Re: Waterfall conditions in august?

I am planning to hike halfdome on a thursday in august (yes i know the cables might be crowded, im leaving early) but I dont know how much water will be in the river and falls in the third week of august. what do they usually look like then? pictures?

It can be a bit on the dry side:



http://yosemitephotos.net/main.php/v/yosemite/sh-20061110235352.jpg.html

There should be some water in Vernal and Nevada Falls, but the amount is not possible to predict this time of year. On a wet year, you might have a pretty decent flow.

There are a couple of pics of the falls in early August 2006 in the following album, but that year had a heavy snowpack.
http://www.pbase.com/roberthouse/yosemite_summer

That year, even at the end of October, Vernal was a nice but not huge waterfall, and that might be closer to what you see if it's a dry year:
http://www.pbase.com/roberthouse/image/73832351
http://www.pbase.com/image/73832353


(again, in early August 2006)

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Gary
Yosemite Photo Galleries: http://www.pbase.com/roberthouse/yo

There should be enough to drink(processed by chemical or filtered) in August if that was part of your question. Not much after Little Yosemite Valley.
FF

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I was in and around the valley on Aug 14 2008, and because it was an exceptionally dry year, the falls were really thin or non-existant in some places (the one that is normally visible in the Valley -- Bridalveil?-- was dry) From Sentinal Dome, I could see that Nevada Falls was still running, though.

B