238: Yosemite Day Trip from Los Angeles to see FIREFALL - Four Mile Trail Viewing Spot
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- čas přidán 1. 07. 2024
- The weather this year in Yosemite has been a bit tricky to witness the annual Firefall (aka Horsetail Fall Event). After seeing a potential clear in the rainy and cloudy weather, Nate & I decided to jump in the car for a crazy day trip to Yosemite National Park to witness this elusive Firefall natural phenomenon. Join us as we head out from Los Angeles to Yosemite for a full day adventure to capture Firefall from Four Mile Trail.
Whether it's Four Mile Trail or the official NPS Firefall viewing area near the El Capitan Picnic Area, I’d definitely encourage you to get there early. Nate & I typically set up shop a couple hours before the light show begins, which can be anywhere from 5:15 to 5:45pm depending on the week you visit. This ensures we nab the spot we want and gives us plenty of time to set up our tripods and enjoy the beauty around us. Now remember, there are several things that need to line up in order to see this natural event.
1. You need to visit mid-to-late February when the setting sun is at the perfect angle.
2. There needs to be enough snow melt for water to flow down the seasonal Horsetail Fall.
3. There needs to be clear skies (at least on the horizon) for the setting sun to shine through.
The last point is probably the trickiest. I’ve experienced perfect conditions all day long which ended up with no Firefall because a few clouds showed up on the horizon at the last minute. On the flip side, there have been times when I’ve been convinced it wouldn’t occur because of the dreary weather, only to have clouds part on the horizon just in the nick of time...which is exactly what happened on our recent visit last week. The water wasn’t flowing quite as heavy as we’ve seen in the past and all of El Capitan was gray for most of the afternoon. Then with only moments left on the clock, pink and orange hues started illuminating the mist from Horsetail Fall...and you could hear echoes of cheering throughout the valley. So much fun!
Fore more information about our day trip adventure from Los Angeles to Yosemite to see Firefall, check out my full Flying Dawn Marie blog post at:
www.flyingdawnmarie.com/new-b...
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Cool video you guys are so great
Love this. Brings back great memories of our road trip from LA to Yosemite back in 2010. Stayed in El Portal, I think at the same place you mentioned, then hiked the Panorama Trail. Amazing trip, amazing place, good time with friends. Bit of a trip from Scotland but hoping to make back with our daughter one day (my wife was pregnant with her when we were there).
Hey! I'll be at Yosemite on March 13th and I can't wait!!! 😃😃 Is there snow in Yosemite now? Thank you and beautiful video
Not really, there’s very minimal snow in Yosemite Valley right now but up in the high country of the Yosemite Wilderness there’s much more snow (hopefully the valley will get a good dusting of snow with the coming storm this weekend..but we’ll have to wait and see if it stays cold enough)❄️
Nice! Are snow chains required in the valley now?
Nice video just want you to know this is not firefalls it is called Horsetail falls. The Firefalls came off of glacier point and was banned sometime In The 60s.
My full blog post actually unpacks that in detail and in my attached video from last year I share the history of the original “Firefall” (our grandparents have many pictures of the Glacier Point Firefall from old visits) I used to solely call this the “Horsetail Fall Natural Phenomenon” as the official park content documented but last year inside the park much of the official signage had shifted to say “Firefall” so I started shifting to “Firefall” and the public seems to understand that more broadly but the origins are very important and I try to include that in all of my full blog posts on my website.🙂