rock silde 5 hours ago in Yosemite valley

[John Kasaian]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...hurt-in-s.html

[John Kasaian]

oOps! I got the time wrong---apparently the slide was this morning around 7:00AM.

[Bruce Watson]

IIRC, John Muir was in the valley during an earth quake which resulted in lots of rock slides (he was actually the first to suggest that that's how the big rock piles came into being -- from earthquakes, not glaciation). His response of course was to go scrambling up the new rock piles before they even got settled. I suspect that he was an adrenalin junkie.

Rock falls and slides are a fact of life in a valley like this. Every time I visit the mountains I count myself lucky to avoid accidents like rock falls. But I keep going back. The risk is small while the rewards are quite large indeed.

[Vaughn]

Must be global warming

Good that no one was hurt this time.

I was sitting on the edge of the Abyss, a 1000' vertical drop on the edge of the Grand Canyon, looking down at the Tonto Trail I was hiking on a few days earlier. I saw a chunk of rock fall off the top of the Abyss -- probably the size of a pick-up truck -- it fell straight down, then roared across the Tonto Plateau (which the trail runs along) easily going well over 100 MPH. Too fast for anyone to get out of the way of. Impressive. I was lucky to see it -- and lucky by a few days not to be seeing it from an unfortunate point of view.

Vaughn

[David Karp]

I was there once when a "small" slide happened. It was loud! Lots of dust in the air. Pretty scary, even though I was pretty far away.

We missed the big one in the late 90's by a day. Glad for that.

My family did not get to go to Yosemite this summer for the first time in years. I sure miss it. (But we did go last winter - Maybe this one too?)

[shmoo]

It's such a wonderful time of the year to be in Yosemite Valley, too. I'm just glad that no one was killed in this slide...although it was awfully close to some pretty populated areas.

[Alan Davenport]

Glad no one was hurt.

I think Yellowstone still holds the record.

[Frank Petronio]

It's GW Bush's fault

[Greg Lockrey]

It's GW Bush's fault

Not supposed to get political....

Isn't there a big volcano there waiting to explode?

[David Karp]

Isn't there a big volcano there waiting to explode?

Nope. That is Yellowstone.