Yosemite Valley’s “firefall” astounds park visitors (gallery)

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For 12 minutes at dusk last Saturday, it felt like a supernatural force took over a piece of Yosemite Valley. This weekend, it might happen again. At Horsetail Fall, tucked beneath Cathedral Spires on the shoulder of El Capitan, what looked like the once-epic Yosemite “firefall” suddenly appeared on the dark canyon wall and glowed in phosphorescent reds, oranges and silvers. Conditions could synchronize again over the next week and ignite another big show, with the measured prospects best over the weekend, and then will vanish for the rest of the year. Everything has to be just right. Photographer Lee DeCovnick provided this gallery of photographs of the event, along [...]

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