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Yosemite Falls
[Click on the picture for a larger image.] It is the image of grace and beauty, with a voice of distant thunder. From Cook’s Meadow you can watch as the water clears the brink, hits a ledge, and then...
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Yosemite Falls detail
[Click on the picture for a larger image.] A scattering of tall ponderosa pines, on a ledge opposite the cataract of upper Yosemite Fall.
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Vernal Fall, Yosemite
[Click on the picture for a larger image.] An unmarked path off the Mist Trail leads to this view of Vernal Fall, about a mile out of the Happy Isles trail head.
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Yosemite Falls and the Merced River
[Click on the picture for a larger image.] On this Sunday, ten days ago, the Merced River was brim-full, and the meadows were beginning to turn green with new grass. The valley will become even greener...
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Ribbon Fall, Yosemite
[Click on the picture for a larger image.] You’re looking at the tallest single-leap waterfall in North America. Ribbon Fall, 1,612 feet from brink to base, is one of Yosemite’s spring highlights. It’s...
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Bridalveil Fall, Yosemite Valley
[Click on the picture for a larger image.] That first view of Bridalveil Fall tells me I’ve arrived in Yosemite Valley. I follow Highway 140 up the Merced River canyon. Abruptly, the canyon widens....
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Yosemite Fall, late afternoon, Yosemite Valley
[Click on the picture for a larger image.] In Yosemite, it’s impossible to simply go from Point A to Point B. We had spent the day in Yosemite Valley . . . . . . seeing those special places that are...
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Bridalveil Meadow and Ribbon Fall
[Click on the picture for a larger image.] Yosemite’s meadows create excitement, delight, discovery. For a while, you’re riding within the cover of the forest. Then you emerge into a meadow. Suddenly,...
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On the mist trail in Yosemite
[Click on the picture for a larger image.] It’s the roar, that rocket-engine roar of Vernal Fall . . . It reverberates off the granite. It gets louder with every step. Here, at the beginning of the...
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Vernal Fall from the mist trail
[Click on the picture for a larger image.] I’m surprised I was able to get this image. Here on the aptly-named mist trail, the moisture from the fall comes in gales, in the fall’s rocket-engine roar. I...
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A Waterfall hike: Granite Falls, Washington
[Click on the picture for a larger image.] Yesterday, Granite Falls was a booming cascade that filled its canyon with sound and mist. It’s more than worth the short drive and the even shorter saunter...
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Nevada Fall, Yosemite
[Click on the picture for a larger image.] After coursing through a narrow, granite-walled channel, the Merced River bursts forth into the sunlight, beginning a 600-foot fall of careening white water....
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Cascade Fall, Yosemite
[Click on the picture for a larger image.] Many bypass this fall without knowing it. Cascade Fall is perhaps 500 feet off Highway 140 on the way to and from Yosemite Valley. But it’s tucked in a side...
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From the brink of Vernal Fall, Yosemite
[Click on the picture for a larger image.] The Mist Trail earns its name. The route to the top of Vernal Fall is showered in mist in spring and summer flood. And you get showered as you climb the stone...
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On the Mist Trail, Yosemite — Vernal Fall from 100 yards
Please click on any picture to see a larger image. The previous post takes you to the torrent of the Merced River above Vernal Fall. This post douses you with mist along the misty part of the Mist...
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Yosemite Falls on a late spring afternooon
Thank God for the meadows in Yosemite Valley. It’s the meadows, in general, that provide the views. On Southside Drive in the valley, the road suddenly leaves the forest for the broad expanse of...
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Yosemite Valley, late afternoon
This is just a view on a late-afternoon trip to the grocery store. Yosemite Falls descends above and beyond the forest. Just ahead, Stoneman Bridge crosses the Merced River.
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In Cook’s meadow on a spring afternoon.
In Yosemite Valley, the meadows provide the views. So it is with Cook’s meadow, stretching to near the base of Yosemite Falls.
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