hartesveldt Yosemite Valley Place Names (1955)
http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/yosemite_valley_place_names/

SIERRA POINT was named in honor of the Sierra Club by Charles A. Bailey in 1897. He had searched for a point from which the five waterfalls (Upper and Lower Yosemite, Illilouette, Vernal and Nevada) could be seen. It was first plotted by triangulation. Impressed by the view, he thought it appropriate to name it in honor of the mountaineering club.

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