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Massive Rockfall in Yosemite's Tenaya Canyon

Melensdad

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Rangers are reporting that there was a massive rockfall in Yosemite.

This happened on a rockface adjacent to the famous Half Dome, which is a favorite desitnation for climbers and photographers. Nobody is known to have been injured.

http://www.rockandice.com/lates-news/massive-rockfall-in-yosemite-tenaya-canyon


According to folklore, Chief Tenaya of the Ahwahnechee people cast a curse upon Tenaya Canyon after his son was killed in a skirmish with a battalion attempting to remove the natives from Yosemite Valley.

The canyon is known as the “Bermuda Triangle” of Yosemite due to the mysterious accidents, disappearances and deaths that have occurred there. And on June 14, around 8:00 p.m., another event bolstered the legend.

A cascade of rock tore down the west face of Clouds Rest—a granite shield midway up Tenaya canyon, adjacent to Half Dome—throwing a serpentine cloud of dust into the air.

Dustin Moore, a photographer who was shooting in the area at the time, captured the rockfall from across the canyon.

“It was dead center on Clouds Rest,” Moore told Rock and Ice. According to Moore, the rockfall appeared to have affected the classic, four-star route My Favorite Things (2,700 feet 5.10a)—first climbed by Hannah North, Tom Harper and Tom Malzbender. The extent of the damage is unknown.

“The route was on my list of things to climb,” says Moore.

Clouds Rest has been climbed since the ‘60s, but My Favorite Things is the only well established route up the remote mountain.

There is some video at this link >>> https://vimeo.com/131138970
Same video here >>> http://www.rockandice.com/lates-news/massive-rockfall-in-yosemite-tenaya-canyon
 
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