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rbrutonIII t1_j8lj3ak wrote

Reply to comment by jopeters4 in 2 years later, this is still one of the most incredible evenings of my life | Yosemite National Park, CA, USA | [OC] [3710x5565] by CameronKelsey

Yeah, I haven't gone up in the winter the past few years, but it is night and day from Yosemite in the summer. Apart from a situation like this, there's no big crowds to fight. But, half the "amenities" are closed, and it's cold af.

Even in the summer, there's walk-in camping you can get day of. It'll be crowded but you'll be able to throw a tent down somewhere. There are motels and hotels littered up and down the highway before you get into Yosemite as well. Getting the spot you want in the middle of summer might take 6 months, but don't let that keep you away.

I just checked and you can get a campsite for next month in lower pines

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avibomb t1_j8lhrao wrote

Reply to 2 years later, this is still one of the most incredible evenings of my life | Yosemite National Park, CA, USA | [OC] [3710x5565] by CameronKelsey

Everyday I fantasize about climbing this immaculate piece of stone. Right up the left side of this picture. It's my guiding light. Consumes my thoughts at times and strikes fear into my heart. But I will keep my head down and keep working towards that goal. I failed once already. But soon I'll be back. The most awe inspiring thing I've ever see. I broke into tears the first time it came into my view. Thank you for this picture. It's a beautiful image of my favorite place on the planet. Taken at her best.

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Jumpy_Inflation_259 t1_j8lefvu wrote

Reply to comment by Se7en_speed in 2 years later, this is still one of the most incredible evenings of my life | Yosemite National Park, CA, USA | [OC] [3710x5565] by CameronKelsey

Or lie like me and say you have a hiking trip the next day, they let you stay for free in the hiking section.

We truly intended on hiking, but we had a friend that struggled carrying stuff a quarter mile from the car to the site. Didn't want to force 8 miles and 6k elevation change on him the next day.

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Jumpy_Inflation_259 t1_j8le4m5 wrote

Reply to comment by eamus_catuli_ in 2 years later, this is still one of the most incredible evenings of my life | Yosemite National Park, CA, USA | [OC] [3710x5565] by CameronKelsey

Yellowstone is my favorite place on earth, but seeing Yosemite for the first time was truly surreal. Yellowstone is a 10/10, has everything, but it's so spread out. Yosemite is like taking 80% of Yellowstone's beauty and cramming it into 5% of the area.

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RussianBusStop t1_j8ldo70 wrote

Reply to 2 years later, this is still one of the most incredible evenings of my life | Yosemite National Park, CA, USA | [OC] [3710x5565] by CameronKelsey

Guide to the Natural Yosemite Firefall

Hundreds of photographers gather in Yosemite Valley each year for the natural firefall at Horsetail Fall. Why is it called the Yosemite Firefall?

Back in 1872, the owners of the Glacier Point Hotel created a spectacle by pushing an actual bonfire off the edge of the cliff at Glacier Point. The cascade of red-hot embers falling down the cliff looked like a glowing waterfall of light to onlookers below. Although the practice started and stopped several times over the years, by the mid-1900s thousands of people were coming to Yosemite to literally watch the fire fall. This was the original Yosemite firefall.

Eventually, in January of 1968 the director of the National Park Service, George Hartzog, stopped this practice. This man-made event was obviously inconsistent with the park mission to protect the park’s natural wonders. The huge number of spectators were trampling the meadows, and the concessionaires were having to go further and further afield to find enough of their preferred red fir bark to build the fires. Not to mention the fire hazard it created.

Just 5 years after the Yosemite firefall ended in 1973, a talented adventure photographer named Galen Rowell accidentally stumbled across a new firefall-like phenomenon. As he was driving out of the valley on Southside Drive, he spotted a small waterfall off the shoulder of El Capitan that looked molten in the setting sun. He leaped out of his car and ran to the photograph – the first widely-circulated color picture of the natural firefall in Yosemite National Park.

With the image of the falling bonfire at Glacier Point a recent memory, of course the new natural phenomenon has been dubbed the natural Yosemite firefall.

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imnotsoho t1_j8lczr7 wrote

Reply to comment by BraxJohnson in 2 years later, this is still one of the most incredible evenings of my life | Yosemite National Park, CA, USA | [OC] [3710x5565] by CameronKelsey

This is called Firewall. The original, not the manmade version. https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/yosemite-firefall-2023-reservations-17779007.php#:~:text=Feb.%2011%2C%202023%20Updated%3A,flows%20over%20at%20El%20Capitan.&text=As%20the%20popular%20winter%20phenomenon,next%20two%20weekends%20of%20February.

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